Twitter Buys Summize: Does it Matter? (10)
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If you’re a Twitter user you likely saw the news this morning: Twitter bought Summize. The deal, covered on the business level by our parent blog GigaOm, brings Twitter some more smart engineers and a potential route to monetization. But what does it mean to the average web worker? Summize - rebranded this morning as Twitter Search - in case you haven’t looked at it, is an excellent search interface for Twitter, letting you easily ...
What You Should Know Before you Switch from BlackBerry to iPhone (24)
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Last weekend, I was one of the 1 million who was crazy enough to wait on a 3 hour line to buy an iPhone 3G. Until last Thursday, I was quite content to be a BlackBerry user for the foreseeable future. I really liked my BlackBerry 8800. A lot. So why the switch? Let’s face it…the iPhone 3G is a mighty fine web working smartphone. As fantastic as the BlackBerry is for letting you connect ...
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jeff said:
Revolutionary. Will SOMEONE mark my words?
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dmkanter said:
as someone switching, this article might be interesting if i read it.
GottaPark Helps Drivers Find a Space (1)
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The price of gas may be skyrocketing but as web workers, we can’t avoid but to bring the car at times to attend meetings. More than the price of gas, however, it is more stressful to look for a place to park. Enter GottaPark, a website launching today where people with unused parking places meet up with those that are in need of a space to park. Anyone can register their parking spaces, rates and ...
Steelcase Wants to Sell you a Walkstation (5)
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Looking for a way to get more exercise, despite being a deskbound web worker? Steelcase (makers of high-end office furniture) have an idea for you: the Walkstation. Based on the idea that you can burn enough calories to make a difference, even if you don’t work up a sweat, the Walkstation marries an adjustable-height desk and monitor arm with a low-speed treadmill There are plenty of other bells and whistles here, including a magnetic sensor ...
Filtrbox Dials the Noise Way Down (9)
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I hate learning curves. I hate having to futz and fiddle with my apps to figure them out. I want the functionality to be intuitive, and if it is not, I throw up my hands and move on to something else. I attribute this impatience to information overload and don’t want to have to use a crowbar to insert complex instructions for an app into my brain when it is supposed to make my life ...
Web Worker Daily » Archive LaterThis Saves Links for Later « (4)
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If you’re like me, you’re faced with a barrage of web links coming at you from all directions throughout your work day, be it the RSS reader, email or the twitter stream. It’s really easy to get distracted. As much as I try to resist, I do end up spending a good amount of time browsing around. Most things I can quickly dismiss but sometimes I do find something of interest and wish to set ...
Bizroof Offers Free CRM (6)
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We’ve looked at several free CRM (Customer Relations Management) packages in the past. Now there’s a new entrant in the category: Bizroof is offering free accounts for their hosted offering, which handles a good chunk of tracking functionality. Their FAQ says that there will free accounts, though they may have limits (and details on paid accounts are not yet available). Bizroof handles storing and cross-referencing a bunch of basics for anyone doing business: contacts and ...
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Contact management and CRM are not one and the same...
Perfecting Change Management (1)
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Efforts to change how a vital process works in business often fail — whether due to project mismanagement, miscommunication, too few resources, a reordering of priorities. But the key factor may be a lack of expertise in change management, according to Forrester analyst Connie Moore, who writes on the topic in, “Peer Practices: An Interview With A Business Change Management Practitioner.” Whether we’re talking about how to reduce the number of days in the accounts ...
Getting Started: Choosing Your Business Name (1)
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The new web worker faces a myriad of decisions, from what to put on business cards to what business structure to choose. Running through many of these decisions is a single thread: what company name will you operate under? Even if you’re a one man show (as many of us are), having a corporate identity can help make you look more legitimate to potential clients as well as help you treat your own work more ...
Google’s Developer Videos: From AJAX to OpenSocial (5)
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Over the past several days, Google has been busy posting many videos shot at its recent Google I/O and Developer Day events. These were held all around the world, and for anyone involved with not just Google’s tools, but many of the prevalent development tools of the day, they’re worth a look. We’ve been covering some of the ones relevant to open source on Ostatic, and a number of these will be of interest to ...
