Filangy

I've been using FIlangy for a couple months now and I have to say I like it. Basically, you just install the toolbar in your browser and it indexes every site you go to (those that are public, not the private ones {it does this by having their servers access the page itself, not transmitting what you are looking at to the server, so any site that requires a login or registration doesn't get indexed}), and you can also save any site to your "webmarks", same as bookmarks basically. Whenever you search the web you can get 3 types of results, those from the web proper, from your web cache and those from your webmarks. They also do good stuff like cluster your search results as well. You're probably wondering about privacy. Well, all they require is an email address for registration and login, and we all know those are pretty easy to come by. Here is their FAQ: Filangy Frequently Asked Questions

This guy has a good writeup of it as well: http://www.igniq.com/robs_blog/2005/02/filangy-beta-first-impressions.html.

I have some invites, so if you'd like to try it out, let me know.

Firefox 1.0

The new Firefox 1.0 has been out for a week or so now. It's great and I highly recommend it. Especially the All in ONe Gestures extension. They makes browsing very ergonomic in that you don't have to click on browser button but instead right click and move the mouse to the left if you want to go back. Opera has these too. Not sure if IE supports them, as I don't use that security compromised browser anymore.

For the record, Firefox is the only web browser endorsed by nanothoughts.

Wikipedia

When I first saw Wikipedia about a year and a half ago, I wasn't impressed.

Flash forward to september of 2004 and now I'm sold.

Wikipedia is the future. Count on it.

Web Fads

This is only Part 1, but it's a good list so far. Seems to be in alphabetical order, except Mahir is first, go figure. I remember all of these fads fondly. Check it out. The Book of Ratings: Web Fads, Part 1