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February 26, 2003

Backflipping Blogs...blogflipping?
Posted by Jess in Tech Talk

Have you ever used a product or service for eons, and then all of a sudden realized how "incredibly mind-bogglingly useful" (name that quote!) it is?

Such is what happened with Backflip. I'd used it to post my bookmarks online so I can have them anywhere. Then I remembered that it comes with this mind-bogglingly useful feature called 'My Daily Routine'. (even the title SOUNDS useful).

After logging into Backflip, you can set up your daily routine. Add your links in the order you want to visit them (ie. all these daily blogs we love to read so much), and then every morning, you click the 'My Daily Routine' button (I just added it to my links on my browser), and a little frame appears at the top to let you chronologically go through each blog, and any other sites you would like to see.

The timing of this is really funny, because I just read Chris Miller's recent entry about suggestions for an easier way to navigate through the blogs.

Incidentally, the quote is from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In fact, at the moment, this blog is named 42. Why? Whenever Matt and I can't think of a better word at the moment, or a name for something, what else do you use that covers Life, the Universe and Everything? 42.

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I started using Netscape 7 a couple of weeks ago. It has a tabbed browsing interface, much like the old Notes workspace. Each tab has it's own url. So I've added 20 or so domino blogs to one set of tabbed. Two mouseclicks and I've got 20 blogs to read :-) That's how I keep track of all my daily reads!

Posted by: Gerco Wolfswinkel at February 28, 2003 01:59 PM

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Interesting!
Now I'm very curious, because I can't quite visualize it. Would you please be so kind to take a screenshot if you could?
The reason I really like backflip.com is because as it's an online service, I can check all the daily reads wherever I am, and my list travels with me. :-)

Posted by: Jess at March 1, 2003 11:56 AM

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I couldn't post the screenshot here, so I sent it by email. Check it out!

Regards,

Gerco

Posted by: Gerco Wolfswinkel at March 4, 2003 04:47 PM

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