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Rota Board : Group calendar management


Got a group you need to keep organized? Need to know when Tom or Jane are on-shift or off-work? Rota Board is group calendar management in AJAX-y Web 2.0 goodness style.

Rota offers a drag-and-drop calendar interface made specifically for keeping track of all your staff's working schedules. Useful, but not overly-feature loaded, Rota has the Web 2.0 philosophy of simplicity down pat.

[via eHub]

Filed under: Developer, Internet, Blogging, Web services, Yahoo!, How-Tos, Social Software

Aggregating myself with Yahoo! Pipes


Yesterday I wrote a bit about taming the RSS feeds generated by the myriad Web 2.0 services to which you're subscribed. It occurred to me that Emily Chang's original quest to pull together all of the feeds she creates into a single meta-feed was a perfect project for Yahoo! Pipes.

I sat down to take all the data I spew at places like my own blog, del.icio.us, Twitter, and Flickr into one aggregated bowl of RSS love. The result of my feed union isn't an hour by hour diary of my day, but does create an ephemeral stream of things that are undeniably me. The same techniques could easily be tweaked to document your day to near pinpoint perfection, if you're so inclined.

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Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Productivity, Social Software

Taming your own river of news


Download Squad readers are tech-heavy web users. If you're like me, you probably generate quite a bit of RSS (maybe even without conscious awareness). Del.icio.us, your blog, your Flickr stream, etc, etc, ad nausea. We're at a total saturation point for the incoming data streams we deal with on a daily basis and, since there's no sign of the dataflow slowing down, we're forced to look for better ways to deal with it all. Necessity, after all, is the mother of all invention.

Emily Chang writes, "After a year and a half of using social applications heavily, I recently had to revisit the plan to aggregate all my activity into one data stream. As the calendar rolled to 2007, I kept wishing I could look at all my social activity from 2006 in context: time, date, type of activity, location, memory, information interest, and so on. What was I bookmarking, blogging about, listening to, going to, and thinking about"

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