Whether you’re diving into social media this summer or still looking for the productivity benefit of all these online social apps, there’s a service I’ve been using the last few weeks that is worthy of you attention: SecondBrain. What SecondBrain does very, very well is combine… Read More »
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Yesterday I learned a brand new trick to teach my iPod that I’ll get to in a moment; what I found interesting was where and how I learned it: at videojug.com. Now I could explain the trick – adding items to my iPod’s top menu –… Read More »
It used to be if you wanted business intelligence software for your company, you’d just write a check for $100,000 to Oracle, SAP or IBM, wait for the 18 cubic feet of paper documentation to arrive, then assign a few dozen programmers you had handy to… Read More »
The next time you get one of those whiny alumni spam pitches for money, pause for a minute before tossing it. It just might be hiding a slick social network-powered backchannel to get your next job. Affinity Circles provides white-label social network sites for over 140… Read More »
One of the things “real” offices have that virtual web worker offices don’t is the break room bulletin board. That’s that shared space you stare at while your coffee is brewing. It’s where the people you work with stick photos of their new babies, garage sale… Read More »
I’m in Tokyo right now and having recently let my .mac account lapse, I’m trying out several different ways of giving my family and friends back home a glimpse of what I’m seeing. Kinverge is a social network designed for just this task. Unlike most social… Read More »
just before a big holiday weekend and an overseas trip my web hosting company’s server for my main email account imploded. For the past day, no email. While that company will go nameless for now (out of respect for three years of great service), I’m definitely thinking… Read More »
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There’s one big downside to dragging all your web-worker gear from venue to venue, Starbucks to client site: you lose things. A mini iPod here, a cell phone there – besides the trauma, drama and cost, you just know you’re never going to see that physical… Read More »
If you don’t work like a deskbound “knowledge worker,” why would you look for next big thing at at a traditional job board? That’s the question StartupAgents is those who are ready to jump into the world of startup software companies will be asking. StartupAgents is… Read More »
The more velocity there is in your working life, the more meetings you attend, or rather suffer through. MyCommittee can’t promise to turn off the spigot on your whinging co board members, but it does hold out the promise that you can plan, structure and organize… Read More »
Online calendaring is one of those “it’s so simple, why can’t developers get it right?” problems – no one solution ever seems to get at the problem without adding complexity to your life. So you pile onto Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, your Evite or similar service,… Read More »
If you’d like to see a bit of your future as a mobile worker, you could do much worse than a quick read of a new report just out with a title that doesn’t do it justice: Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends… Read More »
If you thought Amazon was the lone vendor out there selling virtual application server services, look again: two more companies are battling for the hearts, minds and server infrastructure of the people writing all those web based services web workers use. Nirvanix – who woke… Read More »
Google and its ecosystem of small Mac and Windows developers continue to eat away at the justifications for Microsoft line of products; this week it’s calendar synchronization. Microsoft used to own this game: if you wanted to to be able to share calendars then your organization needed… Read More »
Wouldn’t it be great if you you could keep all of your social networks up to date with whatever you’re blogging, and what’s more, cross post between blogs? At least, that’s the theory behind Six Apart’s new Facebook application, Blog It. Great in theory – but light… Read More »
I don’t know about you, but I’ve completely lost count of how many passwords I have online. 100? 200? I have no idea. And yes, I know, each of them should be unique as more and more of who I am and what I do ends… Read More »
MicroISVs, software developers who have fired their bosses and clients to start their own software companies, work on the bleeding edge of online technology. They are the earliest of adopters, among the fastest to jump on a new tool, idea, process or site that let’s… Read More »
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