I really like feedly, a firefox plugin which is a nice wrap on the staid google reader interface. Feedly borrows some nice ideas from stumbleupon and tries to build a recommendation engine for google reader fanatics. It also provides the karma of ones tweets, tracks (quite effectively) ‘clicks’ on one’s shared tweets from various clients. The reco engine needs some tweaking since it “browses” the “reader” “feed” articles rather than performing a contextual browse. The GUI is super cool and i think it is jQuery based though i might be wrong. Feedly in it’s new avatar (it has undergone a slow and meticulous transformation from the experimental first days) is the brain child of Edwin Khodabakchian, whose team gave the world the best of the breed BPEL engine from collaxa and now the flagship product of Oracle Fusion middleware / SOA Suite.
Tweetdeck is well known as THE twitter client but does not install neatly on linux ( i use the Fedora 11) other than by root since it installs in opt and there is no way one can change that. The best feature of tweetdeck that i like is the tweet translate specially if your Dutch knowledge is as dark as the “nacht” 
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Fedora 11 is cool cool stable distro but if you want to really use skype please install on windows (if your grub still works).
Skype “locks” the Default device / Pulse and you just cannot listen to youtube and receive a call together on linux.
The inherent mic issue can be solved by
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
and then If the audio out is crackling, add the following two lines to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf:
default-fragments = 20
default-fragment-size-msec = 5
It is always advisable to restart pulseaudio after the changes via
pulseaudio --kill
pulseaudio --daemonize
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