Comments on: Your Favorite Web Things

By: Josh Klein

Josh Klein — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:04:14 +0000

1. Google Mail – How is it that a webmail client is the most sophisticated mail program around? I stopped trying to find old emails on my desktop app long ago. But with Gmail, all it takes is remembering a few choice words.

2. LinkedIn – A social network with a niche purpose. It’s never been so easy to find a new hire within your own network, get and receive recommendations, and even spark the meeting of new people in your company.

3. Twitter – Boy was I skeptical of this one early on. Now, it’s become invaluable. Twitter lets me stay in touch, but more important is a source of instant news and meetup info for when I’m on the move.

4. Google Analytics & Google Website Optimizer – For all the reasons stated above. What a set of tools.

5. Stumbleupon – A recommendation engine for websites based on aggregated user ratings from the millions of others using the site. Better, it’s a source for finding the people in your niche who are passionate enough to review and spread messages. Connecting with those people has never been easier.

By: Andrea J. Stenberg

Andrea J. Stenberg — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:05:26 +0000

I’ve found Facebook and LinkedIn to be incredibly useful for networking. I’ve made several business connections that have led to joint venture projects and increased my business by using these tools.

I love WordPress. It’s a great blogging tool and is very versatile.

Mozilla Thunderbird email and calendar program. I like that there are numerous plugins that can expand the functionality of the program.

Yahoo Groups. I couldn’t live without the mailing lists I belong to.

Andrea

By: weekee

weekee — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:09:41 +0000

1. Blogspot: for my business site http:pitstopcafe.blogspot.com
2. Formlogix: for online reservation system
3. Google Calendar: for managing upcoming events for the team.
4. Google Docs: for sharing documents. Like it but somehow doesn’t really take off as much as i like to within the team.
5. Flickr: for sharing photos of the cafe customers.

By: Avin Kline

Avin Kline — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:57:10 +0000

1. Basecamp 2. Highrise 3. Campfire 4. Backpack 5. 37 Signals' next product ... whatever that may be! Web Success Agency would not be near as productive without these great products from 37 Signals.

By: Dina

Dina — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:54:08 +0000

Ok, for now, my 5 are…

Basecamp
guru.com
stompernet
quantcast.com
compete.com

Looking at Freemind.com and now will add websitegrader.com to the list

Loved the post and the comments.

Dina
direct response copywriting

By: Lisa Braithwaite

Lisa Braithwaite — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:58:23 +0000

Google Alerts: I have alerts on my industry, name, website, blog, and every article I submit online. I'm always in the loop! Google Reader: Enough said. . . Meebo: I have widgets on my blog and my website so that visitors can chat with me in real time. I'll second Todd's recommendation of stock.xchng: I use the images for my blog posts and my image-based PowerPoints. Best selection of free images I've found. Pingoat: I use it to ping a bunch of services every time I post to my blog.

By: Todd Andrews

Todd Andrews — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:40:05 +0000

Two resources that I use are mindmapping (with MindMeister) and stock images from stock.xchng.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:58:31 +0000

1) gmail (although not sold on Googledocs, hopefully they improve it)
2) mapquest (it’s easy to create a dynamic link from your web site directly into a mapquest map of the location)
3) alexa.com–great intelligence source on the competition and potential partners
4) adsense–how did small to medium online publishers survive before adsense came along?
5) pdfonline.com–easily converts DOC, RFT, and TXT into PDF then emails the document to you