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With this new service created by four ex google employees, FriendFeed enables you to show your friends what you are up to over many different networks.

This service allows you to link all your accounts into one place. When you take action on one of your other web services, your feed will be updated linking to the action you took.

Many people are comparing this to the News Feed on facebook, but more open.

If you post a new blog, add a photo to flickr, upload a new video to vimeo, add a video to your favorites on youtube, scrobble a track on last.fm, or one of the other actions totaling at 23 services, it will be added to your feed.

This looks like a promising web service, one that I will use for sure.

http://friendfeed.com/octalmage

Tags: friendfeed, web2.0, google

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This is a Google image search feature that I found and is one that I use all the time.

Let say I wanted to find some images of people related to the gnu project. Well if I did a image search I would get all kinds of pictures of gnu programs, the mascot, all kinds of things that I didn’t want. Well Google has been working on a face recognition features to filter out any image not containing a image. Here is an example on how to use it.

Click here to see a normal image search on gnu.

See how you get all kinds of images.

Now click here to see a face image search on gnu.

See how now you only see images containing faces.

The only way I know how to access this feature is by adding “&imgtype=face” to the end of the url.

So I turned the origional url of,

http://images.google.com/images?q=gnu

Into…

http://images.google.com/images?q=gnu&imgtype=face

Pretty easy to do, and very helpful.

The only thing I wounder now is what other imgtypes there are…

Enjoy,

OctalMage

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