The news that Yahoo is planning on shutting its popular social bookmarking service Delicious is concerning, particularly if you’ve used it to store a large number of bookmarks. Fortunately, Delicious makes it really easy to make a backup of your bookmarks as an HTML file: Read more »
According to a leaked presentation, Yahoo is planning on shutting down Delicious. That’s bad news for users of the social bookmarking tool, but fortunately there are several excellent alternatives. While none of them is an exact like-for-like replacement, they offer a selection of useful bookmarking features: Read more »
Freelancer.com today released its Freelancer 50 report, looking at the growth of various job categories on its marketplace in the third quarter. The findings should prove particularly encouraging for mobile developers, with the report showing the growth in the “Mobile Phone” category at a staggering 145 percent. Read more »
Over the weekend, the servers of Gawker Media were hacked. Account data, including usernames and passwords of blog commenters, have been stolen. If you have an account on a Gawker blog and use the same password anywhere else, it’s imperative that you change those passwords immediately. Read more »
Yesterday, we held our inaugural Net:Work conference at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. While we discussed technology at length, what it really all boiled down to was people: how we can better connect, communicate and collaborate with each other. Read more »
Collaboration tools are reshaping organizations, John Hagel III and John Seely Brown of Deloitte Center for the Edge told attendees at GigaOM’s Net:Work conference in San Francisco. The edges of an enterprise — as opposed to its core — now have access to the power tools. Read more »
WorkWyze is a team-based task management app that’s designed with the needs of team leaders in mind. It has a simple workflow that makes it easy to delegate, track and prioritize tasks, and makes it clear who owns each task and what its status is. Read more »
Google has identified a bug in Website Optimizer, its website testing and optimization tool, which means that it is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. While the likelihood of such an attack is low, users need to update the code running on their sites. Read more »
Gmail’s Priority Inbox feature — a smart feature that learns which of your emails are the most important and displays them in a separate inbox — now provides feedback on why it considers particular emails important and has a tweaked algorithm that should mean it learns faster. Read more »
My favorite Mac clipboard management tool is Jumpcut, an open-source app that makes it easy to rapidly select previously copied items via the keyboard, but if you prefer a more visual, drag ‘n’ drop approach, you should check out Ayluro’s Corkboard. Read more »
How much does it cost to rent a desk at a coworking space? Deskwanted, a online marketplace that connects “desk hunters” with coworking spaces, has carried out a global study to determine average coworking costs in the U.S., the UK and Europe. Read more »
Meetzi is an app that helps make meetings more focused, actionable and on time. You can use it to build and distribute agendas; keep your meetings on track using its built-in timer tools; and then use it to share notes and after the meeting has finished. Read more »
Congratulations to Phil Wolff, the winner of our Net:Work ticket giveaway from earlier this week. Don’t be too disappointed if you didn’t win, though, because I’ve managed to secure a special $100 discount for WWD readers. The event’s just one week away, so register today! Read more »
Xmarks, a popular free browser bookmarks synchronization service with some 4.5 million users that was threatened with closure, has announced that it has been acquired by LastPass, a provider of cross-platform password management tools, in a deal that will enable the service to continue to operate. Read more »
Web geeks rejoice! 24 ways, an advent calendar for web designers and developers, has returned for its sixth year. Every day until Dec. 24, a new article will be published on the site, covering topics such as design, CSS and JavaScript techniques and business development tips. Read more »
Online note-taking app maker Evernote today released the beta of the next major version of its client for Mac. It includes a couple of very useful new features: in-app notebook sharing and notebook stacks, which provide a way to organize notebooks. Read more »
Net:Work, our conference about the future of work, is happening in San Francisco next week, and I’ve got a ticket to give away to one lucky reader. Simply leave a comment below telling us what your favorite collaboration tool is and why. Read more »
Shrib is a no-signup scratch pad for storing notes and jottings online. It’s dead simple to use: Type out your notes, give them a name and hit the “Save notes” button. You can then share your notes with anyone else by sending them your URL. Read more »
One of the key topics that we’ll be discussing at our Net:Work conference is how to manage workers remotely. As the workforce becomes more mobile and distributed, with people working on projects on an ad-hoc basis, it’s a problem that more businesses will need to tackle. Read more »
Perch, an ultra-lightweight CMS, has just been updated with some nifty new features, including the ability to preview changes to pages before committing to them, and multi-level undo. These two new features, in particular, should be handy for sites being updated by less tech-savvy users. Read more »
