Mozilla Raindrop and Google Wave Totally Unrelated
First, everyone was waiting with baited breath for Google to release Wave. Google Wave was supposed to be the solution for all of our messaging and social media needs. It would replace FriendFeed, email, Twitter, Facebook, shrink Kanye’s ego, and solve world hunger. Once those few elite who got invites started to use it, we all realized it was no such solution.
Read MoreGetting Things Done with Doit.im
Doit.im is an Adobe AIR application that is closely tied to the original Getting Things Done techniques. The goal is to provide one simple interface that will help you hit the main GTD principles: Collect, Process, Organize, Review, Do. It’s a simple to use application with a clean interface and may be exactly what you’re [...]
Read MoreGetting Started with Xpenser
Xpenser is an expense tracker that focuses on immediately recording expenses so that you can promptly forget about them. Keeping track of where your money is coming from and where it goes is the first step in making sure you start to keep more of it. It’s a simple concept and can be applied in [...]
Read MoreGetting Started with Yahoo Meme
Meme is a Tumblr-like service recently launched by Yahoo. Many have called it a Twitter clone, but the similarities are pretty minimal. The only things they share are those basic features you would find with any microblogging service. Meme is basically a blog where you can post random stuff. There is no 140-character limit, but you probably wouldn’t want to use it for lengthy blog posts.
Read MoreWilliam Kamkwamba’s Streak of Genius
Tom Rielly, partnership director of TED (Technology, Education, Design) Conferences introduced BlackWeb20.com to this amazing young man, William Kamkwamba. William is barely 20 years old, a former school dropout from a small village in Malawi, Africa, and proof positive that technology knows few boundaries. Watch this video about William and note that his next endeavor has a little, ahem, something to do with Internet access.
Read MoreGmail Tasks Adds Email Sharing
Ever since it’s launch last year, Gmail Tasks has been gradually improving. Not only have there been improvements on the back-end to increase responsiveness, but we’ve seen some important feature additions, including: Mobile and Gadget interfaces More advanced methods for managing and editing tasks And Google Calendar integration Tasks quickly became one of the most popular Gmail [...]
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