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Cool user experience

I use remember the milk for managing my day to day tasks, it’s a great service and I’ve gone through just about every to-do list app on the web. One of the really cool things about the service is that you can sign up to test features before they are released to the entire user base. [...]
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Twitter in plain english

Found this while reading Rick Strahl’s blog today, I’ve tried to explain twitter to a lot of people but this pretty much sums it up in about 2 minutes, what more could you ask for? (video source: http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter)
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This guy takes great notes

I’ve recently become pretty obsessed with taking notes at work, I find it really helps me focus in meetings and keeps me interested and involved, mine are all text and pretty boring but check these babies out, I wish I could make note taking this much fun! (from Jeff Lins blog) Seems like he was inspired by [...]
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It’s not rocket surgery!

I found this gem over at the 37 signals corporate blog, its a presentation David Heinemeier Hansson did at the Startup School conference called The Secret to making money online. Its a great video about how 37 signals has become a profitable business over the last 4-5 years without taking any venture capital funding or outside [...]
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ASP.NET Mvc Source Available

Just posted on Scott Guthries blog this morning, you can now download the source code for Microsoft’s ASP.NET Mvc extensions. Grab it at Codeplex
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so easy a caveman could do it?

I love simple things, easy to use, easy to understand. File Dropper is simplicity at it’s best, no sign-up, no complicated forms.  Just plain simple and obvious choices. +1 File Dropper
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week #2 of waiting for a new phone

As a part of work it started to make real sense for me to get a blackberry. We offer 24/7 support but we don’t all want to be chained to our desks makes sense, right? I just switched to rogers about 8 months ago, because it hasn’t been a full year I am not technically [...]
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screw you apple

i’m getting a Zune!
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2006 Young Innovators Under 35

Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research we find most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. read more | digg story
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what do you do when you don’t want any vc funding?

you get vc funding anyways? 37signals have long touted there ability to keep it real with out the overbearing weight of venture capital investment and all the trappings that come with it. But they have just accepting a minority investment (personal investment) from Jeff Bezos reading through the comments makes me wonder sometimes why people care [...]
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