Week 4, thing#13: Delicious.com

The old website tutorial "del.icio.us" is no longer available. PLCMCL2 is also gone. The site was re-sold to AVOS Systems on April 27, 2011 and relaunched in a "back to beta" state on 27 September 2011. There is a new video to introduce its new feature called "stacks". The web link for the new tutorial for the feature is "http://del.icio.us/help/getstarted". The site encouge people to use Firefox. I registered the new account and try to create a Stack with subject of 23 things and tried to collect various images to show how the features will work. My work is demonstrated at http://delicious.com/stacks/nationfrank. The problem I had is the website is not that fast and it took long time for me to move from one action to another.

Week 3, Thing#12: Rollyo

Free photos link on the 23 things blog has been identified by Rollyo site as spam so it is not usable. PLCMC is now having 11 sites in its family list but search is not working when I tried to do it on 10/7/2011. The site is very user friendly in terms of creating "Searchrolls" and add your onw blog site to the searchbox. It is also easy to add Rollyo's Searchbox to your own website as it displays below.

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Week 3, Thing#11: librarything.com

Librarything is a very good software with attractive web interface. It is easy to arrange page layout and you can add and edit tags quickly. I particularily like the way it allows you to select beatiful covers for your collection. You can find my sample collection at: http://www.librarything.com/home/Frank0001.

Week 2, thing#10: Avatar Creation

Week 2, thing#10: Image Generator

I found "Letter James" is a good image generator site which is easy to use and has many good photos. I am not very impressed with "Generator Blog", especially the instrution and guides are confusion.

Week 2, Thing#9: RSS Applications

I think copy and paste RSS feed icon in the reader is the most efficient way to get updated news feed. The kay is not overdo it. Developing a good layout and organizing them in an efficient way is also important. Feedster is still under construction. Technorati' blog directory is a useful tool but search is really slow. I found it is easier to find news feeds than blog feeds. Topix.net is an interest site to get latest news and blogs on many subjects while syndic8 is a good one to find feeds on various topics.

Week 2, Thing#8: RSS

Most links are broken and tutorials on original posting in 23things are outdated as of 9/26/2011. I think Bloglines has totally redone its interface with better tab function for organization. Many RSS feeds in LJ are outdated also. I think RSS feature is great for getting updated information on interest topics in one place. The trick is to organize the pages in such a way you will not be overwhelmed by information. Also now you need to set a public page through "Enable" function by Netvibes/Bloglines account. My public page address is: http://www.netvibes.com/nationfrank