Online collaboration makes the Web Worker world go around, but for most web workers, that means patching together a spiderweb of emailed Microsoft documents, IM mentions of web sites to see and even vague pointers to where to look in that YouTube video for the moment… Read More »
Archive for January, 2008
Small is increasingly “in” when it comes to hardware. The recent launch of the MacBook Air is just one example of shrinking computers to cross our radar recently. There’s also the Asus Eee PC, the $180 chumby internet device, and even the Pulse “smartpen” from Livescribe.… Read More »
The Limits of Privacy – Photo-sharing site SmugMug has a problem. Whether it’s a PR problem or a privacy problem, I’ll leave you to decide. The basic facts, as brought out by Philipp Lenssen over at Google Blogoscoped, are pretty straightforward: SmugMug uses an easily-guessed scheme… Read More »
There are already web applications focused on scheduling meetings between a bunch of participants including ScheduleOnce, Tungle, iKordo, Jiffle (formerly iPolipo), and others. Helpful if you have 4 or 5 people who need to meet at the same time and you want to narrow in on… Read More »
Iterasi (Portugese for “iteration” if you’re curious) is an interesting new web-based utility making its debut at the DEMO conference this morning. Simply put, Iterasi is a utility for capturing, organizing and sharing the preserved state of complex websites. I enjoyed a sneak peek at the tool… Read More »
Quick Web Sites – There are lots of online tools to help you put together a web site quickly. The latest I’ve run across is Tank, which does indeed seem to streamline the process nicely. After an instant signup process you can create a new site,… Read More »
Most of us web workers spend a good deal of time each day searching the web, and it’s no secret that Google tends to be the tool of choice. Still, alternative search engines are often good for targeted kinds of search tasks, and it’s even true… Read More »
