Web Worker Daily

37signals’ Haystack promises to make finding a web designer easy, offering a simplified way to search for clients looking to hire a professional. While it’s a useful tool for someone with a web design project, it can also prove useful for web designers. Read the rest of this entry »

Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache I choose a theme, pull out some of my favorites and share them with you here.

Our friends over at BatchBlue give a shiny new look to their their BatchBook CRM.

Clustering is key to the new Google Blog Search homepage.

If impersonation is the sincerest form of flattery, 37signals should be honored by this extremely faithful reproduction. Or more likely outraged.

Yahoo announces version 2.6 of the Yahoo Interface Library (YUI) – OStatic gives us the rundown.

The Windows 7 team on how they are Managing Windows windows

GIMP 2.6 offers a spiffy new User Interface

Backpack, 37signals lightweight online information organizer has just morphed into a very handy intranet for web worker online businesses with the addition of multiuser page, calendar, messaging and reminder functions.

“The concept of an intranet has been perverted over the years to be a bunch of different things,” said Jason Fried, CEO of Chicago-based 37signals.” Our idea of what an intranet needs is what we have encountered over and over and over when we used to do client work. People just need a place to share common information. They need a place to keep track of very simple calendar items – when a meeting is, when something is going on. And they need a way to share documents. So we see Backpack as a new breed of intranet – returning to the original promise of the intranet: a closed system for people within an company to share information.”
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