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Planetaki Planet WWD 2008-03-13T14:30:36+00:00 planetaki.com:309 Planetaki - Planet WWD hello@planetaki.com Zapproved: Streamline Decisions 2008-08-20T15:37:16+00:00 2008-08-20T15:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6367829

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2781301072" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/2781301072_10eb0d45c2_t.jpg" border="0" height="42" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="100" /></a>Do distributed teams need a better solution for tracking and making decisions? <strong><a href="http://www.zapproved.com/Welcome" target="_blank">Zapproved</a></strong> thinks so, and they’ve built a tool to be that solution. The idea is relatively simple: when you’ve got a proposal that needs to be signed off on by everyone on your team, you create it in Zapproved’s web interface. The service then sends emails to everyone with great big “Approve”, “Deny”, and “Comment” buttons. An online console lets you track the progress of your proposals towards (hopefully) group acceptance.</p> <p>Zapproved also lets you attach files to documents, as well as setting due dates, priorities, and project names. Although you need an account to use the service, the others on your team do no. If your team is distributed and you spend an inordinate amount of time chasing down consensus on routine matters, it’s worth a look. Zapproved is free while in beta, though they do say there will be a charge at launch.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3427&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3427" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3427/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3427&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3427 Zapproved: Streamline Decisions 2008-08-20T15:37:16+00:00 Double Shot #273 2008-08-20T10:52:58+00:00 2008-08-20T02:42:23+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6351979

<p>Shipped off a major piece of work last night - now waiting to see if the client is happy. Always fun.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ruby-roger-useful-functions/wiki/EnglishLikeQueries" target="_blank">EnglishLikeQueries</a> - A DSL for Rails for people who don’t think in SQL.</li> <li><a href="http://dryicons.com/free-icons/preview/coquette-icons-set/" target="_blank">Coquette</a> - New set of free, rounded, shadowed, hi-res icons. I expect we’ll see quite a bit of them. (via <a href="http://www.webappers.com/2008/08/19/coquette-50-free-icons-in-5-sizes-and-png-format/" target="_blank">WebAppers</a>)</li> </ul>

http://afreshcup.com/?p=925 Double Shot #273 2008-08-20T10:52:58+00:00 You don’t need 1 blog: you need 3. 2008-08-20T01:01:47+00:00 2008-08-20T00:34:55+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6332139

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/notionscapital/2493066577/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2138/2493066577_d1006bcec3.jpg" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a>One of my clients last week asked me about beta blogs: why, how and what’s the tradeoffs? It got me thinking both back to 2004 when I first started a blog as a brazen and shameless way of getting some attention for my first microISV product. And it got me thinking forward: If I were a developer in my 20s who preferred being at the top of the payscale instead of the bottom, would I blog and if so what about?</p> <p>If you are that archetypal 20’s developer, working for The Man but burning with a desire to do a startup, I see three blogs in your future:</p> <p>1. <strong>A “professional me” blog</strong> where you get to geek out about the languages, frameworks and algorithms you get to play with. That blog will be your communications endpoint as a developer; it’s how you connect with other developers blogging, how you build a body of posts over time that prove your technical chops to prospective clients, employers and partners.</p> <p>Professional blogs are just that: professional. Skip posting the cell phone pics from your last big party, complaints about your boss and other personal stuff. Instead, share your passion about what you are spending most of your waking hours doing, cool techniques that save you time and in general, reach out to the online programming community.</p> <p>2. <strong>Your private beta blog.</strong> Somewhere between being a gleam in your eye and being credit card bait, your desktop app or SaaS needs some place that makes it dirt easy for your private beta testers to funnel you honest feedback. Note the word private. It used to be that betas were periods you traded free software for a chance to try your app out on a variety of other people’s boxes; Google’s perpetual betas and the realities of Internet marketing circa 2008 have moved “beta” from the engineering to the marketing column. Put another way, everything on the public ‘net is beta.</p> <p>But <em>private</em> beta testers are another matter: they are doing you a huge favor and the easier you make it for them, the better your results will be. You want to create a trusted place on the net where you and they can say things not part of the public discourse about your product or service.</p> <p>For example, you can create a free blog at <a href="http://wordpress.com" target="_blank">wordpress.com</a>, <a href="http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/can-i-password-protect-my-whole-blog/" target="_blank">password protect it</a> and only make it available to beta testers (35 or less: if you have more, spring for a workpress.com upgrade for $30/yr.). Or you could do the same thing at <a href="http://www.vox.com/" target="_blank">Vox.com</a>, with the catch that your beta testers would need to create free vox.com accounts. For that matter, you could create a blog at TypePad and initially password protect it.</p> <p>The point is, you want to make it as easy as possible for your beta testers to give you real feedback. And blogs are all about feedback.</p> <p>3. <strong>Your product’s blog.</strong> Actually, product blog is a misnomer and a pit trap: you don’t want or need a product blog, you want and need a blog about the intersection between your [prospective] customers and your expertise, passion, perspective and occasionally product. If you’ve launched a startup or microISV, presumedly you know a lot more than the problem domain your product or service lives in than do your customers. <strong>Share that knowledge and passion</strong> - it’s a great way to establish your expertise, authority and standing.</p> <p>You can start your product blog before, when or after you launch; blogging is one of the best ways a startup or microISV can get the word out and get market feedback in. Just go light on the marketing mayo and provide your readers with plenty they can sink their teeth into: everything from customer stories to solutions, workarounds and fixes that complement your product are fair game.</p>

http://www.47hats.com/?p=662 You don’t need 1 blog: you need 3. 2008-08-20T01:01:47+00:00 Will Linux Find its Way Onto Your Computer? 2008-08-19T23:11:27+00:00 2008-08-19T23:00:59+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6328373

