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Summify Filters your Entire Online News Subscription into 5 Articles

Having a hard time keeping up with online news? If you are subscribed to numerous online news sites, blogs, facebook pages and twitter accounts… you know what mean. It now takes a lot of time browsing pages after pages of content just to find something that is “news” to you.

Summify is an online news reader that filters the content that you are subscribed to and deliver the top five stories to your email. This way you can lighten the browsing and just wait for the top news of the day in your email.

Do not mistake Summify for something that will deliver the top five or top ten news of the day from the entire web to you. Summify’s top picks will depend on your subscriptions. There’s a chance that you’ll miss a good read if you’re not subscribed to the website that delivered it.

You can add your Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader to Summify and it will choose which stories are most important. The more accounts you add, the better the selection process gets. You can choose the amount of articles you want emailed to you and the frequency of the delivery. If you only have time for 5 or 10 articles per day or want your news only once a week, you can easily edit them in your summary settings. You also have the power to set the time Summify will deliver the news to your email.

This is great for people who want the best news from their subscriptions and particularly useful to people who only have a limited amount of time for news articles.

 

Summify is a “social news reader” that helps you consume your river of news in minutes, rather than hours.

Tags: Facebook, Google Reader, News, reader, Summify, twitter

Google Reader Play: SlideShow the Web

Google recently released an interesting new way for you to browse the web. Branded as Google Reader Play, the new reader will allow you to browse the web, slide-show style, with some level of control. It displays a stream of video, images and text content. You can simply press the next button if you don’t like a particular item and share or star it if you do.

The service uses a somewhat similar algorithm as StumbleUpon, when it comes to recommending content. Google will keep track of the stuff that you star, like or share and they will show you similar content the next time you use Reader Play. In short, the more you use Reader Play, the more personalized your content gets.

This new version of Google reader seems to be formatted for TV viewing and with its passive approach on providing content, I wouldn’t be surprised if I see it on future televisions or if it gets included in future TV software updates.

Tags: Google, Google Reader, Google Reader Play, slideshow

GMDesk: Google Apps on your Desktop

Google web apps are great and what makes it even better is it’s free. The only thing is that if you’re using most of them, you need to open different tabs on your browser or clutter you desktop with widgets/gadgets. Google recently release a desktop application which will allow you to access different Google web services in just one desktop application.

GMDesk is an application where you can run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Picasa, Google Reader and Google Maps on a single desktop application. This is a great way to access your Google applications without opening them on your browser. Just access in the menu which service you want to use and once you are logged in your Google account. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts to easily switch to different services on your GMDesk. It also supports Google Apps access as well.

To install GMDesk, you need to have Adobe Air installed in your computer. If you do not have Adobe Air installed, just head over to their site and click download and if the engine does not detect Adobe Air in your computer, will automatically install it.

Tags: application, desktop, Gmail, GMDesk, google calendar, Google Docs, Google Maps. google, Google Reader, Picasa