Moving to Google Apps

Update: As you are reading this article keep in mind the principles of minimalism (excellent read from Zen Habits) and apply that to ditching your email client. You might have to learn a little something new but few moving parts means less complexity and less opportunity for things to break, and ultimately less work for …Read More

Is Twitter Useful?

These days it seems everyone is talking about, writing about and well… tweeting about Twitter. One of the questions I often get, especially from people who are not Twitter users, or are among my not-so-technical friends, is whether or not Twitter is useful. The answer of course is, in the best consulting speak I can …Read More

TimeBridge – Scheduling Meetings Just Got Easier

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Have you ever had to schedule a meeting with several people, all of whom have conflicting schedules? If so then TimeBridge, an enhancement to your Outlook or Google calendar will feel like it was sent from heaven. The team at TimeBridge has essentially taken a process of coordinating meetings which require a lot of always …Read More

lijit – Search Based On Your Content

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lijit is a new search application designed for publishers, which, with the advent of applications like Twitter, blogs, Facebook, etc… we all are to some degree. lijit enables you to add a search widget (er.. wijit) to your site or blog and return results based on your network of content. For example, if someone searched …Read More

Twitter Applied

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It hasn’t failed to surprise me how many people don’t get an application like Twitter. I will concede that most of the “noise” on Twitter, not unlike much of the noise on the web is just that, “noise.” However, like the web, Gwitter like applications have potential to be more than the “Me-generations” platform for …Read More

Tripit

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I don’t get caught up in every cool new business idea as I often did during the dot com hey day which is a shame as there are probably more good ideas now than there were then. Still, several good ideas make it through and Tripit is one that recently caught my attention. As someone …Read More

Firefox 3

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The long awaited release of Firefox 3 has finally left Beta and is ready for you to download. I’ve been using the new browser for a couple of days now and am very happy with the overall performance. Anyone who has used Firefox for any length of time knows that it could be a memory …Read More

Woopra Review

While taking part in the Dallas WordCamp a couple of weeks ago we were introduced to Woopra but one of the company founders John Pozadzides and given an opportunity to take part in the beta trial of the hosted, real-time website analytics program. The first reaction to Woopra by almost everyone is WOW! Visually the …Read More

Getting more from Google Mail

I’m a huge fan of most Google applications and am consistently turning my web development clients on to the benefits of using GMail for managing e-mail, typically via their own domain and Google Apps. A while back I stumbled upon this post on the official GMail blog explaining how use “multiple” addresses while only needing …Read More