Category Archives: web2.0

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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Solution for bookmarking…

I can’t remember the last time I used my browsers built in bookmarking functionality (can you?), and for a while I’ve been looking for a better solution for keeping track of sites that I know I”m going to want to come back to. I’ve gone through the following various methods of keeping track of [...]
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NIRI and Web 2.0

For the past 2 years the amazing sales team that I work with at Q4 Web Systems have ventured out to San Diego for the annual NIRI conference. It’s a really important event for us and it’s always great to hear about it when the team get’s back. This morning while I was going through [...]
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jonezy.org.BackpackAPI

Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also [...]
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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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RescueTime: One month later

It’s been about a month since I started using Rescuetime, it’s been a pleasant and eye opening experience. A few of my initial assumptions have proven to be on the mark and some of the others not so much I don’t spend nearly as much time on my computer as I thought I thought I was spending [...]
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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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Twitter, where are you?

Over this past weekend, twitter has experienced some kind of outage that I’ve never really seen before. Twitter has a history of some pretty serious downtime but this is different. The site works and it seems like I am getting updates from some of the people that I follow, but for some reason I am [...]
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Twitter, where is the value?

I’ve been using twitter for about 6 months with varying degrees of “using”. Sometimes it’s a passive view where I see what other people are doing and not really broadcasting what I am doing, other times it’s lot’s of little wonderful nuggets out of my life that make it on there, and the occasional [...]
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