If you’re looking for another reason to stop using desktop applications, here’s one: with TypeRoom Lite, you can edit your web site from any browser…for free. Presently in open beta, TypeRoom Lite will load a copy of any web page you want, let you edit… Read More »
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Anyone who’s ever tried to collaborate live on the web with other people, be it making a presentation, sharing a desktop or just talking about what they see, quickly learns the difference between theory and reality. The theory is web collaboration is so easy. The reality… Read More »
While a picture is often worth a thousand words, being able to marry your words to your pictures or video and letting anyone you want add their words effortlessly makes VoiceThread a unique and powerful tool. With VoiceThread, you start with a image – it might… Read More »
Here’s a possible update on the old saying, “Those who can: do. Those who can’t: teach.” Those who need to teach, train or monetize their skills use moodle. There’s about a bazillion Content Management Systems out there, with more being released into the wild daily,… Read More »
As much as I love bloggers, very few bloggers can beat professional writers when those writers labor sometimes months on a 15,000 word story for the New York Times Magazine or The New Yorker, interviewing dozens of people and officials, going where the story is really… Read More »
We’ve all been on one side or another of one of those damn boomerang task emails: you know, the one where someone wants you to do X and then emails bounce back and forth, back and forth as you (or they) work. TaskAnyone has… Read More »
Yesterday, the European Union’s Antitrust Commission fined Microsoft another $1.3 billion for not complying with its 2004 anti-trust order to share its undocumented server APIs with competitors until October 2007, bringing total fines in the case to $2.5 billion. Yesterday’s fine covers the period between June… Read More »
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Since I started writing for Web Worker Daily last month, I’ve been trying to remember a web app I’d seen a year ago that make it possible to catch up on a lot of breaking online news in just a few minutes. That app was
A few weeks ago Bob Walsh had the opportunity to interview Getting Things Done author David Allen on a variety of topics. Read the concluding part 3, where Bob asks him about his new book and the conversation focuses on the core of GTD. Read More »
Part 2 of WWD’s 3 part interview with GTD Author David Allen. In this conversation, WWD writer Bob Walsh and Allen talk about web working and GTD, and Allen’s plans for a web application. Read More »
For many web workers, a big stress reduction tool has been David Allen’s “Getting Things Done.” It’s a bit of a cult/religious movement for some, with good reason for its promise of relieving the mind by removing the data and details that bog it down. Earlier… Read More »
Bowing to what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the changing landscape of the IT industry and others call pressure from EU anti-trust actions, Microsoft announced today the release of some of its technical crown jewels: the heretofore secret APIs Microsoft products used to talk with each… Read More »
Backpack, 37signals lightweight online information organizer has just morphed into a very handy intranet for web worker online businesses with the addition of multiuser page, calendar, messaging and reminder functions. “The concept of an intranet has been perverted over the years to be a bunch of… Read More »
What if any page on the Internet – any web application, shared document, blog – had a back side you could use to track what you wanted to and be able to easily share that with your fellow web workers via email, for free? That’s what… Read More »
Late Friday Google redefined who you are on the net with the release into the wild of the Google Social Graph API. Last week, your Amazon profile didn’t know who your connections were on Plaxo Pulse, your career history on LinkedIn or that you were… Read More »
In a surprise move, Microsoft proposed today to buy Yahoo! for approximately $44.6 billion in cash and stock. “We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete… Read More »
If web site bookmarking is something you do day in and day out, there’s a new bookmarking tool you need to add to your browser – Instapaper (via TechCrunch). The side project of Marco Arment, creator of the very cool micro-blogging service
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