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Jul 24 2010

Kindle 2.5 is on the air

Kindle Version 2.5 Overview

We're excited to announce that a new, free software update is now available for Kindle and will be automatically delivered to your device. The features included in this update are:

  • Collections: Organize your books, audiobooks, and personal documents into one or more collections. Subscriptions such as newspapers, magazines, and blogs cannot currently be added to collections on Kindle. Learn more. -->

  • PDF Pan and Zoom: Zoom into PDFs and pan around to easily view small print and detailed tables or graphics. Learn more. -->

  • Password Protection: Password protect your Kindle when you're not using it. Learn more. -->

  • More Font Sizes & Improved Clarity: Enjoy two new larger font sizes and sharper fonts for an even more comfortable reading experience. Learn more. -->

  • Facebook & Twitter Posts: Share meaningful book passages with friends on Facebook and Twitter directly from your Kindle. Learn more. -->

  • Popular Highlights: See what the Kindle community thinks are the most interesting passages in the books you're reading. Learn more. -->
via amazon.com

Social component is clearly the most interesting. Can't hardly wait to try.

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Mar 11 2010

Google releases Reader Play

Did you see the Google Reader Play yet?  As they call it, the fun new way to do something.

Because if you did - I'd need some of your help to understand what is it for.  I'm still struggling.  Besides, it has retried a dozen of times, before it actually displayed something.  Not good.

What's next?  Are they looking into Google TV?  (By the way, the google.tv domain name is owned by Google and redirects to search page.)

P.S. I liked that image that happened to appear in my feed. :)
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Mar 3 2010

Moving the domain name to Posterous

Finally I came to the point that I do not see much sense in keeping up my Blogger account any longer.  

Posterous became a great replacement, I found myself using only it, with broadcasting everything to all other points of presence, so why keep it secondary, while it's the deal maker.  And it keeps much more history in it, comparing to Blogger, which keeps only its own story.

I would keep my Blogger (prokhorenko.blogspot.com) account anyways, but it's not going to be serving my live.prokhorenko.us domain name anymore.

Have fun and don't be angry of some posts reappearing again in the feed - shit happens.
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Nov 20 2009

Yahoo! Pipes for Twitter's Reading List

I've managed to create a very nice and probably useful Yahoo! Pipe to manage my Twitter friend's feed as a reading list.

As you know, nowadays it's a common practice to post interesting links to your Twitter feed. Even I personally hooked up my Google Reader with the help of Twitterfeed to post articles that I want to share directly to my feed on Twitter. Works well, except that I miss a lot of links. I can't read my friends feed all day long (and I'm following only a hundred or so people). So whenever I read the feed (very occasionally) I can hit the shared links of only that period of time. I don't browse history or anything like that.

However, I'd probably like to read all the links that they advice to visit. I'm pretty picky about whom I'm following. You can call it social news. Where your social circle is doing the job on filtering the news for you. And you end up with a list of "pre-approved" things that you're safe to go with, without high risk of wasting your time.

Anyways so I run into this venture and built a quick hack for myself.

http://pipes.yahoo.com/white/twitterreading

I call it Twitter Reading List. You put your name & password in there (yeah, I can be a asshole and copy your data, so take a look at the source first if you're afraid of it :), and you will get a RSS feed of all posts from your Twitter friends, whom you follow and who posted something interesting. This pipe will fetch a title of it for you, as well as link it to direct link to whatever your friend wants you to read.

Well, yeah, on the negative side, I don't like the idea of sending my password plain-text, but... whatever. One more thing, it looks like it's limited to some specific number of posts there. It's probably possible to overcome, I don't know.

So fire it up, link to your Google Reader or any other favorite news reader and have fun!

P.S. IT IS buggy. It's a dirty hack and I need to fix the regexp for URLs among many other things, but it works.

P.P.S. Yahoo! Pipes rock. This is definitely a great way to easily sketch up a tool and use it right away. Try it yourself.

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About Olexandr Prokhorenko

My name is Olexandr Prokhorenko, but you probably also know me as Alexander Prohorenko or "white". I am Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Sun Certified Systems Administrator for Solaris (SCSA) and Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP), and this helps me to be a better IT entrepreneur. I used to write tech articles, but don't have time for this anymore.

My projects are CPGjobs & CPGjoblist, Extracom (acquired in 2002), dt-Source, BossTalks, iTunes' CyrFix, Shotscreen, Strawlink, Atomkeep, Everytalks and Budgetler.

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