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>While the majority of readers here use Mac and Windows systems, I’m consistently surprised at how many readers also use one form of Linux or another. Judging from anecdotal evidence I’ve seen in the reader comments, the folks who do use Linux use it as an ancillary tool, secondary to the operating systems they spend most of their time in. Recently, this positioning of Linux as an ancillary tool has picked up steam. Even if you don’t use Linux at all now, the trend may affect you.</p> <p><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3258/2779489778_0abd62b0bd_o.jpg" height="100" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" width="80" /></p> <p>Over on the OStatic blog, <a href="http://ostatic.com/163523-blog/asus-laptops-to-offer-linux-based-instant-on-features" target="_blank">we’ve written</a> about Splashtop, which is Linux-based instant-on software found on many of Asus’ systems. Splashtop isn’t the primary OS on systems that use it; instead, it allows users to flip in and out of a Linux-based OS for on-the-fly tasks, when it’s undesirable to wait for a lengthy system boot-up.</p> <p>Our sister blog GigaOm recently did a <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/06/22/what-makes-a-good-cloud-computer/" target="_blank">good piece</a> on what’s missing from the current crop of netbook systems. “Instant-on” was at the top of the lengthy wish list.</p> <p>Today, DeviceVM, the company that makes Splashtop announced that it <a href="http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/08/devicevm-gets-v.html#more" target="_blank">has received $15 million</a> of Series C venture funding–in addition to the good will it has from Asus. On top of that, the instant-on Linux concept has also made its way into the new Windows-based Dell e4300 laptop, which Mike Gunderloy <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/08/17/dell-gets-closer-to-deam-machine/" target="_blank">writes about here</a>.</p> <p>It’s very useful to be able to access e-mail, the web, and various applications without waiting for a full system boot. This is an ideal space for Linux, where there are many compact, purpose-driven distros to work with.</p> <p>For some observers in the Linux crowd, this application of Linux may seem to ghettoize an OS that they care about, but especially in the case of the Dell laptops, it could make Linux useful for a lot more people. That’s also true of the Linux-based netbooks from Asus, Acer, and others.</p> <p>Meanwhile, several blogs today <a href="http://www.proliferationoflinux.org/2008/08/19/dells-sub-notebook-to-ship-with-ubuntu/" target="_blank">are reporting</a> that Dell’s new sub-notebook will ship with Ubuntu pre-loaded, and Dell has been expanding its line of systems based on Linux. The two large, public companies that have had widespread success with Linux–Red Hat and Novell–don’t build their business strategies around Linux on the desktop. In fact, they both say that they don’t have much focus on the desktop because of the success they have elsewhere. However, whether Linux makes its way to you as an ancillary, on-the-fly convenience, or in a low-cost, offbeat portable computer that might be an adjunct to what you use all the time, it may creep up on you.</p> <p><em>Is Linux on your radar or do you already use it?</em></p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3425&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3425" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3425/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3425&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3425 Will Linux Find its Way Onto Your Computer? 2008-08-19T23:11:27+00:00 VisualCV Puts Your Best Foot Forward 2008-08-19T21:08:54+00:00 2008-08-19T21:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6322972

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2778489785" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3090/2778489785_27ab69917b_m.jpg" border="0" height="64" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="240" /></a>As a web worker, you likely gave up sending out paper resumes long ago. But is the online profile that you show prospective employers anything more than a marked-up copy of that old version? If so, <strong><a href="http://www.visualcv.com/" target="_blank">VisualCV</a></strong> wants to help you bring that hoary old document into the web age. After a free registration, you can create your VisualCV, you end up in the company’s browser-based editor. Here you can add and edit typical sections like “Objective”, “Work History”, and “Education” to your CV.</p> <p>But things don’t stop there. What makes VisualCV stand out is the variety of content that you can add to areas like the Portfolio sidebar. Web sites you’re proud of creating? Put up screenshots. Video or audio recordings to show off your people skills? Put those in too. The end result is somewhere between a traditional resume and a single-page portfolio web site. VisualCV also offers you control over who can see your work, and lets you create multiple versions to put forth a different persona to different readers. Best of all, it’s all free.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3422&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3422" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3422/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3422&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3422 VisualCV Puts Your Best Foot Forward 2008-08-19T21:08:54+00:00 GooSync Adds Support for Multiple Devices 2008-08-19T20:08:51+00:00 2008-08-19T20:00:36+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6320113

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://goosync.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://webworkerdaily.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/img-goosync.png?w=281&h=74" height="74" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" align="right" width="281" /></a><a href="http://goosync.com" title="GooSync - Home" target="_blank">GooSync</a>, the handy mobile synchronization service that we’ve <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/10/keep-your-mobile-device-in-sync-with-goosync/" title="WWD - Keep your mobile device in sync with goosync" target="_blank">covered in the past</a>, today announced an upgrade that allows you to add multiple devices to your Premium account.</p> <p>In a nutshell, GooSync facilitates an over the air synchronization of your Google calendars and contacts with up to 4 mobile devices. It is possible for each device to have separate settings to control specifically which calendars or contact categories are synchronized, but they all must connect to the same Google account.</p> <p>A free account is still available but multiple device support is just one of the really nice extra features of a Premium account. It runs about $40/year, a real bargain in my opinion for the ability to stay up to date no matter where I am.</p> <p><em>Is multi-device support important to you?</em></p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3416&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3416" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3416/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3416&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3416 GooSync Adds Support for Multiple Devices 2008-08-19T20:08:51+00:00 BrowsePal: When Link Sharing Isn’t Good Enough 2008-08-19T19:04:35+00:00 2008-08-19T18:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6317338

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2777341833" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3013/2777341833_deb13068b6_m.jpg" border="0" height="38" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="240" /></a>There are plenty of ways to point other people at content on the web that you find useful or interesting: services like del.icio.us, email, instant messaging. But sometimes link sharing can get to be a nuisance. That’s where <strong><a href="http://www.browsepal.com/browsepal/pages/home.php" target="_blank">BrowsePal</a></strong> comes in: it’s a no-setup, no-cost co-browsing system.</p> <p>Using BrowsePal is easy: navigate to their home page and click the “Co-browse” link, and then send the URL they give you in return to another user (or many other users). They support directly sending via email or Twitter, or you can cut and paste the link to your IM application of choice. Your friend opens that link in your browser, and voila, they see your BrowsePal session and can follow along.</p> <p>One good use case for this is with BrowsePal’s built-in support for Google Maps; start a map browsing session and your co-browser can see all of the panning and zooming you do, along with any search results. If you wanted to be on the phone walking someone through the route for a trip, this would be an excellent follow-along aid.</p> <p>There are other built-in types of co-browsing sessions, but the most useful one is simply to start with a Google search and go from there. Whatever pages you visit will show in your browser and in the other browser, letting you create a guided trip through the web.</p> <p>There are limits to the technology: no SSL support, the “Home” button of your browser will take you out of BrowsePal, cookie-based sites won’t work the same on the viewing browser as they do on the original browser. But given the extremely low friction of BrowsePal, it’s worth having around as one of the tools that you have to call on.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3401&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3401" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3401/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3401&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3401 BrowsePal: When Link Sharing Isn’t Good Enough 2008-08-19T19:04:35+00:00 BlastGroups Offers Simple Yet Poweful Group Sharing Platform 2008-08-19T18:01:11+00:00 2008-08-19T17:00:12+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6314114

