Renaissance 2.0
I tried to install the Google toolbar to my “Google” Chrome browser and got this most unexpected error message. Google toolbar requires Firefox 2.0 or later. Would you like to download the latest version of Firefox? Not only is it idiotic that Google’s toolbar doesn’t work on its very own Google Chrome browser, but it…
I was ranting this morning on twitter about how under-achieving Delicious.com has been since Yahoo acquired them several years ago. I was feeling frustrated that it just hasn’t added many cool social networking tools like so many others in their space such as Foxmarks (now xMarks), faves, magnolia, etc.). I think it should give us…
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2009 will be the Less is More year as increasing numbers of startups become shutdowns and people start to focus on using less services. The waves of early adopters has already begun to settle down and even the most excited web 2.0 proponents (myself included) realize that there are only so many minutes in a…
I’m all about making lists so this won’t surprise anyone. I love the fact that there are so many list services but most of them do not take full advantage of social networking and the inherent ability to share and build lists with groups online. Here’s a recent post I’ve done on Mashable regarding wish…
I did a post recently for Mashable called “40 Great Resources for Making Lists” where I covered a slew of services that bring smiles to the faces of anal retentive types like myself. As with any post on a big blog, there were a bunch of great links shared in the comments. I’ve combined my…
The current trend for web startups seems to be either the “everything but the kitchen sink” or the “aggregation or bust” approach. Sites either try to be your everything (and fail) or they try to manage and aggregate all of your data from other sites (and fail). So many startups have lofty ambitions and delusions…
If you want to make sure you are following everyone that’s following you on FriendFeed then you need to use this cool service called FriendVenn that’s just like the excellent Twitter Karma service that does the same thing for Twitter members. Just enter your login ID and password for FriendFeed and you will see the…
Grouply strives to become the Friendfeed of online groups by aggregating all of the different groups you belong to on sites such Yahoo Groups and Google Groups. The concept is excellent because it saves a great deal of time and effort by allowing you to keep up with all of your messages and groups from…
What better way to learn how to launch a startup than to get advice from those who’ve proven to be successful with their own startups? Here is a collection of excellent wisdom and advice from some of the best startup sages in web history. Also included are links to their blogs and twitter profiles. Both…
Writers have always been resistent to change when it comes to accepting new technology as useful tools. It probably started with writing instrument replacements such as the quill, pen, pencil and later the typewriter which most writers resisted in the beginning. Ultimately, these new gadgets all became common writing instruments. The same thing happened with…