So im the founder of Task.fm – a web based reminder application. Recently, I’ve taken to documenting some of the ways I’ve used reminders. Heres one concept I like to call really short term reminders. The idea is to remind yourself about things that need to happen within the next few hours. You may be [...]
Archives: August 2009
Would You Pay to Bookmark?
Would you pay to bookmark links? Pinboard, a relatively new bookmarking site (I was tempted to call it a “social bookmarking” site, but apparently its not) which charges users a small fee to access the site. The fee (which currently stands at $5.13 and increases with the number of members) is to discourage spammers and [...]
How to Enjoy Twitter
How to enjoy Twitter? Its really quite simple – just ignore everything the “Twitter Gurus” tell you. Ignore the online marketers and social media experts, and start enjoying Twitter again. Don’t Auto-Follow Everyone That Follows You Don’t autofollow unless you enjoy reading spam (Do you Chris Brogan?). The people you will end up following will [...]
Damn You Facebook…Leave FriendFeed Alone
I woke up to find my FriendFeed feed filled with the news that Facebook had acquired FriendFeed. I’m usually excited about news of acquisitions, but this one left me with a feeling of dread. To put it simple, FriendFeed is amazing. Sure it has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the [...]
4 Things Every Online Startup Should Have
Here are 4 tools/concepts every online startup should be using. For many this is basic stuff – but when I was starting out, I found out the hard way. Daily Backups Backup everything! You’re gonna need it. Task.fm recently surged, this resulted in the server constantly crashing and a hundred other problems. Thank god I [...]
