Category Archives: Web Apps

The Twitter Book [Review]

Posted on July 5, 2009 by Bruce Keener

As little as a year ago, I had a negative view of Twitter. I thought it was a time-waster and hoped it was a passing fad: I was concerned that it would turn everyone into time-wasting dummies. But, after seeing … Continue reading →

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Processing Information When There’s Too Much of It

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In this day and time, we are all required to process a lot of information. This can have several consequences, including: Some of the noisy information (undesired information that is not useful) can drown out the useful information. Some information … Continue reading →

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Google Friend Connect Being Used at Keener Living

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Beginning today (4 December 2008), we are using Google’s Friend Connect on Keener Living. You can access it from the home page of this blog (on the sidebar). Quoting from Google’s introductory article on Friend Connect: Friend Connect makes it … Continue reading →

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Using Gmail Within Your Projects

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Bruce Keener

It’s a good practice to have all project material in one place, even emails, and Gmail makes it easy to do. The way Gmail helps you with this is by giving each email conversation a unique web address, or URL … Continue reading →

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Interesting Harvard Business Article

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Harvard Business Publishing has an interesting article on whether Web 2.0 is living on thin air. I decided to share it with you for a couple of reasons. For one, it’s a sensible article. For another, the publication consistently has … Continue reading →

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Getting The Most Value from Your Delicious Bookmarks

Posted on August 20, 2008 by Bruce Keener

I know that several of you, like me, use the Delicious bookmarking service, and so I am sharing some thoughts with you on how to get more value out of that service. It is my hope that the power users … Continue reading →

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My Initial Encounter with MobileMe

Posted on July 14, 2008 by Bruce Keener

In this article, I describe my initial experimentation with Apple’s new MobileMe service. Now, while I have encountered a few problems with it, which I describe, some people are not having problems with it at all. For example, my friend … Continue reading →

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Experimenting With Productivity Web Apps

Posted on June 16, 2008 by Bruce Keener

The recent reader survey showed that many of you are interested in Web Apps. So, I decided to experiment with a few that are geared toward productivity: Remember The Milk Toodledo Basecamp I have not finished testing these, but I’ll … Continue reading →

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Found: findingDulcinea

Posted on June 4, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Actually, I did not find it: someone pointed the site out to me after my recent article on Mahalo. Like Mahalo, findingDulcinea is a “human-powered” search engine. No, I am not trying to get you to stop using Google or … Continue reading →

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Mahalo: a Web 2.0 Search Engine

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Bruce Keener

The purpose of this post is two-fold: To introduce you to Mahalo, a different type of search engine. You can use it to supplement your Google, Yahoo!, and MSN searches. Refer you to an interesting article on Web 2.0, as … Continue reading →

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