sharing

Google Reader Adds Social Sharing And Mark As Read Controls

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | The Google Reader team’s been busy of late, adding social network sharing and friend following features, but also giving power users a (long-awaited) ability to mark items of a certain age as read. More »

Watchitoo Combines Video Chat With Video Watching

3:30AM Adam Pash | Ever wish you could enjoy a video on the internet with friends rather than simply sharing a link with them? New web site Watchitoo wants to let you do just that, combining online video chat with streaming video from YouTube. More »

Dusty Tunes Shows Off Your ITunes Collection Or Playlists

12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Want to show your friends which tracks you can mixtape for them, or just show off your brilliant collection of pop hits and esoteric oldies? Dusty Tunes converts iTunes libraries and XML files into web-based lists. More »

Scr.im Shares Your Email On The Internet, Protects It From Spambots

7:00AM Adam Pash | Ever wanted to share your email address with someone in a public forum, but don’t want every spambot in the world adding your email address to their database? Scr.im can help. Scr.im is a very simple service that creates small, custom URLs for sharing your email with real people. It works like this: You add your email address to Scr.im, it gives you a small URL—like this one—that requires you to pass a captcha to view the email address. That’s all Scr.im does—which means you can file this one into the handy, single-use category for webapps—a category we love dearly. Scr.im [via Emily Chang] More »

Internet Tethering Already Working On iPhone 3.0

6:00AM Adam Pash | We haven’t verified any of these methods yet (as we don’t have access to iPhone 3.0), but word on the street is that iPhone internet connection sharing—aka tethering—is already working on the iPhone 3.0. Our gadget-loving sibling site Gizmodo has a detailed guide to enabling 3G tethering—but they haven’t verified it either. According to Mac Rumours, USB tethering is also working. On Tuesday Apple indicated that tethering would be an option in the 3.0 software update, but that it’s up to the providers to allow it. So while this really isn’t available to the majority of us yet, it’s a good sign of things to come. We particularly like the notion of USB tethering, which would likely mean less of a battery drain and better connection. How to Enable 3G Tethering in Your iPhone 3.0 Now [Gizmodo]USB Tethering Seems to be Working in iPhone 3.0 [Mac Rumors] More »

Google Reader Lets You Comment On Feed Items (For Other Reader Users)

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Google Reader users can now post and read comments, viewable only by their Google Contacts, on anything they come across. There was, of course, already a “Share” option for any item to offer it up to your fellow Reader-using contacts, but there was no back-and-forth dialog, unless you jumped into email—so that, basically, is what this solves. Along with the change, there’s a new “Comment View” in the Friends’ Shared Items list to condense what all your contacts are saying, and any feed items that your friends have commented on will show up with their picture thumbnailed on it during your reading. Is Reader’s semi-private watercooler commenting a smart move, or does it close off blogs and news from getting comments at the source? Share how you see it in the comments. More »

EmailThis Adds Instant Email Bookmarklet To Your Toolbar

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | EmailThis is a simple bookmarklet that opens a window to email anybody a link to the page you’re looking at, with no email access or login required. Clicking on the EmailThis bookmarklet summons up a basic email dialogue box, familiar to anyone who’s clicked an “Email this” link on a newspaper or magazine site. In fact, the bookmarklet comes from the folks at Clickability, an emailing service that powers many of the web’s mail-this-page links. Fill in your email, the recipient’s email, and a not, and your link and notes are sent out. The no-login feature is convenient when you just want to zip a link out to someone without having to log into your webmail or fire up Outlook. Although it isn’t necessary, you can get an account with Clickability that allows you to save frequent contacts and basic settings between sessions. If you’re a Gmail user—and would like to route all your emailed snippets through your regular mail server instead of a third party—make sure to check out our very own Supercharged Gmail Bookmarklet to gain the same functionality of EmailThis, plus some Google-fied extras. EmailThis is a free tool and should work with any browser that supports JavaScript. EmailThis [via Freeware Genius] More »

Mesh Video Player Makes Playing Shared Videos Easier

3:00PM Angus Kidman | Anecdotally, one of the more popular uses for Microsoft’s Live Mesh is for sharing and accessing video files, but there’s still the challenge of playing your in-the-cloud video. Microsoft techie Brian Gorbett has coded up a Mesh video player; if you’re happy to grapple with source code, it’s probably worth a look. I haven’t got a Mesh-enabled machine to hand, so I haven’t been able to test this out; if you have, share your experiences in the comments. Mesh Video Player [via Angus Logan] More »