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Simon Mackie

Bio:Simon has been working in technical publishing for nearly 10 years, starting out his career at Wrox Press before moving on to SitePoint, Vitamin, and, now, WebWorkerDaily. He lives in buzzing Bristol in the South West of England and has a passion for the web “done right”. Follow Simon on Twitter at @spiky_simon.

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  • @lizgannes "we try to listen to our competitors' users", perhaps?
  • @sallyhems there's an ignite happening in Bristol? Why was I not told?
  • today has gone very quickly and not very productively. Jetlag is obviously hitting hard.

My Focus

Web apps
Productivity
Screencasts

Recent Posts

Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Mashable: “How Social Media Helps One Small Business Connect with Fans” ReadWriteWeb: “5 Simple Twitter Listening Tips Every Marketer Should Know” Marketing Shindig: “How to Respond to the Most Overused Objections in Using… Read More »

bzhive, a new coworking space in San Rafael, Ca. that I mentioned back in December, is to hold its opening party this Monday, February 8th at 6PM. bzhive will serve Marin County and its neighbors, and has a conference room and parking available. Read More »

Sendible, a service for scheduling and posting messages to social networks like Twitter and Facebook, has recently relaunched with some great new features that should prove very useful for social media marketers. Read More »

Augmented reality apps (like WorkSnug, a neat app that helps you to find good places to work nearby that I wrote about last year) are becoming more commonplace. GigaOM has published a great set of infographics summarizing the main AR apps and how they work. Read More »

Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Mashable: “Upload Your Old E-mails to Google Apps” Mashable: “What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch” jkOnTheRun: “The Apple iPad — What You Need to Know” ReadWriteWeb: “From… Read More »

My name’s Priyanka Dalal, and I’ve been working in Mumbai, India as a social media professional for the last year and a half. I’m currently working for DeskAway; I’ve also worked with a couple of web startups (Inkfruit, WatBlog) and on some freelance assignments. Read More »

Out-of-date, unpatched software can leave a computer open to attack from malware and hackers. Secunia, a leading provider of software vulnerability intelligence, provides a few free tools that you can use to scan Windows machines, such as the Online Software Inspector Read More »

More Must Reads

Find Somewhere to Work With Laptopfriendlycafes

Laptopfriendlycafes.com is an easy-to-use web site that also has a database of cafes; you can search on a location name, zip or postal code to get a listing of places nearby that might make good locations from which to work. Read More »

Apple iPad: Good for Web Working?

So the much-discussed Apple iPad has finally arrived. But how does it stack up for web working? Last week, Darrell compiled a wish list of features that he thought were necessary for Apple’s tablet to be a useful web working device — let’s take a look… Read More »

Welcome to the New WebWorkerDaily

If you’re reading this post in your newsreader, I strongly advise you to head over to the site and read it there instead, because I’m very pleased to use this post to introduce WebWorkerDaily’s redesign. Read More »

WWD Weekend Reading List

Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Read More »

Twitt Updated, Now Supports Multiple Accounts

Dan Deming-Henes has released version 1.1 of Twitt, adding a host of useful features to his his lightweight Mac Twitter client, which Darrell reviewed back in November. Perhaps most importantly, and addressing one of Darrell’s complaints about version 1.0, is that it now supports multiple Twitter accounts. This new version also supports Twitter’s… Read More »

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