Weekend Reader
July 28th, 2007 (7:59am) Anne Zelenka 6 Comments
ThinkFree invitations — Want to try ThinkFree, an online document editor? It’s in closed beta, but if you want a free premium account good through sometime late next year, send an email to gigaom@thinkfree.com. The first 50 people to send an email will get instructions on how to get an account. [ThinkFree Online Beta]
The gap between smartphone and laptop — Wall Street Journal columnist Jeremy Wagstaff identifies a hole in our lives: gadgets bigger and better for browsing than smartphones but much more portable than a laptop, allowing “digital grazing” on social networks, blogs, podcasts, and so forth. He points to the Nokia N800 Internet tablet as an example of a device aiming at this gap. If you’re a Wall Street Journal subscriber, see his column about the hole here, otherwise you’ll have to make do with his blog post description. [loose wire blog]
Work from home and make money online — Alfa Mercado has put together a list of ten blogs that will help you do just that. And she mentions Web Worker Daily on her list. Thanks, Alfa! [Apple Door Says NO to Bunch Clocks via Work From Home Momma]
Add events to GCal from Twitter — Add gcal as your friend, authorize access to your Google Calendar Account, then add events by sending a direct message to gcal. [Twittercal]
Get your RSS by email — MailBucket offers a public email-to-RSS gateway. Just forward your email to <your-choice>@mailbucket.org, then grab the RSS at mailbucket.org/<your-choice>.xml. Great for high traffic mailing lists that you’d rather read as news than email. [MailBucket]
Do yoga at your desk — Four online videos to help counter the effects of sitting at your desk for long hours. Each video about the length of a coffee break. [Alberta Centre for Active Living via LiveDev]
Time to cut back on caffeine? — Starbucks U.S. prices on coffee, lattes, and other drinks will go up on average 9 cents each due to higher dairy and production costs. [FOXNews.com]
Find wifi hotspots with your iPod — No, the iPod isn’t yet wifi-enabled but that doesn’t mean you can’t store a database of U.S. wifi hotspots on it using its Notes capability. [Forbes.com]
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Kristof says: July 28th, 2007 10:33am
Curious if there is room for yet another online document editor.
Of course Google Docs can still greatly be improved, but the SSO is priceless.
Maybe ThinkFree has some other advantages that i am missing. So going for that beta ;)
Zia says: July 28th, 2007 11:05am
Thanks for these!
Judi Sohn says: July 28th, 2007 11:58am
From what I read of the description, ThinkFree’s main advantages are that 1. It looks more like Office 2003 (which is a good thing when you’re trying to convince your teams to break from the tried and true) and 2. You can download an application, work offline and then sync back with the online documents.
Alfa says: July 29th, 2007 1:31am
I enjoy the geeky-but-not-so-annoyingly-geeky effect of reading Web Worker Daily. Thank you for linking Anne!
Laura says: July 30th, 2007 6:05am
Hi!
Thanks for linking to my blog!
Alfa has put together a great list. I especially like that it reminded me of Web Worker Daily, which definitely belongs on the list. I’ll be stopping by here again.
ThinkFree Blog » Closed Beta for ThinkFree Premium says: July 31st, 2007 5:31pm
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