Ever needed secure access to your home or workplace without annoying your network administrator or dealing with your confusing wireless router? Ever wanted to access your Mom’s computer in order to show her how to save a favorite? or have you ever just wanted a highly secure, reliable way of accessing multiple networks efficiently?
Good news for users of the hoards of Google applications out there. Your Google sign-on is now a single sign-on for YouTube as well. Just one more service you don’t have to remember your username and password for. Fortunately all previous YouTube accounts remain intact, and you still have the ability to remove the YouTube/Google if you so desire.
We are finally beginning to see some of the early bonuses of the Google/YouTube combo.
While regularly checking my stats during the morning yesterday, I was surprised to see a major hit parade from our friends over at StumbleUpon. Right then, I was reminded once again how powerful social networking is, when you can come up with a few unique posts. The problem is, it wasn’t unique, it was “The Complete RSS Tool Collection“, and it was in reference to Mashable’s incredibly thorough list of all tools in relation to RSS and RSS subscriptions. Someone Stumbled this rather un-unique post, it got a few thumbs up and things rolled from there. Now it’s #2 on my “Top Read Posts Of The Week” that you recognize in my sidebar.
The world’s most popular mobile based web browser has released version 4 in beta form earlier today and it appears they are taking direct aim at the iPhone. One of the bigger selling points of the new hyped phone coming to us from Apple, is the ability to browse web sites in their full form without seeing a stripped down mobile version. It appeared that the iPhone, and only the iPhone was going to have this capability, but now, thanks to our friends from the browser maker Opera, we’re going to be seeing what appears to be a very similar option for the rest of us with Opera capable phones.
I caught this new personalized news service on TechCrunch the other day and thought I would give it a shot. Thoof is another personalized news service, similar to Digg, Reddit or Netscape, but with a twist. It has a special AI feature that can identify the stories you are reading through your own history, and then only display the ones that you may be interested in. Hints from Kevin Rose indicate that Digg has similar features on the horizon, but until then, Thoof does have some unique features that will definitely keep me reading for the time being.
It appears as though Thoof is relying much on the user for story submission and tagging, but instead of using some type of plus/minus button for hyping the story up, It simply depends on if a user clicks on it or not.
So, if you are interested in checking out Thoof, just post a comment asking for an invite and I’ll shoot you one as soon as I can. It doesn’t appear as though there is any limitation as to my number of invites, so I’ll send out as many as I can until then.
