RSS-related fun stuff. First, lemme say… my previous post on FilterMyRSS? Yea, one word: USEFUL! Especially if you’re thinking about merging a few filtered feeds into a handy-dandy custom widget. Grazr allows you to do just that. Granted there’s a subscription-based revenue model, and I can see a value in that, I guess, and thankfully there’s a one-off FREE version that gives you all the functionality, just not “as much” of it… you’ll see if you look.

Granted, the interface is a little “miss the boat” on awesome, but the end-result is most excellent. I don’t really have a need for it, as I have my LifeStream aggregated via MyBlogLog and I really don’t care much for filtering it, but… For those of you with a gagillion RSS Feeds to read every day? Want a nice way to interact with it? Check this out, it might make you happy in pants.

Honestly, when I saw this, I thought immediately of the countless people that I’ve seen on Twitter the past month or two begging for a way to scrub their RSS feeds from certain noise. FilterMyRSS is your friend, ladies and gentlemen. Basically, imagine Tiny URL, sort of, but for your RSS feeds.

It’s pretty simple. Point the site at an RSS feed, create an “exclusion” list, and *WHAM!*, you’ll be given a new URL with the filtered feed. All you gotta do at that point is import it to your ____ or FriendFeed timeline and you’re set.

See? Thank me later for sharing these bits of awesome on the web with you, my friends. Things like this will change the way you browse, and since most of you are Internet junkies, that’s like… changing the way you live! Improve, even, if I do say so myself.

Perhaps I should do a post on Summize but mentioning it at this point should be enough… especially after I boast about a twitter-based shopping experience using marrying the .COM bubble-burst-survivor, Amazon.com (you know the site), and Twitter, the ultra Web 2.0 awesome that I now describe as the “hub of the blogosphere”… that sometimes breaks. Oh! the site name, Twizon!

It’s simple, really. Know that Twitter thing? Know that Amazon thing?

Yea, it’s those. Pretty sweet. Though I see this site leading to tons of impulse purchases for stuff I’d NEVER dream of buying. But that’s the wonders of the web.

I’m going to just come out and say, SocialThing is a great interface, the new features ROCK, and it looks like they’re reaching out for more much needed services. I’d like to see Qik at the very least, and an AIR application (like Twhirl for Twiter/FriendFeed) to go along with … Otherwise, the new features in SocialThing’s recently launched ver 2.0 are (again) RAWK \m/ !!

And there’s nothing like some AJAXy-Goodness to make your site more awesome than it once was, aye? They leverage JQUERY like it’s going out of style, and even more neato? Yea, it works pretty fast. Granted, my Firefox browser is CRYING at me right now, thanks to having 18 tabs (including SocialThing) up right now, and their site’s definitely not helping, that’s for sure. But it’s worth it.

1. Check out & Share Twitter updates
2. Check out & Share Pownce updates
3. Check out & Share Facebook stuff
4. Check out & Share Digg links
5. Check out & Share Flickr uploads

Also, de.licio.us, last.fm, vimeo and YouTube.

Now, for those of you with Jaiku, instead of Twitter or Pownce… well? For now, you’re out of luck. If you want to share your blog’s RSS? You’re going to have to go to FriendFeed… But maybe not forever. They have this awesome “Vote” tab/feature-thing within the site with a TON of services. I say, add’m all, tah heck with it. Well, except for other aggregating sites, like FriendFeed, MyBlogLog, etc - redundancy no es bueno! Even though it happens a LOT now-a-days.

Overall, the goodest bestest thing is, there aren’t any “friend” elements to the site, so you don’t have to track yet ANOTHER list of people you know on yet ANOTHER site. Good going SocialThing!

For the third time - the new features are smokin’ awesome bad assness. I’m going to have to pay attention a little more to SocialThing as they progress [pro-gress] and make progress [prah-gress].

Attention people of the Internet,

Amazingly enough, for the web-savvy people, we recognize that all the English words on Earth that are of use have been acquired by worthless bastard name vultures looking to make a quick buck on “carpet.wut” - or whatever. I’d like to use this moment to officially give my appreciation to the cleverness of your misspellings… Similarr is no exception.

Oh, and in addition, the concept is rad. Take a search engine, have people throw some search terms at it… and allow them to chat with one another on the results pane? Awesome. The site features an array of social networking aspects including:

• Friends & Foes
• Private Messages
• Forum Subscriptions
• Profiles
• Usage Activity (# of posts, % of site volume)

Their tagline pretty much sums it up, “Search the Web and Talk About Your Interests.” - I like it.