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://blastgroups.com" title="BlastGroups - Home" target="_blank"><img src="http://webworkerdaily.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/img-blastgroups.png?w=225&h=69" height="69" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="BlastGroups - Logo" align="right" width="225" /></a>The web brings with it great opportunities to connect with others centered around just about any common interest, and there are a multitude of tools and services available to help facilitate this. A new player in this area is <a href="http://blastgroups.com" title="BlastGroups - Home" target="_blank">BlastGroups</a>, which is entering public beta today.</p> <p>BlastGroups makes it really easy to create your own community site where you can share just about anything with your group. Features include message boards, email blasts, events, pictures, videos, audio and more. The interface is simple and logical without a lot of flash or flair. Toolbar bookmarks make “Sending a Blast” to your groups or contacts remarkably simple. Integrated RSVP functionality make the calendar really useful for event planning.</p> <p>For the web worker, the privacy options allow varying levels of access to your group including keeping it entirely hidden and invite only. This could make it an option for small group project management or collaboration. For testing purposes, I mocked up a group for WWD authors to share links and story ideas and can see it being very effective for this purpose.</p> <p><a href="http://webworkerdaily.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/img-blastgroup-wwd.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://webworkerdaily.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/img-blastgroup-wwd-small.png?w=450&h=338" height="338" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="BlastGroups Interface" width="450" /></a></p> <p>The list of groups already available is understandably small, but as easy as it is to get something up and running I expect the catalog to expand quickly. If you don’t find what you are looking for, you can start your own group in just a matter of moments. A wizard like interface steps you through the process and you can be up and running quickly. Invite your friends and you are good to go. I can see BlastGroups being a great option for families, organizations, fan-club sites, and more. It’s dead simple to set up and use which should encourage those less technically able to jump right in.</p> <p>Customization options for your group are a bit limited, allowing only color changes and a logo upload. I also had occasional moments of not knowing if I was in my group or on my profile, or if I was even logged in at all, but familiarity soon overcame these initial obstacles.</p> <p>BlastGroups is free to use although there are occasional ads on the side of the page. They are relatively unobtrusive but I would appreciate the option to pay a monthly fee for ad-free usage. <a href="http://www.blastgroups.com/CreateProfile/details" title="BlastGroups - Sign Up" target="_blank">Registration</a> is required to join or create groups.</p> <p><em>What are you currently using to communicate with your groups? 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http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3411 BlastGroups Offers Simple Yet Poweful Group Sharing Platform 2008-08-19T18:01:11+00:00 TimeDriver Pares Down Enterprise Scheduling For You 2008-08-19T16:55:09+00:00 2008-08-19T16:00:14+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6310115

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwd/2767261272/" title="TimeDriver by Web Worker Daily, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/2767261272_9686b13202_m.jpg" vspace="5" height="131" hspace="5" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="TimeDriver" align="right" width="240" /></a>You need to schedule back-to-back demos with different tech companies. Or you want to hold “virtual office hours” for lead generation and effortlessly book them based on your actual availabilities each week. You don’t have a personal assistant. So what do you do?</p> <div class="snap_preview">Take <a href="http://www.timedriver.com/" target="_blank">TimeDriver</a> for a test run. Judi Sohn <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/28/demo-2008-timedriver-for-one-to-one-appointment-scheduling/" target="_blank">covered this app</a> after DEMO earlier this year. TimeDriver is a free, stripped-down version of TimeTrade System’s TimeTrade Enterprise Scheduling Application (TESA), the solution behind big companies like Blue Cross Blue Shield, QuestDiagnostics and Charles Schwab. Stripped down, however, doesn’t mean feature poor.Opening up for a public beta on August 25, TimeDriver takes the guesswork and busywork out of scheduling individual appointments with a number of different people.So how does it do what it does? <p>First, TimeDriver connects with either your Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar. For those of you using iCal (like me), you can sync your iCal with Google Calendar using <a href="http://www.spanningsync.com/" target="_blank">SpanningSync</a> to take advantage of this personal appointment scheduling system. The company says they still plan on supporting Salesforce and Lotus Notes in the near future but they are adding the most popular calendaring programs first.</p> <p>Next, you use TimeDriver’s calendaring page to indicate blocks of time when you’d like to schedule appointments by dragging from the start to the end time. The system syncs up with your overall calendar and immediately blacks out times where you already have something else scheduled and will continue to do so as you add any additional events or appointments to your personal calendar.</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwd/2766414641/" title="TimeDriver Scheduler by Web Worker Daily, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/2766414641_5837e0a28a_m.jpg" vspace="5" height="156" hspace="5" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="TimeDriver Scheduler" align="left" width="240" /></a>Then you can generate a link that you can share with others to schedule their appointments with you. So if you are working on scheduling back-to-back demos with tech companies, the system will email individual messages to each company rep with an embedded button that brings each person to their own private page with your invitation.</p> <p>From there, they can click over to view open dates and times for scheduling a demo with you, add any notes, and submit the information into the system. The date and time they choose is automatically removed from the availablitilites that others will see.</p> <p>If you are soliciting leads on your web site or even your LinkedIn page and are offering to speak with people for a free assessment of their needs with the hopes of landing some new clients, you can embed the scheduling link on your Web site. When people click on it, they are led to the TimeDriver system to schedule a phoner with you.</p> <p>In a nutshell, the process for setting up TimeDriver is:</p> <p>1. Name your event.</p> <p>2. Choose whether it will be by phone or a face-to-face meeting.</p> <p>3. Pick a duration for the event.</p> <p>4. Compose your invitation message (photo or logo optional). You can even add a qualifying question to get information in advance.</p> <p>5. Pick your windows of availability.</p> <p>6. Get scheduling link or send out emails for the activity you’ve set up.</p> <p>What TimeDriver does <em>not</em> do is coordinate scheduling for multiple people. The company feels there are enough players in that area.</p> <p>The TimeDriver system does track all recipients of the emails you send including who has responded, who has looked at your invitation but hasn’t responded and who hasn’t looked at all. You can trigger a followup message to those who haven’t yet confirmed a date and time. The system also accounts for each person’s time zone based on their machine settings.</p> <p>Currently in Alpha is an integrated Outlook add-on that inserts a scheduling link into emails composed through the program.</p> <p>Personally, I can see using TimeDriver for:</p> <p>1. Letting people schedule 1/2 hour free consultations with me via my LinkedIn page and web site to cultivate new clients.</p> <p>2. Scheduling check-in calls with clients in clusters so I can be more efficient about direct contact with them to supplement the more-typical daily emails.</p> <p>3. Booking more Web app demos with tech companies in neat blocks of time so I can be incredibly productive.</p> <p>You can pre-register for TimeDriver’s open beta <a href="http://www.timedriver.com/" target="_blank">at their site</a>. Doors open on August 25th. The basic TimeDriver service is free.</p></div> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3380&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3380" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3380/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3380&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3380 TimeDriver Pares Down Enterprise Scheduling For You 2008-08-19T16:55:09+00:00 Apple’s Image May Be Cracking 2008-08-19T15:48:59+00:00 2008-08-19T15:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6305769

