As a faithful reader of the New York Times, I’m intrigued by the possibilities with the TimesPeople beta Firefox add-on that was recently introduced.  If you set it up to do so, this application also interacts with your Facebook account and I’m hoping soon with WordPress.  Here’s the TimesPeople FAQ.

Every now and then I become more amazed at the way Google continues to innovate and extend its reach.  Now they’ve released an online service called Google Health.

The Official Google blog has a post titled: Google Health: the First Look

ZDNet has an article as titled Google Health Beta Test Launched that talks about the new service and some of its potential controversy, problems, etc.

A friend brought to my attention that Google Talk Labs Edition is available for download. It’s supposed to allow for group chat … give it a shot if you want.

A long time ago I gave Google Reader a tryout and ended up running back to Bloglines.

However, given the fact that Google is always updating it’s projects and adding new features to them, a return visit to Google Reader was probably inevitable. This time around I think I’m about ready to give up Bloglines. One of the decisive factors is Google Reader’s Share feature … which makes it ridiculously easy to post interesting links to the blog. Just add the necessary code to a widget and you’re running.

This doesn’t mean the share feature is perfect. It would be nice to have the option of adding a url and title manually … which would come in handy when you want to share only one link from Arts and Letters Daily or when you stumble across the interesting link from a site you don’t want to subscribe to all the time.

Every now and then I run across a person who does not use an RSS reader. If that happens to be you, please try out the linked sites. It will make your online life easier and help you to waste time more efficiently.