Twitter continues its march of social networking dominance, spurred even further into the spotlight thanks to a recent high profile race to a million followers between Ashton Kutcher and CNN, and Oprah Winfrey’s decision to sign up this past Friday. Along with its massive increase … Read More »
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The key to successful document collaboration, as far as I’ve been able to gather in my many attempts, is making sure that the process is as simple as is absolutely possible. People only seem able or willing to work together on text projects if it takes … Read More »
For many bloggers, RSS subscriber numbers are a fun and useful way to get an approximate read on how many “loyal customers” they have. For others, however, RSS numbers take on a greater significance, impacting such things as advertiser and investor relationships, as well as a … Read More »
In my post on whether coworking spaces could be profitable, I mentioned Graze, an innovative healthy snack delivery service that seems to be taking off here in the UK. Many web workers are fixed to their desks for large portions of the day. Working from … Read More »
SUBERNOVA is a brand-new online project management app for freelancers that helps to manage projects and clients, track time, and keep tabs on milestones and invoices. Unlike many of the project management apps we’ve seen, it’s built in Flash and the interface looks very sleek. After … Read More »
Twitter is incredibly useful for for networking, learning from experts and discovering trends. But in order to get the most out of it and not be overwhelmed, it’s important that you follow those that are useful for your field or business, not every single soul on … Read More »
True Knowledge, an innovative semantic answer engine that’s currently in closed beta, opened its API today. If you’re a developer, the API offers the enticing possibility of adding knowledge-based functionality to your apps. Answer engines are different from search engines in that they provide answers … Read More »
When I reviewed “personal email assistant” Cc:Betty last month, I noted that it was missing a powerful search facility. Apparently I wasn’t the only one asking after it, as the team behind Cc:Betty have updated the service to include search — greatly improving the … Read More »
Nambu is a free social messaging client for Mac OS X. It’s still in beta, but it has swiftly become my client of choice for professional tweeting, thanks to its easy switching between Twitter accounts and a great interface. At the end of last month, … Read More »
YippieMove, a nifty email account transferring service that we’ve covered previously, has just been significantly updated. The web app transfers emails sitting in an old email account — like that Hotmail AOL account that’s gathering dust, but still has emails that you’d like to … Read More »
Xcerion’s iCloud, a free “web OS” that we’ve covered previously, launches into public beta today with some interesting collaboration features, although limited cross-browser support will be off-putting for many. iCloud is an impressive web application. It’s an OS-like desktop, complete with storage space and a … Read More »