The Death of Twitter

The Death of Twitter

Recently there has been rumors about the death of twitter. Some people have greeted this meme with cheers. Others have shuttered with horror. Twitter is a free service that rebroadcasts a message sent to a twitter account out via a cell phone text message to all the people who follow it. Messages can be sent using a cell phone, a web page or even a terminal window if you’re a perl hacker. The...

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The Zoho Experiment

The Zoho Experiment

When I attended the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco last week, I did not know all of what to expect. I am not surprised that I saw multiple MS Office replacement products. Some were open source and some had minimal cost. But what did surprise me was the variation in quality of the offerings. I won’t name the ones I did not like, but the coolest one by far was Zoho Office. Zoho is...

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iGTD Helps My Productivity and Peace of Mind

iGTD Helps My Productivity and Peace of Mind

I started using iGTD in May and I absolutely love it. iGTD is a Mac app based on David Allen’s ideas in his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. The developer of this free software is releasing updates seemingly every week, full of subtle and elegant improvements. The user community is very active and there is a great level of responsiveness on the part of Mr....

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