Mint.com is tearing it up these days, and almost blew Wesabe completely out of the water if it hadn’t been for wesabe’s recent new features.
After a few minutes of using the UI I realized a core feature had changed for the worst, assigning categories to transactions.
Its used to have a popup that contained all the [...]
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Great idea: CRM research bookmarklet
Published May 8th, 2008 in CRM, bookmarklet, great idea and web apps.Some I’m throwing out some free ideas!
We have all these bookmarking tools, and we have all these clipping, notebooking, and research tools. But what are they all used for?
I tend to use them a lot for research on people/companies in my industry, and often times this would be really useful to have directly in my [...]
Great idea: bookmarlet for importing contact information
Published May 8th, 2008 in bookmarklet, desktop software, great idea and web apps.So I’ve raved about CRM systems and managing personal contact information, but now I have a solution, which I hope someone has already built.
Someone needs to build a bookmarklet that lets you highlight contact information, and then with the click of a button send it to the right contact management tool (outlook, highrise, salesforce, etc).
I [...]
New startup taking bookmarking/archiving to the next level
Published May 8th, 2008 in bookmarking and web apps. Here’s a little tool called Iterasi, that sounds like a big step in the direction of my ravings on tracking online data, collectively researching links and articles, and a recent post of an article on information processing online written long ago but lost.
Here’s what VentureBeat said:
Instead of just saving links, you use Iterasi to [...]
Information processing online: what I save and where I save it
Published May 8th, 2008 in Personal Tech and web apps.This is the second post on a series of how I process information online, what tools i use, and what I think would be the perfect solution. First, lets address the specific types of information I save:
I save Links
I save/archive the full or [...]
VC style due diligence on web apps
Published April 30th, 2008 in personal productivity and web apps.When I have a need, and go to find a web application to meet that need, why does it seem like I have to do VC style due diligence on all the companies in that space to make my final decision.Simple answers:1) I’m super obsessive compulsive about web apps2) There are too many web apps3) [...]
warning: this post is a mess, and mostly an example of how much of a pain it can be to find the right application
I don’t even know what to call this category of application!! How am I ever going to find the “Last.fm” or “del.icio.us” of reading applications?I really focused on 3 things1) how [...]
I first wrote about travel sites here, but I’ve been traveling even more lately (couple weeks a month) and I’ve been putting some travel sites through the ringer. Here’s my favorite sites, they have to be fast, functional, and provide clear value right from the start (unlike this blog, but im working on getting to [...]
I just read “The Brash Boys at 37 Signals Will Tell Yo: Keep it Simple Stupid” in Wired Magazine, and it got me all fired up to write a response, because I thought it developed an incomplete picture. 37 signals leads the charge for one of Web 2.0’s core tenants, simplicity. Their rapid/rabid [...]
“File” Syncing?
Published March 27th, 2008 in Personal Tech, Software, desktop software, personal productivity and web apps.Lots of new companies are coming out with file syncing products. This irks me, so here’s my rant.Personally I’ve used Foldershare since day one (which has been out for a while, even pre-microsoft), and its been rock solid. I sync “working files” between a couple of bizdev guys and a desktop thats on [...]
