NewsCred: Credibility Ranking at its Best?

Newscr… nope.

Newscre…e… nope. One more time

Newscre…e….e….e…d! Finally got it out. Newscred [crunchbase] is a ‘News’ aggregator that was founded in July ‘07 and came out in private alpha testing May ‘08, then finally released a public beta in August ‘08. Its a very simple service. The idea of it is to rank newspapers and blogs based on credibility. You see an article, you read it, and you rate whether you think the article is credible or not. This vote later affects the credibility ranking of the author who wrote the article as well as the source.

What You got in that OtherInbox?

As Joshua Baer put in OtherInbox’s Techcrunch50 presentation, we all have that other inbox that we send certain things to so it doesn’t show up in our work email account. One of the most annoying things is to have a list of emails that you just don’t want. OtherInbox is a great way to control these emails. After using OtherInbox for a few months, I’ve decided its become such an important part of the way I work, that I want to do a complete review of it.

AlertThingy: Upgrade? You Decide

I am currently sitting in front of 2 monitors and a laptop. On one screen I have Windows Live Writer, and the other screen is equally divided between ‘Alert Thingy v2’ and ‘Alert Thingy for Friendfeed’, while my laptop holds the old version of Alert Thingy. These 3 applications hold most of my entire online presence, all beeping at me every 2 minutes with a nice popup in the lower right hand corner of the screen. These are the tools I use everyday in order to stalk.. err… I mean ‘follow’ you guys. So lets dive right in!

Die Embargo

 

Michael Arrington is fed up with PR firms and Embargos (The request that information not be posted until a certain time/date), and I fully agree with him. As he describes in this Techcrunch post, the most annoying thing for a news site is if another site breaks the embargo.  Instead of producing better content than the competition, sites will break embargos 5-10 minutes early to grab the spot on TechMeme and Google News, leading to more displayed advertising. 

Now doesn’t that sound stupid?

Say Goodbye to the Cycle of Apple

In a story spreading faster than California’s Wildfires, Apple has recently annouced that Macworld Expo 2009 will be its last. And if you thought that Steve Jobs would be there for the last ‘Hoorah!’… you will only be met by the fact that Apple will be sending Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. Many people asked whether the lack of Steve Jobs at the keynote would be related to his health, but as Techcrunch points out, this is probably just because they want to lower expectations