Tag: STORIES

If you read your news in feed form, you're likely familiar with Google Reader's "star" feature. You can click a star to save a story for later, and use your star list for quick reference. Google News has finally added something similar for those who read their news the old-fashioned way. Starring a story adds it to your "starred" menu, accessible via the sidebar, and causes any updates to appear ...

A couple of years ago, there was a site called ficlets, a home for collaborative fiction stories put together in super-short 1024-character bursts. Ficlets was great, because anybody could jump in and add to a story in no time at all, and some interesting work grew out of it. When Ficlets disappeared, the active community it left behind had no place to go. Until now. Ficly, from the creators of ...

It's great to read emails, short RSS headlines, and instant messages on your mobile device, but what about reading novels? Has that just pushed the line? Wattpad has introduced a mobile client that gets novels, like proper novels, onto mobile devices in text form. When users have the client installed on their devices, it makes it possible to download additional stories and read them offline. They ...

Michael Battle has created a 3D Flash visualization of Digg stories in a full-screen spectacle that is pretty cool. Digg has their own Flash visualization tools, but nothing like this. If you haven't seen this in action, it is rockin'. I still prefer to search through Digg stories the old-fashioned website way, but 3D digg is certainly a break from the ordinary everyday once in a while. I have an ...