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BookFresh: A Virtual Receptionist

When you’re working on your own, setting up appointments can take you away from more important tasks. Even if the appointment itself is something crucial — a meeting with a client to go over a new project’s specs, say — the back and forth of trying … Read More »

 
 

The original The Show With Ze Frank was described by one of Frank’s many “sports racers” as “one wacky conversation and one hell of a fun ride,” thanks to a lethal combination of high-end interactivity and Frank’s askew sense of humor. And like a wannabe … Read More »

PBworks Introduces Project Edition

PBworks (formerly PBwiki) today introduced PBworks Project Edition, a modified version of the collaborative wiki software that incorporates some project management features. Simple project management functionality, like workflow management, task assignment and milestones, is built right into the tool, so there’s no need to use … Read More »

It has been no secret that companies are moving forward with Android device development at a rapid pace. Phones are being announced all over the place, and speculation has been rampant that netbooks running Android are just a matter of time. The folks at ARCHOS, … Read More »

Gantter Puts MS Project Online

One thing that’s missing from many online project management apps is the ability to plan your projects using a Gantt chart. Many project managers would argue that such apps aren’t really project management tools at all, preferring to stick with “real” PM software like Read More »

As web workers are generally spread across countries, timezones, cultures and organizations, creating and applying coherent management to distributed teams is challenging. Late last year, Celine shared some tips on avoiding conflicts within a teleworking team. Around the same time I came across UK-based “business … Read More »

Stop Procrastinating Now!

Procrastinating? When you’re a one-man-band, you create your own deadlines, and there’s not always someone to look over your shoulder and tell your to get back to work. Here’s a foolproof strategy that’ll help you get back on track, fast. Read More »

More Must Reads

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 »

As part of a special report on Work/Life Balance, BusinessWeek ran a  “Telecommuting: Once a Perk, Now a Necessity,” an interesting story on how remote workers and telecommuting are now being seen as necessary developments for many organizations, rather than perks afforded to a … Read More »

If you’re a regular user of Google Docs, note that you can now take advantage of drawing tools accessible from directly within your documents, presentations and spreadsheets. You can view the announcement of the Insert Drawing tools here. The tools aren’t as rich as the … Read More »

You might have been following Om Malik’s trials and tribulations with AT&T over on GigaOM, which culminated in a very public breakup with his iPhone last month. AT&T is refusing to admit that it has problems with its 3G network. After several people at the … Read More »

We spoke with the inventor of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie, at SXSW. Lie is a CERN alum, alongside the granddaddy of the web, Tim Berners-Lee. Lie is also the CTO of Opera Software, maker of the Opera browser, and works and resides in … Read More »

Wagner James Au, aka Hamlet Au in Second Life, is author of “The Making of Second Life”, a GigaOM contributor and founder of New World Notes. For three years, starting in 2000, Au was hired by Second Life creators Linden Labs as … Read More »

Amber is a blogger for her own blog The Amber Show and a podcaster with her own local show Hey Brooklyn, a weekly chat with the owner of a small creative businesses in the borough. She’s 26 years old, lives in Brooklyn, … Read More »

No, it’s not that Dave Matthews. It’s the other one — aka Gadget Guy — the tech innovator and digital media and deice expert who consults with companies from well-known corporations such as RadioShack to up-and-comers PeopleBrowsr to boxee. Mathews is another big fan … Read More »

I met Nisha Chittal, Associate Editor at CitizenJanePolitics.com, at the SXSW panel “Are Women Taken More Seriously On the Web?” Chittal is also an online producer, editorial board member and political columnist at UniversityChic.com and an intern at ReadWriteWeb. Nisha gives … Read More »

I’ve written before about optimizations for home and office Wi-Fi networks and how to keep public Wi-Fi sessions secure. Xirrus has long provided free tools for monitoring Wi-Fi performance, finding hotspots and more. Now, the company is out with Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector, … Read More »

Over the weekend, I was talking about web application development to a retired friend who was once a top programmer. He doesn’t do a lot of programming anymore, and remarked that application development tools for the web are so fragmented that it’s difficult to stay on … Read More »

Like the concept of streaming live video using Qik, but don’t have a fast 3G connection to stream from your handset? How does Wi-Fi at tens of thousands of locations sound instead? Qik just announced a revenue-sharing deal with Boingo Wireless, which enables Qik … Read More »

Compete.com is out with its latest metrics on audiences for social networks, and web workers may find some surprises in the who’s hot and who’s not roundup. The top 10 list is seen below, and a full list of the Top 25 is available below … Read More »

Recently, when I’ve written about the performance leapfrogging going on between the Firefox and Chrome open source browsers, many people have written in in the comments about how all the benchmark results going on around the web tend to leave Opera out. Opera has always had … Read More »

In my WebWorkerDaily post yesterday, I discussed an article in The Daily Beast in which Tina Brown talks about the gig economy and their research on the changing nature of freelancer jobs and the people found in them. The Daily Beast … Read More »

Is it me or does each day bring either a new social network or a new feature to an old one? I simply can’t keep up. I’ve embraced Twitter, but later moved on to FriendFeed since it consolidates many of my online shenanigans. I was … Read More »

The key to achieving your goals is setting reasonable targets in the first place. Learn from my mistakes and pick up some great tips about goal-setting. Read More »

DownloadSquad has a short item today on QTWeb, an open source Windows browser based on the WebKit rendering engine (also found in Safari and Google Chrome). I’ve used the browser before, but decided to try out the newest version, which has quite a … Read More »

WebWorkerDaily has covered many time management, to-do list, and calendaring applications such as RememberTheMilk and Toodledo. There are many good applications in this space, but the tricky part with many of them is that they are intensely personal, and the way they work may not … Read More »

Some 95 percent of all digital music downloads continue to be pirated, according to estimates released today by music industry trade group IFPI. Those numbers don’t translate well for online video, especially as streaming sites like Hulu start to see significant traction, but … Read More »

Motionbox, which has carved out a nice spot in the market for its paid personal video-sharing service, has raised $6 million in a Series C round led by Constellation Ventures and including Canaan Partners and SAS Investors. Alongside the round, the New York City-based company … Read More »

We’ve recently covered opportunities for web workers who need work, including our interview with Gary Swart, CEO of online staffing marketplace oDesk, and resources for web workers who have recently lost their employment. Whether you’re looking for places to work, or looking to launch … Read More »

Free online meeting applications, such as Yugma, which I wrote about yesterday, have gotten very powerful in recent years, but they still don’t do all the cool things they could do. Few of them offer any sophisticated way to deal with video, especially high-definition video, … Read More »

This morning, we published an article by a guest contributor. Approximately 30 minutes after the post was published, we were made aware that the freelance contributor had already submitted and published the exact same article on another site. As soon as the duplication was brought … Read More »

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