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2778134268" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3227/2778134268_cb52511e4b_o.jpg" border="0" height="27" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="115" /></a>Between the iPhone and MobileMe, we’re starting to see some complaints about Apple quality and support - widely regarded as the cornerstones of the company’s reputation. Twitter is full of complaints about <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=mobileme" target="_blank">MobileMe</a>, and the company has gone so far as to add another <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2826" target="_blank">60 days of free service</a> for suffering subscribers. Some <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/08/01/apples-quality-dwindling-my-macbook-pro-sob-story/" target="_blank">prominent</a> <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/19/apple-is-flailing-badly-at-the-edges/" target="_blank">bloggers</a> have also weighed in on the issue of Apple quality recently, with negative views.</p> <p>And yet…despite some high-profile complaints, the bulk of Apple users still seem to be satisfied. A survey at our parent blog <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/08/18/open-thread-are-you-happy-with-apple-support/" target="_blank">GigaOM</a> is finding most respondents to be satisfied, and the just-released <a href="http://www.theacsi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=31" target="_blank">American Customer Satisfaction Index scores</a> put Apple ahead of all other computer manufacturers for Q2. So despite some stumbles, it looks like Apple hasn’t yet lost its shine.</p> <p><em>What’s your take on the state of Apple products?</em></p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3399&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3399" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><div class="poll" id="poll_5b160ac0e557c956cbc33ce513a90f75"> <div class="poll_head"> Are you happy with Apple support? </div> <form name="poll_5b160ac0e557c956cbc33ce513a90f75_form" action="" id="poll_5b160ac0e557c956cbc33ce513a90f75_form" method="post"> <div class="poll_body"> <ul> <li><input name="choice" type="radio" value="269" /> Absolutely!</li> <li><input name="choice" type="radio" value="274" /> It is allright, nothing to write home about.</li> <li><input name="choice" type="radio" value="273" /> It is quite terrible.</li> <li><input name="choice" type="radio" value="272" /> I don't have Apple Products</li> </ul> </div> <div class="poll_foot"> <span class="button_wrap vote"> <input name="vote" type="button" value="Vote" /> </span> <span class="button_wrap"> <input name="results" type="button" value="Results" /> </span> </div> </form> </div> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3399/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3399&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3399 Apple’s Image May Be Cracking 2008-08-19T15:48:59+00:00 Double Shot #272 2008-08-19T11:43:59+00:00 2008-08-19T03:01:07+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6292973

<p>Having a wonderful time metaprogramming. Wish you were here.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://ylastic.com/" target="_blank">Ylastic</a> - Web-based tools for managing Amazon Web Services. $50 per month.</li> <li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/browse_thread/thread/12bca71038803463/07a1c86601e100a2?show_docid=07a1c86601e100a2" target="_blank">BOSSman</a> - Gem for hooking up to Yahoo’s open search services.</li> </ul>

http://afreshcup.com/?p=924 Double Shot #272 2008-08-19T11:43:59+00:00 USB 3.0: Likely to Bring Many Conveniences 2008-08-18T23:44:19+00:00 2008-08-18T23:00:50+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6267734

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The next generation of Universal Serial Bus (USB) is upon us. The final specification for USB 3.0 is due in the fourth quarter of this year, and Intel <a href="http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=103052" target="_blank">has delivered</a> a key part of the draft spec. I’m betting that version 3.0 will make life easier for web workers in many ways. That’s largely true because of the many conveniences that I remember USB 2.0 introducing.</p> <p><img class="alignnone" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3072/2775331219_2cf3cc56c1_o.jpg" height="60" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" width="101" /></p> <p>USB 3.0 has been widely interpreted as a way to increase speeds for consumer-oriented tasks, such as downloading HD movies. Indeed, speed is the new version’s main selling point, but version 3.0 is also likely to make mobile and other tasks easier.</p> <p>USB 3.0 is expected to bring much greater download speeds than we’re used to seeing now (up to ten times greater), and is also bi-directional, meaning that it can send and recieve data at the same time. However, as Gizmodo points out in its <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5038523/a-first-look-at-usb-30" target="_blank">First Look</a> at USB 3.0, “the biggest benefit of USB 3.0, may be the new power management options.” The new version is targeted to allow peripheral devices plugged into, say, a laptop to suffer fewer charge drains. Devices being charged while plugged into a USB port will also charge faster.</p> <p>I’m betting that the way we’ll experience these improvements when working will be similar to what we saw when USB 2.0 first arrived. Audio and video streams delivered over USB were herky-jerky and undependable prior to USB 2.0, and that put limits on the types of devices that manufacturers delivered with USB connectivity.</p> <p>With USB 3.0, it’s almost a certainty that people will keep more USB devices connected to computers and laptops, and that’s likely to affect hardware designs. The speeds are also fast enough to allow for rich media applications based on audio and video to run more smoothly, and possibly in improved form factors.</p> <p>It will take a while before version 3.0 is finalized, but if this version works like previous ones, we’ll see many hardware devices come out before the spec is final. (The same phenomenon happens in the Wi-Fi arena, where, say, Apple’s AirPort routers come out well before the versions of Wi-Fi that they’re based on are finally ratified.) We can all look forward to connectivity boosts coming soon.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3394&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3394" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3394/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3394&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3394 USB 3.0: Likely to Bring Many Conveniences 2008-08-18T23:44:19+00:00 MeetingWave Might Be a Little Late to the Party 2008-08-18T20:47:08+00:00 2008-08-18T20:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6259665

