Trends and Issues in Extension

Wired has some basic intro points on using Facebook. Very brief, somewhat general, but also useful.

I’ve been lazily thumbing through Mark Frauenfelder’s book Rule the Web for the last several weeks. Then I came across this review by Kevin Kelly in his Cool Tools site (highly recommend site!). Kevin gives a nice, brief review. The book focuses on how to use the web more efficiently and effectively. Hence the subtitle “How to do anything and everything on the internet – better, faster, easier”. 

Cool and useful stuff. Read Kevin’s review and see his example. Some of the things I learned include finding promo codes, using a mobile phone to check prices while in a store, getting magazine articles, how to use one time credit card numbers and a host of other neat tricks. Like Kevin I’ve found myself ear-tagging several pages and marking them up. This is also a great book to simply jump around and look for the cool stuff. I’ve been skimming it and just simply opening it up to a section. The sections are brief and easy to use.

Mark is a creator of Boing Boing. If you are online a lot this book will be useful. Highly recommended.