Web Worker Daily

If you don’t work like a deskbound “knowledge worker,” why would you look for next big thing at at a traditional job board?

That’s the question StartupAgents is those who are ready to jump into the world of startup software companies will be asking.

StartupAgents is a new job board catering especially to startup companies in the areas of:

• Software (Consumer, Enterprise, Mobile)
• Hardware (Communications, Networking, Semiconductors)
• Life Sciences (Medical Devices, Biotechnology)
• Nanotechnology
• Greentechnology / Cleantechnology

And to the people who want to work on the bleeding edge and are open – eager even – to get equity, not just a paycheck.
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The more velocity there is in your working life, the more meetings you attend, or rather suffer through.

MyCommittee can’t promise to turn off the spigot on your whinging co board members, but it does hold out the promise that you can plan, structure and organize face-to-face meetings that actually produce results.

MyCommittee lets you, as the organizer, start an agenda that will be distributed to attendees as a .pdf, but that’s only the start. With this online app (pricing for the advertising-free plans start at $19/month for one committee) you centralize scheduling the meeting, developing and collaborating on the agenda, coordination of member discussion of agenda items, creating searchable meeting minutes and tracking action items.
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Online calendaring is one of those “it’s so simple, why can’t developers get it right?” problems – no one solution ever seems to get at the problem without adding complexity to your life.

So you pile onto Outlook, iCal, Google Calendar, your Evite or similar service, your social networking apps; hoping that the end result will somehow deliver on the promise of easy human synchronization via the net.

Presdo delivers just that, without unnecessary effort on your part.
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If you’d like to see a bit of your future as a mobile worker, you could do much worse than a quick read of a new report just out with a title that doesn’t do it justice: Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use (PDF).

The report, a joint effort by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation, cites example after example of how the most ubiquitous electronic device on the planet – the mobile phone – is changing your future.

Non governmental organizations across the planet are tapping mobile technology to do things that may come as a surprise to you or your company, and they are doing it for pennies on the dollar compared to past efforts. Whether it’s monitoring elections in Kenya, or air pollution in Ghana, mobile phones are reshaping what non-profit organizations can and will do.

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If you thought Amazon was the lone vendor out there selling virtual application server services, look again: two more companies are battling for the hearts, minds and server infrastructure of the people writing all those web based services web workers use.

Nirvanix – who woke up the jaded VCs at DEMO08 by taking a sledgehammer to a server – has announced a 30 day “fee holiday” for customers who want to upload their virtualized servers to Nirvanix’s network, especially if they’ve been running that server on Amazon S3. Just to hammer in the point, Nirvanix has also released a “Amazon S3 Migration Tool” that will let you move your server image while maintaining your folder structure.
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Google and its ecosystem of small Mac and Windows developers continue to eat away at the justifications for Microsoft line of products; this week it’s calendar synchronization.

Microsoft used to own this game: if you wanted to to be able to share calendars then your organization needed Microsoft Exchange Server and a few IT people chained to their desks to support it. No more.

First Google came out with Google Calendars a few years back; then Google added Google Calendar Sync for Microsoft Outlook in March. Now, two Mac microISVs have released products that let Mac users sync up iCal with Google Calendar.

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Wouldn’t it be great if you you could keep all of your social networks up to date with whatever you’re blogging, and what’s more, cross post between blogs?

At least, that’s the theory behind Six Apart’s new Facebook application, Blog It.

Great in theory – but light years to go in practice.
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I don’t know about you, but I’ve completely lost count of how many passwords I have online. 100? 200? I have no idea. And yes, I know, each of them should be unique as more and more of who I am and what I do ends up on the web. But I’ve run out of my cat’s names, old teachers, places I like and even places I hate.

Enter a little bird to whisper a secure, but memorable password in my ear: PasswordBird.

PasswordBird is not going to set the web on fire, but if you’re at a loss for a reasonably strong password you just might remember, it’s perfect. Enter a name, a word and a date that’s special to you, and it will crank out a password that’s easy on your brain cells.
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