HubSpot recently published an article on their blog about the next big social news site called Mixx. Mixx claims to be ‘Your Blend of the Web’, and I feel that it delivers—quite well.
Signing up for Mixx is a short and painless process. Enter a few of your favorite tags and categories and viola…you have a completely custom front page! Much more targeted than using Digg’s (very dry) category system.
I customized my front page to display Web Design, SEO, PHP and Ruby on Rails articles. So far I have been very happy with the news I am seeing, and have even learned about a new service called Tweetburner, but that’s a topic for another post.
I tried it again. I installed Windows Vista Ultimate on my laptop. I am not impressed.
I tried out Vista for about a week last year when it was first released. I liked the Windows Aero theme quite nicely, and the new desktop wallpapers of beautiful nature landscapes were a welcoming step up from XP’s tired set of backgrounds. However, there seems to be no real advantage over XP.
The core functions of the OS appear to be almost identical to XP. Microsoft has added a lot of new stuff “on top” of the OS, like a completely useless sidebar on the right-hand side. This sidebar features an analog clock, a photo slide-show window that rotates through my photos in the Pictures directory, and an RSS reader that is not big enough to display an entire headline. I understand that these widgets are customizable, but for standard widgets, they are a complete waste of time.