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://meetingwave.com" title="MeetingWave - Home" target="_blank"><img src="http://webworkerdaily.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/mwave-logo.gif?w=225&h=50" height="50" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="mwave logo" align="right" width="225" /></a>If you’re looking to connect with folks in your area or while traveling, <a href="http://meetingwave.com" title="Meetingwave - Home" target="_blank">MeetingWave</a> wants to bring you together with the help of their online meeting planner. Post an invite to your meeting, either publicly or privately, and interested parties use the service to accept.</p> <p>You can search by zip code or general location to find something interesting and RSS feeds can be created to match your specific event criteria. It has the obligatory reminders, recurring event creation, and I really appreciate their efforts to help ensure the privacy of users and event locations.</p> <p>Formerly called Travelers Table, MeetingWave is re-branding to acknowledge that meetings occur everywhere and perhaps their old name was limiting interest in their service, but is it enough?</p> <p>It may not seem fair to judge a site like this based upon the limited content but no matter how good the platform may or may not be, success is entirely dependent on community involvement and with sites like <a href="http://meetup.com" title="Meetup - Home" target="_blank">Meetup</a> or even <a href="http://evite.com" title="Evite - Home" target="_blank">evite</a> already firmly entrenched here, it may be hard for MeetingWave to attract the folks it needs to be useful.</p> <p>I honestly didn’t find much of interest to me in the Chicago area, and absolutely nothing out in the suburbs where I spend the majority of my time. While there are a lot of “business opportunity” sort of events, I didn’t see much in the way of networking related to common interest. Also, the inclusion of “romance” meetings seems very out of place for what was pitched to me as a professional networking site.</p> <p>I also experienced a couple of troubling issues during my registration and testing. The first thing it did after registering me was to lead me to a screen where the only option available was to create my own invite. I really wasn’t ready to do that but there was no other navigation or option for me (like a cancel button.) I had to close the window, revisit the site and log in again. I did this for the purpose of review, otherwise I likely wouldn’t have bothered.</p> <p>I did have a couple of other navigation issues as well. Occasionally input screens were too long for my display and since things are set to auto-center on the page, I couldn’t get the submit button to stay visible long enough for me to press it. I had to go to full screen mode to increase my display area enough to proceed.</p> <p>Your mileage with MeetingWave might vary based upon your location and area of interest. I’m going to plan a local tech-worker coffee get together and see what happens. It’s free to use both as a planner or guest so it might be worth a shot to see if you find what you are looking for. Let us know how it works out.</p> <p><em>How do you connect with like minded folks where you live, work or travel? </em></p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3388&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3388" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3388/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3388&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3388 MeetingWave Might Be a Little Late to the Party 2008-08-18T20:47:08+00:00 A Second Look at Evernote, Joint Contact, Backboard, Retaggr and Zemanta 2008-08-18T19:44:00+00:00 2008-08-18T19:00:01+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6256797

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>I’ve been blogging here about Web apps and ideas for work for a while now so I thought I’d revisit some of the apps I’ve posted about in the past months. Where are they now? What are some of their latest developments?</p> <p><strong>Ever Improving </strong><strong>Evernote </strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwd/2764555500/" title="Evernote by Web Worker Daily, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2764555500_5393c09292_m.jpg" vspace="5" height="131" hspace="5" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Evernote" align="right" width="240" /></a>I <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/15/brain-tickler-tools-for-story-ideas-part-2/" target="_blank">blogged about Evernote</a> back in April while they were still in private beta. Mike Gunderloy has also <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/03/25/evernote-your-longterm-memory/" target="_blank">covered them</a> several times. Judi Sohn has also mentioned them a few times <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/08/12/iphone-one-month-later/" target="_blank">including recently</a>.</p> <p>The latest from <a href="http://www.evernote.com/" target="_blank">Evernote</a> seems to be some tweaking to add more finesse to the application’s versions on the Web, via Mobile Web and on the iPhone such as:</p> <ul> <li>Rich text editing including bullets, colors, and styles on their Web version.</li> <li>A new web clipper Firefox and Flock extension for Windows, Mac and Linux.</li> <li>The ability to change the title of a note during web clipping</li> <li>The ability to edit text notes on Evernote Mobile Web and soon on iPhone.</li> </ul> <p>I like the way Evernote uses social media communications to stay in touch with customers including <a href="http://www.friendfeed.com/evernote" target="_blank">FriendFeed</a> and via a Facebook fan page.</p> <p><strong>Joint Contact Gets Even More Twittery</strong></p> <p>In my constant quest for the ideal project management tool for Web work, I <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/03/joint-contact-inserts-social-media-into-web-based-project-management/" target="_blank">took a look at Joint Contact </a>last month, especially taken with their ideas around using Twitter as part of project management. The latest version of <a href="http://www.jointcontact.com/" target="_blank"><span class="nfakPe">Joint</span> <span class="nfakPe">Contact</span></a> includes the ability to send automated Tweets (through a Twitter account with protected updates) when users add documents, images or tasks. Team members who are comfortable with Twitter can be in the loop via their favorite Twitter tool or platform including desktop with Twitterific or Twhirl and via SMS.</p> <p>Again, to use Twitter as an integrated part of the Joint Contact project management process, the company is emphasizing that the Twitter profiles created must be protected to keep the project messages secure. Regardless of how it plays out, this is an interesting example of a business application for Twitter and for the use of SMS communications for project management. (<a href="http://twitter.com/jointcontact" target="_blank">Joint Contact on Twitter</a>)</p> <p><strong>Backboard Gets More Secure<br /> </strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwd/2764555558/" title="Welcome to Backboard by Web Worker Daily, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2764555558_8f28ef00ac_m.jpg" vspace="5" height="130" hspace="5" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Welcome to Backboard" align="left" width="240" /></a>Last month, I also <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/29/dont-underestimate-backboards-simplicity/" target="_blank">posted about Backboard</a>, the handy and elegant feedback application. Since then, the company has enhanced security, providing an access key for extra security when sharing your <a href="http://www.getbackboard.com/" target="_blank">Backboard</a> with a large group. You can also restrict access to your Backboard to a group confirmed with their own password-protected accounts.</p> <p>Backboard Groups let’s you share multiple Backboards with the same team and the Address Book Import let’s you easily add your contacts from your Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, LinkedIn and Outlook. Another helpful feature is supporting multiple versions of the same document so you can change your file and get feedback on the new version.</p> <p>Backboard is one of those Web apps that I really loved in demo but haven’t used it in my Web work to date, but I can definitely see using it in the near future.</p> <p><strong>Retaggr Enhances Profile Cards</strong></p> <p>I played around with the <a href="http://www.retaggr.com/" target="_blank">Retaggr</a> profile card <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/24/retaggr-is-your-online-business-card/" target="_blank">back in June</a> and thought it was a nice, compact way of displaying one’s credentials. The latest from Retaggr includes:</p> <ul> <li>The ability to add professional affiliations.</li> <li>The ability to include your card in your sig file.</li> <li>A feature where you can compare your card with others.</li> <li>Host custom widgets in your card.</li> <li>Add any profile link into your card even if not a Retaggr partner.</li> </ul> <p>I’m going to use Retaggr soon, really I am. I have an account but have yet to be able to embed it into my blog. So many apps and widgets, so little time. (<a href="http://twitter.com/retaggr" target="_blank">Retaggr on Twitter</a>)</p> <p><strong>Zemanta Odds and Ends</strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwd/2764555418/" title="Zemanta Ltd. by Web Worker Daily, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3055/2764555418_2eaeb26b10_m.jpg" vspace="5" height="131" hspace="5" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Zemanta Ltd." align="right" width="240" /></a>Just got an email from the folks at Zemanta. I blogged about them twice - <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/29/zemanta-adds-blog-ephemera/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/06/03/zemanta-adds-reblog-and-other-features/" target="_blank">here</a>. While I don’t usually find Zemanta helpful blogging at WWD, I am finding that I use it for other pro-blogging gigs and even more often for my personal blogs.</p> <p>Zemanta’s latest:</p> <ul> <li>They now support Windows LiveWriter.</li> <li>They are suggesting content from CrunchBase.</li> <li>They’ve expanded their Amazon books integration to include book covers.</li> </ul> <p>Zemanta does help me enhance blogs in a pinch so I’d put this under the “useful app, using it” category.</p> <p>You can also find <a href="http://www.twitter.com/zemanta" target="_blank">Zemanta on Twitter</a>.</p> <p>BTW, I really like being able to follow my favorite companies and apps on Twitter.</p> <p><em>Are you using any of the apps mentioned here? If so, how are you using them?</em></p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3358&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3358" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3358/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3358&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3358 A Second Look at Evernote, Joint Contact, Backboard, Retaggr and Zemanta 2008-08-18T19:44:00+00:00 Back to School for Web Workers 2008-08-18T18:40:34+00:00 2008-08-18T18:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6254013

