Cut down on the Friendfeed noise with Noiseriver

By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]

With Twitter’s downtimes becoming less and less of a joke, lots of people are migrating to Friendfriend. I’ve been at Friendfeed for quite a while now but the site suffers from the same problem that most aggregation services suffer from – excessive noise.

No, I don’t mean Led Zeppelin being played at full volume or the screams of passionate love making. What I mean is lots of duplicate entries cluttering up the page – yes, that kind of noise! This can be a big problem if you’re on Friendfeed and you’re following several hundred people. If someone posts the same link several times, it can be enough to get you unsubscribed – and it’s easy to do. If you digg a link, then stumble it, then add it to your Delicious account, then talk about it on Twitter, then blog about it….there’s 5 identical links right there.

Move over TinyURL, here comes TinyPaste

By Mark O’Neill
Contributing Writer, [GAS]

Here’s one for all you wordy blowhards out there who go totally nuts at Twitter’s 140 character limit, yep all you people that think that Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is just a bit of casual light reading for a Sunday afternoon.

If you absolutely love to write on and on without any kind of restraint whatsoever, you now can! TinyPaste will give you a free text box in which to write your huge masterpiece unhindered and without any character limits. You can then post it online wherever you want.

WiFi Hits the Road with New Car-Based Networks

By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] The road trip is about to be revolutionized. Chrysler has just introduced an in-car WiFi system that’ll let you surf the net while on the go. Uconnect Web — unveiled at a company event in Detroit today — will be available for all Chrysler, Jeep, and Dodge models by […]