Think Stick!

Chrome on Mac with Shareholic & Zemanta

Shareholic is a tool for people who are addicted to sharing the content they found on web through pretty much any communication channel. The list of services they support is quite long but it was pretty easy to customize which ones you want to use. I think just the fact that I’m posting something right now should prove Shareholic’s usefulness.

The second extension is called Zemanta. To be honest, I am skeptical of the quality of its recommendations. I’m hopeful to be proven wrong.

Related articles by Zemanta

• What Is Zemanta? (yearn2blog.com)
• Google’s Chrome Extensions and Zemanta (mobilebull.blogspot.com)
• Google Chrome for Mac and Linux: They’re Here [Browsers] (gizmodo.com)

Recap from Product Camp Boston

Product Innovation Through Playing Games : InnovationGames

This site was recommended by the session leader of  Product Innovation Session. It appears to be a  collection of interactive techniques/games you play to ultimately define your product’s future vision.  The site and concept are based off of the book with the same name.

• Crucial Conversations
• Crucial Confrontations

• If you just want  a quick and easy intro to graphic design, try The Non Designer’s Design Book.

• If you just want to add some visual thinking to your life, try Back of the Napkin.

• If you really want to get into the details, try About Face 3.

At the Innovation session, I mentioned this awesome little book called Why Not? by Barry Nalebuff and Ian Ayres. (Side note: these guys are  the guiding forces behind Stickk, another one of my favorite sites.)

If you were at ProductCamp Boston and have anything to add, please let me know in the comments!

Things Google knows

Gmail

• What stores I shop at and how much I spend at each
• What credit cards I have/Which banks I use
• Who my friends are
• When I will not be home (from my flight confirmation emails)
• How much I spend on gifts and for whom
• Any social network acct I have and access to them
• Any web app I signed up

Google Calendar

• My social calendar : when I meet up with my friends, what we tend to do
• My work calendar : what my meetings are about (if I use outlook sync)
• My personal appointments (doctor visits, waxing, haircut, massage appointments)

Google Reader

• Blogs I read
• Blogs I pretend to read by subscribing but not actually reading
• Blogs I deem important enough to share with others
• My guilty pleasure blogs (blogs that I never share but read 100% of the posts)
• Content type I love
• Which friends’ shared items get my attention
• The fact that I am an occasional insomniac (from the hours I use GoogleReader)

Web History (Google.com)

• Basically every web search I made

Google Maps

• Knows my home address and my office address
• Any new place I look up directions for
• Any road trip I plan
• My commute hours from my live traffic searches

Google Profile

• Knows my real name
• Knows where I work
• Knows what I do for a living

There’s probably even more that I don’t realize. Isn’t it terrifying? What else does Google know about me? About you?

Link of the moment : Webware – Google revamps Street View interface

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10108117-2.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Webware

Street View’s split screen, when it’s working.

(Credit: Google)

Tool Box: Webware – Feed Rinse

This Webware coverage of  Feed Rinse caught my ever searching eyes for the best tools to improve my digital life. Google Reader is a huge part of my digital life and tools that will make it even more useful are at the top of my list.