See my full review of Wesabe here.
My first suggestion for Wesabe is to create “training wheels”, a suggested series of tags, structured according to some higher level organization. Many users aren’t going to think far enough ahead to plan this out themselves the first time they use the service. Wesabe can [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Wesabe: social personal finance
Published June 14th, 2007 in personal finance, personal productivity, review and web application.I’ve been using Wesabe for over six months now, and just finally had time to sit down and write about it. Its been picking up some traction on some top blogs like A VC and Gotham Girl, and I wanted to join in on the fun because i don’t think the analysis is in [...]
Kiva.org - fav app of the moment
Published June 7th, 2007 in Uncategorized, review, social entrepreneurship, web application and webapps.Just got into Kiva.org yesterday. I had seen it many times before, but really wanted to see the site pick up traction before I spent much time on it. Cut me some slack! There were so many silly web2.0 companies coming out that I could never keep up.
Luckily, Rod, from 5280Angel in [...]
I’m a big fan of software that is actually useful. The rest is just clutter, and most of it falls into the clutter category.
Marc Andreessen covers his OSX killer apps of 2007, and has some pretty solid suggestions.
I agree with:
Netnewsire (though its slowly getting replaced by google reader)
VLC (couldnt live without it)
Ecto (though eventually [...]
My tennis obsessed girlfriend has been rubbing off on me lately, so now I’ve got the bug to watch some Roland Garros, live.
I hate TV, and don’t want cable, so I can’t just add the Tennis Channel to our tab.
Some baseball obsessed friends of mine mentioned that they could subscribe to streaming video of all [...]
Google Reader heading in the right direction… slowly….. but surely
Published June 5th, 2007 in RSS, Uncategorized and web application.A few weeks ago (or more) the Google Reader team announced that they had created a “Reader trends” page to report on your Reading habits. Some rss readers have included basic metrics, but I havn’t seen anything this in-depth. Looking forward to learning more about what I read, and where I read.
Today, the [...]
Sharing Photos with Flickr (or any other service for that matter)
Published June 1st, 2007 in Personal Tech, photos, web apps and workflow.My friend and co-worker Jason recently came back from the Hamptons, and wanted an easy way to share his photos with all of the people that were there. He put together instructions for how to use Flickr groups, and was kind of surprised by how many steps where involved.
Honestly, I wasn’t so shocked. [...]