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2775326138" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2775326138_fefa158e2b_m.jpg" border="0" height="159" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="240" /></a>Although most of us on the web working front have been out of school for at least a few years, this is the time of year that it can pay off to pay attention to the student world. That’s because all of the big retailers are desperately trying to jump-start their fourth quarter sales with back-to-school promotions. Most of these aren’t really for web workers - I don’t know about you, but dropping a pile of money on the latest “must-have” college clothing doesn’t appeal to me - but there are a few out there that it’s worth knowing about.</p> <p>When we’ve mentioned <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2006/09/29/how-do-you-bag-it/" target="_blank">laptop bags</a> in the past, <strong><a href="http://www.radtech.us/" target="_blank">RadTech</a></strong> has come up on our readers’ lists. <strong>Today only</strong> they’re having a 20% off sale on all laptop bags and sleeves, including ones with solar cells built in and the minimal NeoCase. They also sell the aluminum allow MacTruck heavy-duty case - worth a look if you’re hard on laptops.</p> <p>If you’re the sort of web worker who admits to an <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/02/21/do-you-have-an-office-supply-fetish/" target="_blank">office supply fetish</a>, now’s the time to hit up the big retailers. <strong><a href="http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/StaplesCategoryDisplay?storeId=10001&catalogIdentifier=2&identifier=SC84&cm_sp=marketing-_-Half%20Wow-_-Back%20to%20School%20largebmj&cm_mmc=online_yahoo-_-search-_-bts-_-back%20school" target="_blank">Staples</a></strong> has a variety of back to school sales running, as does <strong><a href="http://www.officemax.com/omax/home/custom.jsp?id=m2280025&cm_re=BTS08-_-TopHero-_-Wk33" target="_blank">OfficeMax</a></strong>. Better yet, if you use PayPal to pay, OfficeMax is offering 20$ cash back up to $25.</p> <p>Anyone who has shopped Dell knows that they always have some sort of special pricing going on - but for back-to-school, their <strong><a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/laptops_great_deals?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&dgc=CJ&cid=24471&lid=785396" target="_blank">laptop specials</a></strong> are pretty good. If you’ve been looking for a second machine, they have a low-end Inspiron for $499 at the moment.</p> <p><em>Do you know about any other sales worth passing along?</em></p> <p>photo credit: stock.xchng user <a href="http://www.sxc.hu/profile/woodsy" target="_blank">woodsy</a></p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3384&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3384" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3384/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3384&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3384 Back to School for Web Workers 2008-08-18T18:40:34+00:00 Another Option for Laptop Security 2008-08-18T15:33:23+00:00 2008-08-18T15:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6244084

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2765597414" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3147/2765597414_166911193b_m.jpg" border="0" height="77" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="173" /></a>We’ve looked at laptop security several times - it’s a critical issue of those who are mobile with our (or our clients’) critical data. CMS Products is out with another solution in this area: the <strong><a href="http://www.cmsproducts.com/detail.aspx?ID=1264" target="_blank">EasyEncrypt Upgrade Kit</a></strong>. CMS has been making drives with hardware-based AES encryption for a while now; this kit makes it possible to get one of their drives into your laptop without losing data.</p> <p>The basic idea is simple: they send you a drive, enclosure, and software. You use the software to clone your old drive on to the new one, encrypting it in the process. Then you put the new one in your computer, and mount the old one in the enclosure, giving you extra storage for low-risk files. The whole kit costs $299 with a 160GB 2.5″ drive, and is available for Windows only.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3361&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3361" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3361/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3361&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3361 Another Option for Laptop Security 2008-08-18T15:33:23+00:00 Double Shot #271 2008-08-18T10:44:15+00:00 2008-08-18T02:52:05+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6229131

<p>Shaping up to be another busy week; fortunately the weekend was good for catching up this time.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.robinlu.com/blog/ichm" target="_blank">iCHM</a> - Nice-looking CHM reader for OS X. Unfortunately I’m not finding that its search works as well as that in Chamonix.</li> <li><a href="http://damienkatz.net/2008/08/rest-i-just-dont-get-it.html" target="_blank">REST, I Just Don’t Get It</a> - Heretical musings from Damien Katz. The comments are well worth reading. Also worth reading is Dare Obasanjo’s <a href="http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/2008/08/17/ExplainingRESTToDamienKatz.aspx" target="_blank">Explaining REST to Damien Katz</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://www.railsonwave.com/railsonwave/2008/8/15/use-macvim-and-rails-vim-plugin-to-edit-your-rails-work" target="_blank">Use MacVim and rails.vim plugin to edit your Rails work</a> - An alternative if you don’t want to drink the TextMate koolaid.</li> <li><a href="http://gems.github.com/" target="_blank">GitHub RubyGems</a> - It really is dead simple to publish a gem via github.</li> <li><a href="http://www.mbleigh.com/2008/6/11/gemplugins-a-brief-introduction-to-the-future-of-rails-plugins" target="_blank">GemPlugins: A Brief Introduction to the Future of Rails Plugins</a> - And it’s easy to convert an existing plugin to a gem, too.</li> <li><a href="http://gkaindl.com/software/app-update" target="_blank">App Update</a> - Dashboard widget to track software freshness on your Mac.</li> </ul>

http://afreshcup.com/?p=923 Double Shot #271 2008-08-18T10:44:15+00:00 Dell Gets Closer to my Dream Machine 2008-08-17T18:45:54+00:00 2008-08-17T18:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6199150

