Weekend Reader

For People Who Like to Watch – If you’ve got a Twitter account but can’t be bothered to type even 140 characters, perhaps you’d like to try Visual Twitter, which uses Twitter accounts to aggregate together camera phone photos instead of words.

Online Business Apps for the Masses – That’s the premise of LongJump, a new marketplace/community for web-based applications that’s currently taking pre-launch signups. They promise easy drag-and-drop development and interoperability among various LongJump applications, based on a proven CRM platform.

When You Have Too Much Stuff in del.icio.us – You need deliGoo, a search engine for hardcore del.icio.us users. Install this Firefox extension, and you can search not only your bookmarks and their descriptions, but the text of the pages that they point to as well. It’s like building your own targeted search engine without writing code.

Web Workers Gotta Eat Too – And when they do, the CalorieKing Mobile page, optimized for your mobile phone, can search through its database of 50,000 foods and tell you that slice of pecan pie has 679 calories. Better get the cottage cheese instead.

Why are you Still Here? – TopStyle and FeedDemon developer Nick Bradbury recently wrote a short but thought-provoking essay titled “Don’t Trade Your Life for Tech.” He suggests that not spending every waking hour in front of the keyboard makes you a better person and might even make you write better code. Thought about going outside today?

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