There is a new site, that I find to be very cool, called Anothr.com which offers the unique service of sending you Skype messages when your favorite blogs are updates.

Although its in English, this is a Chinese site and the page sometimes loads slowly (though it’s been getting better). Luckily you don’t have to deal with that very often considering that they are simply going to push notification of your favorite blog posts to you via Skype; and frankly, this is simply not a delay sensitive service. If your notification comes a few minutes late… so what?
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My buddy Hrafn over at Inkblot Earth found this incredibly cool screen saver called Twingly. In a nutshell it does the following things:

• A visual representation shows blog postings from around the world in real time.
• You can zoom in and out with your mouse’s scroll wheel, and you can rotate and spin the globe by clicking and dragging.
• It’s possible to tell where the most articles are coming from because bars get taller as more posts come in from certain places.

Read on to see a video of it in action!
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You see all those little links at the side of the page that say “Subscribe”? Well, those are made possible by a technology called RSS (Really Simple Syndication). They allow an automated program to quickly check a web site and present only what’s been updated since the last time you visited.
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