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2771745218" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/2771745218_bbb3022258_m.jpg" border="0" height="240" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="201" /></a>In addition to launching the <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/08/13/congratulations-youre-a-market/" target="_blank">Digital Nomads</a> site last week, Dell also announced a whole lineup of coming laptop models. Some of these, like the road warrior-aimed <strong><a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop_latitude_e4300?c=us&l=en&s=biz" target="_blank">E4300</a></strong>, boast a new feature that hasn’t gotten a lot of notice in the press yet: Latitude ON. Latitude ON gives your laptop a split personality - with a reason.</p> <p>Here’s how it works: the laptops that incorporate this new feature are actually two laptops in one, sharing the same screen, keyboard, and hard drive. When you run the laptop in Windows, you’re using an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, running along at the usual powerful clip. But when you just need e-mail, attachment viewing, your Exchange calendar and contacts, or a web browser session, you can switch on the Latitude ON system - a separate low-power CPU in the same box, with a dedicated Linux operating system running from flash memory to drive it.</p> <p>The net result is as if a high-end road warrior laptop were mated with something like an <a href="http://eeepc.asus.com/global/" target="_blank">ASUS Eee</a> in the same case - without the Eee’s compromises on screen resolution and keyboard size. This reminds me of the plea for a <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/04/13/time-for-a-portable-dumb-terminal/" target="_blank">portable dumb terminal</a> I made a few months ago - a great screen and keyboard with a stripped down everything else and fabulous battery life (Dell claims up to 19 hours for Latitude ON, though they haven’t yet shipped for anyone else to check this figure).</p> <p>Ultimately, though, I wonder whether the Latitude ON system will really be that much of a selling point for Dell. In my notion of a portable dumb terminal, throwing all the extras overboard resulted in an inexpensive machine. Dell hasn’t announced pricing for the E4200 and E4300, but you can bet they won’t be cheap. The target market for such machines has generally been power users - people who actually need a good deal of performance. Will those users really want to keep their laptops shut out of Windows to make use of the Linux subsystem? Perhaps that makes sense, on days when an executive is hopping through a series of airports and wants to stay connected with more style than a Blackberry provides. But those of us waiting for a dedicated internet surfing box will have to wait a bit longer.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3377&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3377" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3377/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3377&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3377 Dell Gets Closer to my Dream Machine 2008-08-17T18:45:54+00:00 Quick Site Pulse Taking with URL-info 2008-08-16T21:31:07+00:00 2008-08-16T21:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6167316

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2768245705" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/2768245705_74407181d5_m.jpg" border="0" height="171" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="240" /></a>As a web designer and developer, I find myself needing to analyze HTML pages quite often. I have my own stable of client-side tools to do this, but what if you’re not at your own computer? One way to peer into pages is with <strong><a href="http://url-info.appspot.com/" target="_blank">URL-info</a></strong>, a new site running on Google App Engine. It’s simple to use: just enter a url and click Go, or set the bookmarklet up for your browser.</p> <p>URL-info returns a variety of information about the target web page, including the time it took to download and the size, the HTTP headers, and lists of all of the images and links on the page. It would be nice if you could also follow links directly from the tool, or download images. Perhaps we’ll get that in the next revision.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3375&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3375" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3375/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3375&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3375 Quick Site Pulse Taking with URL-info 2008-08-16T21:31:07+00:00 Tweetake: Backup for Twitter 2008-08-16T16:18:43+00:00 2008-08-16T16:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6157723

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2768331694" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2768331694_82cc9000f8_m.jpg" border="0" height="31" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="240" /></a>The notion of making a backup copy of the ephemera that is Twitter may strike you as odd - until you realize that your lists of friends and followers are actually valuable contacts. Fortunately, <strong><a href="http://tweetake.com/" target="_blank">Tweetake</a></strong> makes it possible to save everything about your Twitter account - followers, friends, favorites, and your own tweets - to a local CSV file. Just put in your authentication, press the button, and wait for the file to download. If you have a ton of friends and followers, you may not get them all back, but I suspect that is simply a limit of the Twitter API.</p> <p>Even though this service isn’t earthshattering, it’s certainly nice to have if you’re invested in your Twitter account. And it’s an example of the sort of local backup of cloud-based services that we’ve been talking about - even if it doesn’t come from Twitter themselves. Let’s hope we see more of these in the future.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3373&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3373" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3373/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3373&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3373 Tweetake: Backup for Twitter 2008-08-16T16:18:43+00:00 Bits and Pieces 2008-08-16T00:18:47+00:00 2008-08-15T23:35:16+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6132313

<p><a href="http://www.47hats.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/seriesaa.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-661" title="seriesaa" src="http://www.47hats.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/seriesaa.jpg" height="310" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" width="500" /></a>Busy week, but here’s a few things that I squirreled away you might like to finish your Friday with:</p> <p>Tim Haughton is having entirely too much fun with SSH, posting <a href="http://www.agilemicroisv.com/2008/08/3-things-you-di.html" target="_blank">3 Things You Didn’t Know About SSH - Part 1</a>. This post is how you can use SSH to tunnel your web traffic to your server; just the thing to get past your boss’s “no facebook here” policy.</p> <p>Let’s talk about money - other people’s money. If you’re contemplating seeking VC money, you need to get familiar with how much blood equity you are going to have to fork over. One good place for this is <a href="http://www.thefunded.com" target="_blank">The Funded</a>, which back in January started posting the term sheets of VCs. Interesting reading.</p> <p>Of related interest, <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/13/y-combinator-to-offer-standardized-angel-funding-legal-docs/" target="_blank">Y Combinator</a> did the startup community a huge favor by having its lawyers <a href="http://www.ycombinator.com/seriesaa.html" target="_blank">draft all the documents a startup needs</a> for initial round of financing. Unfortunately, seems there’s a problem with those docs and Y Combinator took them down again. Let’s hope for the early return.</p> <p>Speaking of Y Combinator, Kevin Leneway is up to <a href="http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/y-combinator-challenge-9-photovideo-sharing-services/" target="_blank">#19 in his Y Combinator Challenge</a> - post an idea for a startup or microISV a day. Kevin - Who creates tols for Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism group - has some interesting ideas. Good reading if you’ve not decided what app you want to create.</p>

http://www.47hats.com/?p=660 Bits and Pieces 2008-08-16T00:18:47+00:00 LeadVine: Targeted Business Networking 2008-08-15T18:06:40+00:00 2008-08-15T18:00:33+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6118406

