Google Reader – shares widget, Feedrinse.com, Bookswim.com, Dova.com global job search, Summaries.com executive business book summaries
Featured sites and tools for the day:
1. Google Reader shares widget for Wordpress or any other blog or site: : http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my#overview-page
The way to actually get to the popup windo that shows the code that you need to put into a text widget in wordpress shows up under the above link, if you already have a Google Reader account. It is under: Settings/Folders and Tags/ and there is a hyperlink on the right.
2. Feedrinse does what Google Reader does not yet do, apparently. If someone knows how to please do tell. Feedrinse filters your feeds for keywords. I’m not sure yet if it does what i need which is consolidate similar feeds, and thread them, but its a start.
3. This site is cool, it is like a library subscription via mail. There is another site like it but this one seemed to have a larger variety. It is like Netflix for books. It even says that. My local Omaha library started a program similar to this recently, but its $2.50 per book. With this you have unlimited keep of the books, and unlimited checkouts. I doubt I would read more than one a week anyway, though. The site has a better selection and no waiting list though, and my library definitely has a waiting list for some books or doesn’t carry them. Obviously this is the alternative to standard Amazon purchases, and to the Kindle as well.
4. For those of you interested in global job search I found this site interesting. It is like Indeed.com for the world. It does a broad search of a ton of countries. Indeed is nice too if you weren’t aware of that. It’s like Google for job sites.
5. This is a neat book summarizing site that has a subscription service for 8 pg executive summaries of recent business books. I find this an interesting concept, because there are so many business books coming out and I read at 300-400 wpm (I am currently reading “10 Days to Faster Reading” off of the PersonalMBA.com list, and I actually am taking a standard MBA as well) which makes it hard, with limited time, to read all the books that I want to. Obviously some of the book could be lost in summary but it seems that they wouldn’t be able to charge if the summaries weren’t useful.
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