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Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.
Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:
Oboe, an AI educational platform that generates personalized, interactive courses
WordCounter, a free tool for analyzing your texts
Fable, a full-featured social reading app
⏭️ In brief
💡Recommended by: Eric Hauck
Oboe, an AI educational platform that generates personalized, interactive courses
Oboe is an artificial intelligence-based learning platform that allows users to generate their own training courses on any subject from a simple prompt describing their learning goal.
Oboe creates straightforward courses on the chosen topic and presents the content in a variety of formats (text, audio, games, quizzes…). Users must register for free to access and complete the full course.
The platform does not work as a conversational chatbot — instead, it delivers the course already organized into modules.
Oboe operates on a freemium model: users can access public courses at no cost and create up to five personalized courses for free. Beyond that, several paid options are available that expand the possibilities.
Oboe was launched last year by Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano following the sale to Spotify of their previous product, the podcast creation platform Anchor.
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WordCounter, a free tool for analyzing your texts
WordCounter is a free tool that, in addition to counting the words and characters in whatever text you are writing, shows you the 10 most frequently used words and word combinations — which can help you avoid overusing certain words or phrases.
The tool also provides the number of sentences and paragraphs in your text and displays its density (how many words you use per sentence), helping you assess how well it flows.
Additionally, WordCounter offers, among other information, the average reading and speaking time for your text, as well as an indicator of the educational level a reader would need to understand it.
WordCounter also includes a number of other practical writing-related tools, such as a webpage word counter, a tool for listing words in alphabetical order, and a tool for adding academic citations correctly, among others.
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Fable is a social reading app that brings together a range of features for readers in a single environment: book tracking, participation in reading clubs, and an e-book reader, among others.
Fable has been part of Scribd for the past year. Scribd is the parent company of the knowledge platform Scribd, the professional presentation creation tool Slideshare, the subscription content platform Everand (e-books, audiobooks, and podcasts), and the social reading experience platform Fable.
Fable is a project deeply focused on community and conversation around books.
Among its features, Fable offers:
Curated lists of books and TV series created by experts, authors, and other readers.
Thousands of reading clubs moderated by authors, celebrities, or fellow readers.
An integrated reader that lets you read e-books within the app, highlight, take notes, and more.
Reading tracking and organization.
A personalized social feed with reviews, lists, news, and other content.
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⏭️ In Brief
The winners of six of the eight Princess of Asturias Awards 2026 have been announced:
Patti Smith (Arts)
Studio Ghibli (Communication and Humanities)
David Klenerman, Shankar Balasubramanian and Pascal Mayer (Technical and Scientific Research)
Svalbard Global Seed Vault (International Cooperation)
Timothy Garton Ash (Social Sciences)
Leo Messi (Sports)
The winner in the Literature category will be announced on June 10, and the Concord category on June 17.
SpaceX has launched a website dedicated to what is expected to be the largest IPO in history. Shares in Elon Musk's company are set to begin trading on June 12.
The New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger delivered a forceful speech this week at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress, accusing AI companies of stealing media content and urging news organizations to defend their rights in order to secure a sustainable future for journalism:
💡 Recommended by: Eric Hauck
Name: Eric Hauck
Role: Journalist and diplomat
Links: Book “Desmemòria letal” | Eric Hauck (Wikipedia) | Newsletter “Knowhauck”
Recommended resource: The podcasts "Aujourd'hui l'Afrique" by RFI Monde (Radio France Internationale) (Available on the RFI Pure Radio app)
Why?
There are currently 50 active armed conflicts in the world, threatening millions of civilians with violent death, starvation, deportation, and forced displacement — as well as oblivion, disease, and extreme poverty caused by the institutional, social, and environmental collapse of dozens of states that are collateral victims of the great powers' struggle to extract the natural resources needed to feed the illiberal monster of technocratic, predatory capitalism. Many of these overlooked conflicts continue to play out across Africa. RFI, pushing back against mainstream disinformation and information overload, keeps amplifying African voices. Its podcasts on the app, produced by local journalists, are a small light in the darkness.
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