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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:

StoryGraph is a website and app where book lovers can log the titles they've read and get recommendations for their next reads based on their mood and favorite themes.

Founded in 2019, StoryGraph has grown into a global community of more than five million readers who use the platform to log their books, track their reading progress, set goals, and find their next great read.

Many users see the platform as an independent alternative to Goodreads, which is owned by e-commerce giant Amazon.

StoryGraph offers detailed stats, personalized recommendations, buddy reads, giveaways, and community challenges, among other features. The platform, available on the web and as an app for iOS and Android, offers free basic services as well as a paid option with additional features.

StoryGraph recently announced a partnership with Rakuten's Kobo e-book platform, giving Kobo readers access to StoryGraph's features.

Here are some of the services StoryGraph offers:

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Riverside, one of the most popular podcast creation tools, has published a handy ten-step guide on how to start a podcast in 2026.

The guide, created by podcaster Stephen Robles, aims to help users interested in launching their own podcast.

The guide's ten steps are:

In addition to this guide, Riverside offers another useful free resource: the course “Master the Art of Podcasting,” taught by podcast executive producer and journalist Rebecca Sananès.

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HubSpot has recently published an article offering a practical introduction to the open source AI ecosystem for marketers, highlighting its key advantages — transparency, data control, lower cost — and reviewing 10 specific tools with hands-on notes on what they do well and where they fall short.

The author starts from a key premise: unlike "black box" tools like ChatGPT or Gemini, open source AI solutions let you inspect the code, adapt models, and keep tighter control over sensitive marketing data — budgets, campaigns, funnels, and more. The piece also notes that many of these tools are cheaper and already being used for content creation, workflow automation, campaign analysis, and building custom conversational assistants.

Rather than a deep technical benchmark, it's a field test built for marketers: the author sends the same prompt to each tool ("write an outline for a post about the 10 best open source AI tools for marketers") and evaluates speed, output quality, marketing relevance, and overall user experience. Along the way, they flag risks too — biases, incomplete answers, clunkier interfaces, onboarding friction — and frame the piece as a starting point for readers to experiment and find the right mix of tools for their own needs.

The 10 tools covered

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