aggrefeed.com

“Sometimes we discover interesting websites that we want to save to check out later because we’ re busy with other tasks. For such occasions, there is a new breed of browser addons, bookmarklets, and special bookmarking services available to help save those urls and retrieve them easily later. Here are 11 of them. Do you use tools like this, or do you prefer continuing to use normal browser bookmarking services like Delicious? Let us know in the comments. FriendFeed Read …”
via Mashable!

“The latest numbers are in, and Twitter is apparently growing at a torrid pace. According to stats just released from Nielsen Online, Twitter recorded 2.3 million unique visitors in August (US-only), an increase of 422% from the same period last year. Moreover, visitors to Twitter spent 55% more time on the site on average – a total of more than 7 minutes per user. Those numbers point to rather robust growth for the site, especially considering many of its most …”
via Mashable!

“In a rare blog post, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses those that have been critical of the social network’s new design, which has now been rolled out to nearly all of the site’s 100 million members. As we noted earlier this week, more than 7 million users have joined various groups protesting the changes, with many calling for Facebook to at least offer an option to go back to the old design. Zuckerberg writes : “As people share …”
via Mashable!

“Edmodo is best described as Twitter for students and teachers. In reality though, it’ s basically a private micro-blogging service for schools with built-in security features that give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classrooms. The Keys to the Classrom One of the nice features is that students don’ t even need an email address to join the classroom. All they need is the special sign-up code that the teacher generates when they create the environment. If a student has …”
via Mashable!

“During the Microhoo debacle, everyone was wondering who was going to buy Yahoo. While all eyes were on that, Yahoo has been quietly going about its business. Their business now seems to be wanting to become the platform that everyone develops for, and that initiative is called Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) . In the past few months, we have seen the release of SearchMonkey , FireEagle and the BOSS API . On Monday we saw the addition of two preview …”
via Mashable!

“Most of us are talking pirate today, and if you feel like doing your part to get into the mood, here are 10 sites you can check out. These are our picks from the dozens available today. Original Site For Talk Like A Pirate Day is the official site where you can learn all about being a pirate. There are details about how the Talk Like A Pirate Day started, the buzz, FAQs, party pictures, newsletters, books, games, T shirts, …”
via Mashable!

“  On September 18th 2008, Mashable’ s Twitter followers donated $3536 to Charity:Water , an initiative to build wells in Ethiopia. On the same day, our Twitter friend Paul Young raised a further $637 through his Twitter and Facebook accounts. And Twitter user Sarah Townsend hauled in $400 – that’ s more than $4500, almost exclusively from Twitter, in a single day. With $4000 buying an entire well to supply water to 200 people for 20 years, we can truly …”
via Mashable!