Tech & Etc

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Jack Fisher

26 Feb 2007

Two new sites for all you Web 2.0 devotees:

Upscoop lets you see all the social networking sites that your friends belong to. It's one of the ways to address the problem I ranted about in my Unsocial Networks post last month.

YourMinis is an attempt to consolidate all the content you like floating around. More than an RSS feed, it's a snazzy platform that organizes information in a user-centric way.

We are teaching the machine folks! I like to think that I found these places myself, but I actually found them off World Tech Logic, a neat blog about current tech stuff.

Give these guys some gold stars!

Bay Area art girls

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Broke a Mirror

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Buy in bulk

My 78 year old mom came to visit, and we dropped by Safeway, today. She loves this store. They don't have Safeways in Texas. She insisted on buying 3 cases of bottled water (40 bottles each case). I grabbed the closest one I found, but those were $6.

Appreciation

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Broke a Mirror

Buy in bulk

Appreciation