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March 30, 2009
In Media
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Readability

arc90 has developed a clever way to clean up web pages in order to make it easier to consume content. With a simple customizing tool, you can specify your reading preferences with characteristics like style (newspaper, novel, ebook or terminal), size and margin. Your settings are saved to a bookmarklet that upon click will remove everything on any web page except the article, photos and anything else that is relates to the article.

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There are similar services popping up like TinyRead and a nifty app called PrintWhatYouLike that allows you to format web content for printing.

Try it: Drag the link below to your browser’s bookmark bar then click the bookmark to see Readability in action.

December 2, 2008
In Los Angeles, Media, Showoffs, Twiistup 5, event
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Tech Heavyweight Brian Solis to Judge at Twiistup 5

Brian Solis is an entrepeneur, renown author, technology thought leader, photographer, and publisher of two top Technorati blogs, PR 2.0 and bub.blicio.us.

He documents the rapid evolution of products, services and trends and how businesses and consumers can actually use these tools. He is also an active leader in spotlighting and cultivating new tech startups and emerging visionaries.

Brian will be on hand at Twiistup 5 to document the event for his popular publications and to help determine the Judge’s Choice Award. If you haven’t had the opportunity to connect with Brian yet, you’re in for a treat at Twiistup 5. He’s a big supporter of all of the great things happening for LA tech and has been involved with Twiistup since the beginning.