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2765890118" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/2765890118_d9f726ab07_m.jpg" border="0" height="66" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="240" /></a>There’s a new fledgling business network in town: <strong><a href="http://www.leadvine.com/" target="_blank">LeadVine</a></strong>, whose slogan is “the community is your sales force.” Currrently in public beta, it’s not trying to take on LinkedIn directly. Rather than try to build general-purpose business connections with no fixed purpose, LeadVine is directed specifically at hooking up businesses with sales leads.</p> <p>The site is basically driven by supply, rather than demand. If you’re a business or consultant with services to sell, you can post your listing: this will say what you’re looking for (”Businesses needing help keeping their computer network safe and secure”), when someone should refer you, and how much you’re willing to pay as a referral fee. Then visitors to LeadVine can scan through these requests for leads, and if they have something that fits, make the referral.</p> <p>Currently-posted fees range from $50 to $20,000. LeadVine does not get involved in the user-to-user transaction: they don’t take a fee, nor do they offer any sort of guarantee of good business dealings. If you have a referral to make, you’d be wise to get a contract in place to protect your rights.</p> <p>LeadVine takes good advantage of Web 2.0: you can sign up to receive new listings as they come in, via either RSS or Twitter. You can also use your OpenID to sign in to create your own listings (or you can build a dedicated LeadVine account if you’d rather).</p> <p>Will it work? That depends on how well the site manages to get attention, and on the ratio of serious vs. spammy businesses that go fishing here. Certainly for web workers there’s a fair amount of potential; not being limited to any particular geographic area, we can cast a wide net in our listings. And since LeadVine doesn’t charge any fee for a listing, the risk of trying it out is low.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3368&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3368" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3368/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3368&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3368 LeadVine: Targeted Business Networking 2008-08-15T18:06:40+00:00 Use iPhone Optimized Web Sites On Your Desktop For Greater Productivity 2008-08-15T17:12:06+00:00 2008-08-15T17:00:56+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6115777

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>We’ve <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/13/do-you-need-a-site-specific-browser/" title="WWD - Do you need a site specific browser?" target="_blank">talked about Site Specific Browsers</a> like <a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/05/30/bubbles-new-site-specific-browser/" title="WWD - Bubbles" target="_blank">Bubbles</a> in the past and while I have found them to be useful in some instances, it’s only with the proliferation of web applications with iPhone optimized interfaces that I have really started using them.</p> <p>I have found that setting up multiple SSB windows ,each containing the iPhone view of a web application, allows me to create a dashboard of sorts on my spare monitor. At a glance, I can view my stable of important apps in nice compact, consistent windows.</p> <p><img src="http://webworkerdaily.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/iphone-toodle.jpg?w=132&h=200" height="200" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Toodledo on iPhone" align="right" width="132" /></p> <p>For example, I am a big fan of the <a href="http://toodledo.com" title="Toodledo - Home" target="_blank">Toodledo</a> task list application. For heavy duty task management or review, the full app view is better but the iPhone optimized interface is great for quick viewing and modifications. So while I do keep the full application open in a Firefox tab, I also keep the iPhone interface open in a Bubbles window on that secondary display. This allows me to view, add or complete tasks very quickly.</p> <p>The iPhone interfaces are typically very well done and these SSB windows work very much like desktop widgets, providing an excellent view of my data.</p> <p><a href="http://batchblue.com" title="BatchBook - Home" target="_blank">BatchBook</a> designer Adam Darowski just published a great instructional post on how to <a href="http://www.darowski.com/tracesofinspiration/2008/08/14/using-fluidapp-to-bring-google-reader-for-iphone-to-your-desktop/" title="Traces of Inspiration - Using fluidapp to bring google reader for iPhone to your desktop" target="_blank">use Fluid.app to bring Google Reader for iPhone to your desktop</a>, but these steps can be used for just about any application that has an iPhone optimized interface. The process for using <a href="http://bubbleshq.com" title="Bubbles - Home" target="_blank">Bubbles</a> on Windows or the multi-platform <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/prism/" title="Mozilla Prism" target="_blank">Prism</a> is comparable.</p> <p><em>Do you use Site Specific Browsers? Which iPhone interface would you find most useful?</em></p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3364&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3364" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3364/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3364&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3364 Use iPhone Optimized Web Sites On Your Desktop For Greater Productivity 2008-08-15T17:12:06+00:00 Clearing the Cache - The How & Where Edition 2008-08-15T16:18:47+00:00 2008-08-15T16:00:50+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6113248

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>The Execupundit explores <a href="http://www.execupundit.com/2008/08/work-patterns-bursts-versus-flow.html" title="Execupundit - Bursts versus Flow" target="_blank">Work Patterns: Bursts versus Flow</a></p> <p>Om on <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/08/13/different-ims-for-different-folks/" title="GigaOM - Different IMs for different folks" target="_blank">Different IMs for Different Folks</a><a href="http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/08/build-a-virtual.html" title="jkOnTheRun - Build a virtual cubicle" target="_blank"></a></p> <p>43 Folders describes success with <a href="http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/08/outcome-based" title="43 Folders - Outcome-Based Thinking" target="_blank">Outcome-Based Thinking</a></p> <p>Tony Wright crunches the numbers on <a href="http://blog.rescuetime.com/2008/06/14/information-overload-show-me-the-data/" title="Rescue Time - Information Overlaod - Show me the data" target="_blank">Information Overload</a></p> <p>Freelance Switch tells us how to <a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/productivity/killer-tools-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-usb-thumb-drive/" title="Freelance Switch - Get the most out of your USB Thumb Drive" target="_blank">Get the Most</a> out of our ubiquitous thumb drive</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3346&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3346" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3346/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3346&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3346 Clearing the Cache - The How & Where Edition 2008-08-15T16:18:47+00:00 Wisdomap: Simple Mind Maps 2008-08-15T15:25:34+00:00 2008-08-15T15:00:00+00:00 planetaki.com:309:post:6110255

<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8304862@N03/2762437547" title="View 'Screenshot' on Flickr.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3251/2762437547_e8cedbd873_m.jpg" border="0" height="169" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="Screenshot" align="right" width="240" /></a>We’re fans of mind-mapping around WWD: simple diagrams that help your brainstorm or organize by taking advantage of visual and spatial memory. The latest Flash-based online mind-mapping tool to cross our paths is <strong><a href="http://www.wisdomap.com/" target="_blank">Wisdomap</a></strong>. They emphasize simplicity: you get nodes and links, without a lot of finicky controls for their appearance or even placement. Any node on your map can also have explanatory text associated with it, as well as videos, images, files, and sites - but those bits of extra information are clustered on the sides of the map, instead of being crammed into nodes.</p> <p>A free Wisdomap account lets you create and share up to three mind maps. The £10 Premium account holds unlimited maps, and adds download to PNG or PDF format as well as printing to the mix.</p> <p class="akst_link"><a href="http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=3344&akst_action=share-this" class="akst_share_link" title="E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc." rel="nofollow" id="akst_link_3344" target="_blank">Share/Send</a> </p><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/categories/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/tags/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/3344/" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></a> <img src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=webworkerdaily.com&blog=387619&post=3344&subd=webworkerdaily&ref=&feed=1" border="0" onload="resizeImage( this )" alt="" /></div>

http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=3344 Wisdomap: Simple Mind Maps 2008-08-15T15:25:34+00:00