From the category archives:

consumer web trends

    

Google’s Gmail application has always lacked one significant item for me:  control over signatures.  Well, there is still no solution from Google directly but the kind folks over at LifeHacker have stepped up to fill the void:

Featured Greasemonkey User Script: Add Multiple, Address-Specific HTML Signatures to New Gmail

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I promise that this is not going to turn into the “OpenID” blog but this news is just too large to ignore. Yahoo! has announced that all 248 million registered users of their properties will soon be able to use an OpenID to login. The grand vision of one, secure user id for the internet is more of a reality now than it ever has been.

Background information:
Yahoo! Will Add Support for OpenID
Yahoo! accounts become valid OpenIDs

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More OpenID News…

by Greg Tirico

    

The idea that we could have one password for all of our web activities is extremely appealing. I can’t tell you how many sites I have registered for in the past just to check out their service. Of course, I would expect that we all do the same thing. We try to pick the same [...]

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Google has announced that they are launching a wiki that will feature articles written by a single author. Of course, advertising will be a key component as authors will be able to choose whether or not their articles are shown alongside Adwords. Knol (as Google is calling it) is still in private beta so we [...]

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I have highlighted TripIt here before and it’s good to see them getting some more press. Springwise has a fairly lengthy (one page) description of their services and applauds their entrepreneurial spirit. Me? I think the service is great and use it whenever I travel. My travel plans are never too complex (corporate travel…mostly US-based…major [...]

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