ReadAir - Another Easy Way to Read Your Google Reader RSS Feeds on your Desktop

Of course, you can use Google Reader offline with Gears or by using Google Chrome, but have a look at this new project called ReadAir.
ReadAir, a project still in development and can be downloaded from Google Code, provides an easy way to access your Google Reader RSS feeds on your desktop. It focuses on getting your feeds to you when you want it. You won’t have the extra social aspects like sharing and commenting on articles, but it is a great way to quickly read over your feeds from your desktop. (via)
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Download ReadAir (version 0.31)
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Labels: adobe, air, desktop, rss, software_tips, software_tools
Windows4all.com - Silverlight based online virtual operating system

Windows4all is web-based and requires Silverlight 2 to operate. Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar currently it includes such applications as File Explorer, Internet Explorer, Video Player, Rich test editor, RSS reader, Notepad, Paint, Calculator, Games like Chess, Solitaire, etc..
link: http://windows4all.com/
25+ Online Alternatives for your most Popular Desktop Applications (SaaS)

As hard as it is to believe, just by surfing around online, you can access most of the desktop app functionalities you need without selling out a cent and to be free of software piracy.
| Classic Desktop Application | Online Alternative (SaaS) |
| Office: Microsoft Office2007 | Google Docs Zoho OpenGoo |
| Image Processing: MS Paint, Photoshop | Splashup Photoshop Online befunky.com |
| Charts, Diagrams: Microsoft Visio 2007 | Gliffy Lovely Charts iPlotz Draw Anywhere |
| Project-Management: Microsoft Project CRM/ GTD/ERP Enterprise Solution | zohoplanner.com Zoho CRM v-tiger salesforce.com CRM SugarCRM Springpad Deskaway Teamness Action Method ZingLists |
| PDF Converter | iConv Google Docs You convert it |
| Apple1 Password Manager and Form Fille | clipperz |
| Apple Aperture 1.5 | Flickr |
| Microsoft Outlook 2007 | Gmail |
| Desktop Operating Systems | 10 Popular Web OS |
| HTML Editor: Dreamweaver Vector Graphics: Flash Animation | app2you Wix |
| Desktop calculators | InstaCalc |
HP fax machine Printing paper | FaxZERO (U.S. and Canada) |
| RSS Reader: SharpReader (Windows) NetNew Wire (Mac OS X) Straw (Linux) | Netvibes AideRSS Google Reader feedshow.com NewsGator Rojo Bloglines |
| Website Analysis Software | Google Analytics GoingUp.com |
| Messenger: MSN, Google Talk IC, AIM Jabber, Yahoo!, Skype | meeboo IMO.IM Nimbuzz eBuddy.com |
| All desktop tools | Sosiu |
| Task Lists, Organizer, Time Management | Ta-da List Deskaway Backpack Springpad Action Method |
| Microsoft OneNote 2007 | evernote.com |
| Apple MindManager 7.0 Mac | Bubbl.us mindjet.com |
| Microsoft Money Plus Premium | Wesabe Mint.com Quicken |
| Spreadsheets: MS Excel 2007 | chartAll editgrid.com Google Docs |
| Presentation: MS PowerPoint | Preezo Scribd Slideshare formatpixel Amap |
| Adobe LiveCycle ES | Wufoo |
| Excel spreadsheets Invoices Financial software | PayPal blinksale.com freshbooks.com Invotrak Sales-King.eu |
| Hard drive storage space | DivShare box.net mediafire.com |
| Conference: MS NetMeeting | Voxli Dimdim |
| SSH Client | GotoSSH |
| Bittorrent client | BitLet |
let me know, if we should list another one, to be continued...
Labels: cloud_computing, collaboration, e-business, html, rss, software_tips, software_tools, web_2.0, web_apps
SXSW 09 Music - 4 Hyperactive Days of Making Connections for Musicians

SXSW Music is four hyperactive days of making connections for musicians, recording companies and every other business touching on music, from concert bookers to copyright lawyers, publishers to Web geeks. -- New York Times, 3/19/07
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Come Saturday
Port O’Brien - I Woke Up Today
Royal Bangs - New Scissors
Say Hi - Northwestern Girls
Black Lips - O Katrina!
DD/MM/YYYY - Digital Haircut
Girls - Lust For Life
Sky Larkin - Fossil, I
Efterklang - Mirador
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Online Collaborative Task Management with Teamness
Teamness is a software project from romania based bitground and a web application, which intended to organize projects, task and collaborative team workflows.
you can assign easy tasks and attach messages to them, manage and share files and whiteboards, set milestones correlated with tasks, create groups to gather similar data, subscribe projects RSS feeds to monitor the latest project activities and invite clients to watch the progress, customize the look and feel of the private space, multi-lingual interface...the application is developed in ASP .NET and C# and powered by MS SQL Server and IIS server.
have a look on my.teamness.com
via | tags: project collaboration bitground teamness
Labels: collaboration, e-business, rss, sharing, social_software, web_2.0, web_apps
MTV recently announced Content Video API is out of private beta
Available as part of a new MTV Networks Developers Tools web site, the RESTful API gives access to content from MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo. The API supports a variety of open standards including OpenSearch and MediaRSS
http://developer.mtvnservices.com/
3 easy ways for following the web that you should know
1. OriginalSignal 2. Popurls 3. Alltop

All these web services are (single page) RSS aggregator web sites, designed to bring the most popular RSS feeds collected by topics to you and me.
via | tags: rss aggregator alltop popurls originalsignal
Technorati ProfileLabels: collaboration, mashups, rss, search, sharing, web_2.0
