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Twitter/Facebook Client Brizzly Open For Sign-Ups

9:00AM Kevin Purdy | Brizzly, the web-based social-media manager that ranked as one of our readers’ favourite Twitter clients, has dropped the invite code requirement and is available for anyone to log into. It’s still technically in “beta”, but mostly to keep up the fairly rapid pace of feature development. [via TechCrunch]
Design

Shape Collage Online Makes Great Photo Collages In Your Browser

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Web application Shape Collage quickly turns your online photos into embeddable photo collages with nothing more than a few clicks. It’s an interesting way to showcase your pictures online without a lot of work. More »
Work

You Can’t Always Trust Mash-Up Data

3:00PM Angus Kidman | There’s nothing we like better than a good mash-up (here’s a couple of random examples). But when it comes to services that integrate data from multiple locations and draw their own conclusions, it’s always best to apply a little healthy cynicism. More »
Work

How To Manage A Group Project In Google Wave

4:00AM Gina Trapani | Google Wave has the potential to be used for just about anything, but Wave’s best real-world use boils down to this: it helps a group get things done together. Here’s how to manage a group project in Wave. More »
Organise

Listerine Organises Your Twitter Lists

8:30AM Lisa Hoover | Twitter lists are a helpful new feature for crowd-sourcing your stream, but adding contacts to new lists you create is a really clunky affair on Twitter’s web site. Webapp Listerine makes the job a whole lot easier. More »
Communicate

Taweet Makes Scheduling Twitter Updates Easy

1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | While Twitter might have been founded on the idea of people sharing what they are doing right that moment, what about if you want to share what you’re doing in the future? Taweet solves the dilemma with scheduled tweets. More »
Work

Pingtest Assesses The Quality Of Your Internet Connection

7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | You’ll find an abundance of tools to test your internet connection speed but what if you want to test the quality and reliability of the connection? Pingtest gives you feedback on your connection. More »
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TimeMe Keeps You Accountable In The Most Basic Way Possible

5:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | TimeMe is an online timer that sticks to the principle of doing one thing — and doing it well. It’s a simple online stopwatch with very few distractions, functions or add-ons to get right to the heart of time keeping. More »
Work

SimpleText.ws Is An Open-Source Scratchpad Webapp

3:00AM Kevin Purdy | Want to get writing without having to worry about fonts, formatting or anything else, really? SimpleText.ws signs you in using Google, offers revision history and looks like a text editor from a classic black-and-white Mac. More »
Work

Updating The Better Extensions For Firefox 3.6

7:30AM Gina Trapani | Now that the Firefox 3.6 beta is available for download (portable version is here), it’s time to start updating the Better Firefox extensions. The most popular ones, Better Gmail 2 and Better GReader, are already 3.6-compatible; the rest will come in the next few weeks. As always, join the Google Group to ask questions or make comments about the Better Firefox extensions.