WWD Coffee Break

Huddle ups the Free Ante – We’ve looked at Huddle, an online team-management tool in the same general arena as SharePoint or Basecamp, before. But in connection with this week’s DEMO conference, they made a couple of announcements that make them worth a second look. First,… 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 »

 
 

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 »

Travel with a Buddy – Personal travel assistant site Tripit (which we’ve written about before) is taking a step beyond just helping you organize all the emails that make up a travel itinerary. Now they want to help you share your trips with friends and colleagues,… Read More »

A New View of Twitter – Gridjit is a data visualization tool for Twitter. Unlike most of the Twitter clients out there, which focus on presenting the same chronological stream of tweets as the web site and letting you post your own, Gridjit only displays data.… Read More »

Another Online Popularity Contest – QDOS (A name, they say, derived from “kudos”) is the latest online service to try to show you how you compare to other people. Put in your identity and tell them where to find you online (on sites like Facebook, Twitter,… Read More »

Skitch Goes Open – Skitch is a screen capture and sketching application for OS X, and Skitch.com is their associated image sharing web site. They’ve been in private beta for a while and garnering good notices. Now they’ve gone to an open beta, which means that… Read More »

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WWD Coffee Break – Cloud RAID, Remote Control & Being Your Own Boss

Cloud Storage Evolves – The other day I wrote a piece about some of the pitfalls of storing your data in the cloud. The comments tipped me off to a vendor who’s trying to do something about that: ElasticDrive. They offer a virtual block decvice that… Read More »

WWD Coffee Break – DWT, Twitter via IM, and Scrabulous

DWT Considered Harmful – According to the Washington Post, Virginia and Maryland are among the most recent states to be considering legislation banning DWT – that’s Driving While Texting for those of you who haven’t been following along at home. With 20 percent of all drivers… Read More »

WWD Coffee Break: Remote Control, PingMe & Feed-Tracking

Cross-platform Remote Control – WebEx PcNow has quietly released version 4.0 of their remote-control application, with a significant new feature for many web workers: it now works on both PCs and Macs (as well as mobile devices). This means that you can use a single service… Read More »

WWD Coffee Break – Team Management, Web Highlighting & Video

Online Project Management with Antz – Antz@work is a new online team management tool, somewhat similar to Basecamp (though they say they came up with the concepts independently). It manages tasks, shared files, discussions, polls, and shared text documents (with very lightweight formatting) as well as… Read More »

WWD Coffee Break – Search, Disposable Email & A Bad Day

Open Source Search – Wikia Search, the search project from the same folks who brought you Wikipedia, has launched in alpha form. They say right up front that the current results are pretty bad, but their plan is to refine them based on user feedback. For… Read More »

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