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Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 11, 2008 3:30 PM

RSS and syndication are the veins that the new social web flows through. Countless products and services have been built on top of RSS in the past few years but there are always a few that stand above the rest.

As part of this year's Top 10 Products series, we offer below the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008. These are the feed tools we and the people we know use day in and day out - we love them, we hate them, we wouldn't want to work without them.

Greasemonkey: The 7 Best New Browser Tweaks and How to Use Them

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / December 8, 2008 2:19 PM

Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox extension that allows users to change the layout and functionality of web pages. Every month hundreds of people write and release Greasemonkey "scripts" that anyone can add to their browser with a single click.

A good Greasemonkey script will change your daily use of the web in ways you can't imagine being without. In the post below we highlight our seven favorite scripts published in the last month and offer a quick screencast that will show you how to use Greasemonkey in less than 5 minutes.

VideoSurf Adds Film Strips to Videos in Your Search Results

By Frederic Lardinois / November 11, 2008 11:04 AM

videosurf_logo_nov08.pngSearch engines are great at retrieving textual information, but even though a lot of search results today are actually videos, most search engines still only display a text link to those videos. A new Greasemonkey script from VideoSurf changes this by adding small film strips to every video that appears in your search results on Google and Yahoo, as well as to every video on YouTube's search results page.

Five Great Delicious Hacks, in Five Minutes, for Delicious's 5th Birthday

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / November 6, 2008 11:59 AM

Popular social bookmarking service Delicious says today is its 5th birthday. While this author was disappointing several years ago that it was Yahoo and not the Library of Congress that acquired the company, Delicious remains one of the most powerful and useful services on the web.

To mark its big day, we offer below two videos. The first an introduction to the tool for readers still unfamiliar and the second a screencast demonstrating just how easy and useful it is to make 5 changes to your Delicious experience. Those changes took us under 5 minutes.

Memorandum Colors: X-Ray Glasses for Political Bias in Blogs

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 10, 2008 10:50 AM

Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio and Del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter have released a project called Memeorandum Colors. It's an easy-to-install Greasemonkey plug-in that shows the political bias of past linking behavior on blogs aggregated by Memeorandum, the political sister-site of tech aggregator Techmeme.

In this heated election season, Memeorandum is a huge asset for following politics online, but it's hard for the casual observer to get the most out of the conversation by merely visiting the site. Memeorandum Colors adds a whole new layer of clarity and sophistication to the site by color-coding algorithmically categorized liberal and conservative blogs.

Greasemetal: Greasemonkey for Google Chrome

By Frederic Lardinois / September 9, 2008 9:16 PM

chrome_logo_2.jpgWhile Google only announced its own browser last Tuesday and did not include an API in this first release that would allow developers to create extensions for it, Japanese developer Kazuho Oku found a way to run userscripts on Google Chrome. While its functionality is still limited, Greasemetal is already showing a lot of promise and works exactly as advertised, even though it is not compatible with all Greasemonkey scripts yet.

How to: Start Using Greasemonkey in Under 5 Minutes

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 25, 2008 2:37 PM

Greasemonkey is a powerful Firefox add-on that lets you change the appearance and functionality of almost any page on the web. Most people don't know how to write Javascript, though, so we end up using the Greasemonkey scripts developed by other people who do. There are lots and lots of scripts that have been written and they are fun, useful and easy to run.

It's been downloaded 9 million times, but we believe many people still haven't heard of or taken the time to learn how to use Greasemonkey. So we recorded a 4 minute screencast showing you how to use the program and some things we like to do with it.

GreasePocket: Greasemonkey for the iPhone

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 4, 2008 11:04 AM

We love us some Greasemonkey, the Firefox plug-in that lets users run simple scripts on top of their favorite web pages to add new functionality or remove unwanted distractions. At first blush Greasemonkey might seem more technical than many users feel comfortable with, but running the scripts is really just like adding a plug-in to a plug-in. Give it a try with Gina Trapani's Better Gmail 2, the top social media scripts we wrote about in May or Hao Chen's awesome FriendFeed scripts.

But what about the iPhone? Greasemonkey on the iPhone would be the ultimate interface hack for what's got to be the best interface available today. Enter GreasePocket, an experimental effort to provide just that.

Add Profiles to FriendFeed and Extend Your Twitter Profile

By Corvida / July 6, 2008 11:33 AM

Micro-blogging darling Twitter and the charming aggregation site FriendFeed are missing one huge thing that most users don't mind overlooking: profiles. While, it really isn't a big deal profiles can be helpful when determining whether or not to add someone as a friend. So if you've been missing those features, here's a way to add a profile to FriendFeed and extend your Twitter profile.

Next Gen Apps Won't Be Pushed Around By the Browser

By Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 20, 2008 2:46 PM

rainbowpic.jpgThe invention of the browser was a huge boon to the internet and a substantial amount of computing now goes on through that interface we've grown to love. The internet is not a place where innovation takes a break, though, and a new generation of applications are emerging that have a different relationship with the web browser.

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