There are new web apps every day and many of them are good. But, there is also only 24 hours in a day and other things to do besides just testing out the latest and the greatest and the coolest and the hottest. So, what are we to do? Look for the latest and greatest way to filter the noise.

It seemed that every time our favorite Twitter AIR app Twhirl was updated, Alert Thingy followed suit and vice versa. Both struggled to integrate FriendFeed into their stream while still providing the best Twitter-on-the-desktop…

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Interesting article on how alert services can make you smarter without doing anything.

One example: you subscribe to an alert service that notifies you if a US tennis player wins a tournament on the ATP tour. If you havent received an alert for the last two months and somebody asks you about it, you could tell him that in the…

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Interesting insights into where Digg helps to overcome information overload and where it does not.

As Techcrunch points out, this is not only Digg’s secret: many successful Web 2.0 services aim to make it easier for people to deal with the mountain of information they are facing every day. And due to the scope of the information…

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