Aviary’s suite of nifty online Flash-based editing tools have been covered a few times here on WWD, but the company has now announced that its added an HTML5-based photo editor, codenamed Feather, to the lineup. That’s great news for people who can’t (or won’t) install Flash Read more »
One of the panels I’m most looking forward to moderating at Net:Work next month is “Flexi Spaces and Coworking, What Works in the World of Work?” We’ll bring together some workspace experts to discuss how to build places that encourage inspiration, innovation and collaboration. Read more »
The beta of Opera 11, released today, continues Opera Software’s tradition of innovating in the browser space by introducing a neat new feature: tab stacking. The idea is that users can stack tabs to group them by site or by theme, reducing clutter. Read more »
As most of the world is aware, Facebook launched its Social Inbox feature last week. The unified messaging system pipes online and mobile communication functions people use — SMS, instant messaging, Facebook chat messages — into a single inbox. On the face of it, having just ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
It’s now less than three weeks to our first Net:Work conference, where we’ll be bringing together executives, VCs, HR professionals, web workers and entrepreneurs to discuss the “human cloud” and the future of work. So what can attendees expect to learn? Read more »
Last week, Facebook launched its Social Inbox feature. The unified messaging system pipes the online and mobile communication functions people use into a single inbox. Having just one place to communicate with everyone seems like a good idea, but is Social Inbox the future of email? Read more »
I think the most important attributes of a time tracking app are that it should be incredibly simple to use and available everywhere, so that you track all of your time using the app. Fortunately, Toggl scores on both those counts. Read more »
One of the sessions I’m most looking forward to at Net:Work, Designing the Organization for Real-Time Collaboration, relates to how companies using collaboration tools are adapting to those tools. How are you using collaboration tools, and how have they shaped your work and your organization? Read more »
Dooity is a free lightweight online task management app. It’s simple, written in HTML5 and is very fast. It also has a few neat features, like tagging, keyboard shortcuts, an API and offline access, that make it worth checking out. Read more »
There’s been a lot of fuss generated about “social email” lately, particularly in the wake of Facebook’s Social Inbox announcement. harmon.ie is a family of products that aims to bring that kind of concept to the enterprise and drive user adoption of SharePoint and Google Docs. Read more »
HP today announced it’s releasing a new line of high-definition videoconferencing products. These new Visual Collaboration products provide a solution that not only works via hardware installed in conference rooms, but can also be accessed on desktop and laptop computers. Read more »
ClearContext Personal, an add-in for for Outlook, wants to help make your inbox time more productive. It automatically files unimportant emails into categorized groups, taking it out of your inbox. It’s all done completely automatically, with no need to set up complex inbox rules. Read more »
Popular task management app Remember the Milk (RTM) has spawned a number of third-party desktop clients, but the best one that I’ve found so far is called App for the Milk. It’s a slimline desktop client that’s based on AIR, so works on cross-platform. Read more »
One of the things that I’m looking forward to the most at Net:Work is the Future Ideas Launchpad, where we’ll highlight the companies seizing the opportunities in the human cloud. After much deliberation, we’ve whittled a very strong field of entries down to our eight finalists. Read more »
If the rumors are to be believed, Facebook is about to unveil a new email service. It might just be part of the ongoing war between Facebook and Google, but what’s interesting about it is it will show how much potential there is in email still. Read more »
If you like the idea of online scheduling tool Tom’s Planner but find that’s it’s a bit basic for your needs, you might like to check out Ganttic. It’s collaborative, has a similar Flash-based drag-and-drop interface and more robust project management features. Read more »
More and more, web apps are becoming interconnected with one another. In general, of course, this is a very good thing, but it nonetheless introduces dependencies between these apps. And as more apps come to rely on one another to provide critical services in our day-to-day ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
As we’re coming to rely on various web apps to an ever-greater extent in our day-to-day work lives, the impact on our productivity of these apps failing increases. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how interconnected some of the web apps we use are becoming, too. Read more »
The Pomodoro Technique is a productivity methodology that helps you to stay focused on a task by breaking up your day into 25-minute work stints followed by five-minute breaks. Here are a selection of free apps that can be used to time your pomodoros: Read more »
Google might be shutting down Wave, but the company is at least making it easier to get the information that’s currently stored in the tool out of it again. You can now opt to export the content of a wave as a Zip file. Read more »
