WEB REVIEW: Find your address book perplexing? Consider Plaxo
At heart, Plaxo is a manager for your address book (or Rolodex if you happen to be of a certain generation).
Jim Cota
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SURF THIS: Start benefiting from a social media platform
Seems like almost every day a new social media platform is born. If you added them all up, you would easily be in the hundreds.
Obviously, all of them are too much for all of us to pay much attention to, but there are a few you should not only know about,
but participate in.
SURF THIS: Two sites meet demands of meeting planners
E-mail is a great communication tool. But sometimes, it simply falls flat on its face. TimeBridge and Tungle help users get down to business.
WEB REVIEW: Two sites meet demands of meeting planners
E-mail is a great communication tool. But sometimes, it simply falls flat on its face.<
Two sites meet demands of meeting planners
E-mail is a great communication tool. But sometimes, it sim-ply falls flat on its face. It doesn’t convey emotion well without riddling your messages with little smiley faces to connote a joke, or sarcasm. (As a side note, I feel compelled to tell you that if you’re considering using sarcasm in e-mail, don’t. Sarcasm and […]
SURF THIS: Web Research 101 … going beyond Wikipedia
Wikipedia remains the de facto standard for research, having an archive containing more than 15
million articles. But if you need to go beyond the basic facts, there are a variety of places to turn.
WEB REVIEW: Save the long words for Scrabble
The golden rule should be to communicate clearly.
SURF THIS: Foursquare attempts to corner walk-in business market
Why would you want to check in at various locations on your smart phone?
SURF THIS: Think your family is awkward? Check this out.
Sharing this guilty pleasure makes me feel a little … well, grimy.
SURF THIS: Steve Jobs’ new pad keeps i on the prize
The latest from Apple could change the face of publishing.
COTA: Getting things done is more than just a resolution
When the work seems to pile up, OmniFocus and Things can help productivity.
COTA: Get out of town … but click first
There’s a lot more than Travelocity when it comes to booking travel online.
SURF THIS: Footnoting life: New programs augment reality
Augmented reality is, essentially, the melding of our physical world with digital information.
COTA: For cool toys to covet, Playgrounder’s the thing
Just keep repeating to yourself: Stuff won’t make me happy…stuff won’t make me happy…
COTA: File sharer Drop.io is as an Internet team player
Need your entire team—no matter where they are—to be working together? Here’s a site that will help.
SURF THIS: Been avoiding Twitter? Time to reconsider
"Do you tweet?" The answer for you (and your business) needs to be, “Yes, I do.”
SURF THIS: Let’s just back up … with a Drobo
Hard drives fail—almost all of them, at one point or another. Back-ups are a little clunky to set up
and keep up with, so most people I know ignore it. I finally decided I couldn’t avoid it any longer.
Stitcher is more than just Pandora for news junkies
Stitcher bills itself as “a leading mobile audio company that provides a revolutionary media service which allows audio content to be easily aggregated, organized and shared on mobile devices.” It’s sort of like DVR for radio.
SURF THIS: Stitcher is more than just Pandora for news junkies-WEB ONLY
I really like: a) having something all about me, b) doing something on my own time, and c) having some sort of idea what’s going on. There are, of course, a couple of problems: a) most things aren’t about me, b) time is rarely my own, and c) there’s so much going on in the […]
Swine of the times: An epidemic like no other
Why discuss the swine flu in a Web column? Well, with information regarding the current situation changing on a daily, even hourly,
basis, the Centers for Disease Control is working hard to keep people informed, including "broadcasting" updates via Twitter.