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Readability & TBuzz

Readability, from Arc90, removes the clutter from busy Web pages, making them much easier to read. On the Readability website, set your preferences for how you’d like to view web pages – font size, margin and page style. Then add the customized bookmarklet to your browser’s toolbar. When you come upon a cluttered page, click [...]

Twitter Fantastico

Twitter Fantastico is a  great set of Greasemonkey scripts adding some nifty features to Twitter. I was looking for something that would add a “retweet this” button to the end of tweets. I found that and more! Twitter Fantastico: highlights your tweets highlights @ replies adds ‘retweet this’ button opens a reply box right below [...]

Qwitter: Catches Twitter Quitters

Qwitter does one thing – it tells you when someone has dropped you on twitter. And it tells you the last post you wrote before they dropped you. Kind like a best friend who finds out why your other best friend is mad at you. Wonderful little tools like this remind me of certain kitchen [...]

What are you doing? Twitter what?

I have to admit to a love-hate relationship with Twitter, the microblogging “what are you doing?” tool that many people are, shall we say, twittering about. Some days I love being tuned into all the goings on in my community there, other days, I just need to tune out. 140 characters, enough to say where [...]

Twitter explained in 2.5 minutes

Commoncraft does it again. Twitter in Plain English is a great explanation of why Twitter is so popular. What are YOU doing? 140 characters or less please.

Travel info chatter and a twitter mashup

While looking at some travel sites earlier today, I ran across an interesting airport chatter service at flightstats.com Use this service to find out what’s happening now at your airport(s) and to share your observations with fellow travelers. Chatter topics include security wait times, traffic conditions, tips on airport services, incidents, ground transportation, customs/immigration experiences, [...]