A Pay Cut for Telecommuting? (12)
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A widely-reported survey done earlier this year by job site Dice Holdings comes up with a somewhat perplexing result: 37% of the IT professionals they surveyed said they would be willing to take up to a 10% pay cut to telecommute. On the one hand, this seems like an obvious reaction to the spiraling cost of gasoline. But on the other, it seems like a very one-sided way to look at the economics of telecommuting. ...
Web Worker Daily » Archive TokBox Releases Downloadable App for Video Chat « (5)
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TokBox, a free service that allows you to talk simply with your friends and co-workers over live video, has released a new downloadable application built using Adobe Air. With the new application, you do not have to be on TokBox’s website to accept or make video calls. Installing is a breeze (something that is common to applications built using Adobe AIR). When installed, it acts like your usual instant messaging application. Just click on a ...
iPhone 3G: 1 Million Sold (4)
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Well, that didn’t take long. Despite the activation hassles, despite the cost, Apple had a phenomenally successful opening weekend for the iPhone 3G: by Sunday, over 1 million of them had been sold. That’s a lot of phones - and perhaps more than phones: Om Malik argues on our parent GigaOm that the device is important enough to drive broadband demand. Like our readers, we’re a diverse bunch here at WWD. Some of our staff ...
Open Thread - Did You Survive The iPocalypse? (3)
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Friday’s iPhone launch caused quite the buzz as thousands braved long lines and multi-hour waits only to walk away with unactivated phones, or no phone at all. Similarly, upgrades to the new software left many 1st Gen users without phone service as well. Sure there were jokes, but there was also much anger and many questions. How could Apple have botched this so badly? If this was any other company, would the reactions have been ...
Web Worker Daily » Archive 6 Free Ways to Track Down Site Issues « (19)
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Live by the web, die by the web - or so it seems sometimes when you’re a web worker. Having all of your resources, from email to project management to recruiting, online is great: right up until the time when you can’t get through to one of the sites you depend on. Depending on which site goes missing, the results can range from annoyance to disaster. Fortunately, the overall web really is a pretty reliable ...
SuccessFactors: Easy Performance Reviews (4)
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If you’re working as part of a distributed online team, you may some day find yourself managing that team - I know, it’s happened to me more than once. From there, it’s only a short hop to carrying out formal performance reviews. If you shudder at the thought, but have to carry out the work, take a look at SuccessFactors: a web-based performance reviews assistant. The lowest-priced (starting at $99) Manager’s Edition offers enough hand-holding ...
Bootstrap: Bookkeeping for the Self-Employed (6)
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Bootstrap wants to be your online bookkeeping service - at least, if your requirements are simple enough for their streamlined interface to handle. Their sweet spot is the self-employed worker who needs to track income and expenses in a format that’s easy to transfer to the IRS Schedule C at the end of the year. As you enter money in and money out, Bootstrap keeps track of your profits and losses, and makes some simple ...
Four Free, Offbeat Apps for the Mac (11)
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While I use a PC more often than a Mac, I have a MacBook and often add useful applications to it from my sojourns through the worlds of open source software and free ware. Here are four free, useful applicaitons for your Mac. Bean is a free, open source word processor for the Mac, and it’s designed to pop up and close quickly, with a very simple interface. Bean is really more of a text ...
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Some great ideas for making the Mac even better (is that even possible?)
Atomkeep Tackles Profile Management (7)
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If you’re like many web workers, you have accounts with profiles all over the place: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jobster…so what do you do when you need to update your description or photo or other profile info? Atomkeep hopes they have an answer for you: set up a profile at the Atomkeep site, and you can synchronize it with all of your other services at once. Atomkeep understands how to log in (on your behalf) to ...
AideRSS Opens Up PostRank (8)
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We’ve covered the RSS ranking service AideRSS a couple of times before - in a nutshell, they analyze the activity surrounding an RSS feed to help you identify the most talked-about items, on the theory that those are the ones you should pay attention to first if you’ve got limited time. They’ve gotten some traction through their integration with services like NewsGator and Trawlr. Now the AideRSS folks have taken another major step: they’ve opened ...
