Emily Chang - Blog

After a year and a half of using social applications heavily, I recently had to revisit the plan to aggregate all my activity into one data stream. As the calendar rolled to 2007, I kept wishing I could look at all my social activity from 2006 in context: time, date, type of activity, location, memory, information interest, and so on. What was I bookmarking, blogging about, listening to, going to, and thinking about? I still had the urge to have an information and online activity mash-up that would allow me to discover my own patterns and to share my activity across the web in one chronological stream of data (to start with anyway). Read more...

A few months ago I was asked by Tom Markiewicz, CEO of EvolvePoint, to be on a panel about "Using RSS for Marketing" for the SXSW Interactive Conference coming up March 9-13 and I gladly accepted. Read more...

SuprGlu "gathers your content from popular web services and publishes them in one convenient place." My first thought was that it sounded like another simple feed aggregator. I gave SuprGlu a spin tonight and was pleasantly surprised by both the ease of use and the sense of personal discovery. Read more...

I had gotten an email from the Netvibes team to take a look at the site last week and signed up and took a quick spin around. I finally had a chance to explore further tonight. The buzz around Netvibes is well warranted.¹ In previous posts, I'd been writing about the desire for tools that make it easier to navigate our variety of information sources. Netvibes provides a fast and efficient interface from which to do just that. Read more...