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Sep29	Google Reader Gets New Look and Features Diane Ensey September 29, 2006 Know More: Google Reader, the RSS reader of the Google family, has been updated. To tell you the truth, I didn't much like Google Reader and can't remember what it was like. The new Reader, however, is getting closer to being useable. One thing I really like is being able to mark everything as read. Just what is needed after two days without checking my feeds. Some other features per the site: Expanded view and list view Simplified sharing functionality Improved read-state management Infinite scrolling Unread counts Posted at 4:34 PM \| Permalink
Sep29	Web 2.0 Drinking Game Diane Ensey September 29, 2006 As a veteran of such drinking games as "Hi Bob" and "Miami Vice", I'm please to announce the Web 2.0 drinking game. My favorites:Fickr:Take a drink for every picture of someone's cat. Finish a six pack if you've posted pictures... Continue Reading Posted at 4:24 PM \| Permalink
Sep28	Six Major Problems with WebOS Diane Ensey September 28, 2006 Ebrahim Ezzy comments on the downside of WebOS - basically virtual desktops that are on the internet. The desktops contain toolbars, widgets, and folders just like your regular local desktop. I haven't really seen the point of them and Ezzy... Continue Reading Posted at 9:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep27	One Person's Real World Insight Into Web Applications Diane Ensey September 27, 2006 Web Applications - those applications that run through your browser with no software to download - fascinate me beyond just my blog here. I'm starting to integrate them into my work style. What I've found is: Most of the time,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:09 AM \| Permalink
	Security and Exchange Commission's EDGAR to Receive Technical Facelift Diane Ensey September 27, 2006 The SEC reports that its EDGAR database is moving into the present, with real-time, streaming data using RSS, ATOM and other automated web tools. Currently EDGAR is nothing more than a filing cabinet filled with great information, but painful to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:57 AM \| Permalink
Sep25	13 Ways Business Are Using Second Life Diane Ensey September 25, 2006 Second Life is a complex virtual world making a lot of news lately, but just what can it be used for. Here are some used real businesses are finding for Second Life: A research platform on social interactions and behaviour.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep22	OneWebDay - Let's All Hold Hands and Sing Like Whos Diane Ensey September 22, 2006 Today is OneWebDay - I didn't know about it until I saw it on some other blogs. OneWebDay's mission is to "create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life."The organizers invite folks to get involved in... Continue Reading Posted at 6:12 PM \| Permalink
Sep21	Zookoda for Sale Diane Ensey September 21, 2006 Zookoda announced yesterday that it is for sale, seeking a "much larger family with synergistic products that help drive exposure and users."Zookoda is a handy web application that pull blog post teasers from your blog and sends them as a... Continue Reading Posted at 3:03 PM \| Permalink
Sep20	Marqui Offers NonProfits Free Web Marking Solution Diane Ensey September 20, 2006 Marqui (see my review), providers of an awesome web marketing solution, announced today that they will award free use of their product to a nonprofit organization: Marqui www.marqui.com, a leading provider of Web Marketing Solutions, today announced that they will... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink
	Selling Web Applications to 'Real' People Diane Ensey September 20, 2006 I live in rural Eastern Washington city of around 80,000 - far from the tech-dense environs of Seattle-Bellevue-Redmond. Most residents here are Republican, convervative with a blue-collar mentality. Last night, at a local chamber event, I introduced the idea of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep19	Grazr - A New Way to Display Your Feeds Diane Ensey September 19, 2006 Grazr 1.0 launched today and it is interesting, but hard to explain. Per the website: Grazr is a publishing tool for feeds. It lets you quickly and easily display RSS, RDF, Atom, and OPML files on any Web page so... Continue Reading Posted at 9:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CoComment Has Lured Me Back Diane Ensey September 19, 2006 I tried the previous iteration of CoComment out and didn't like it - it was clunky and seemed not to work with a lot of sites. Finally, I was talked into trying the upgraded version by my editor and colleague,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep18	Nickelodian Extends Social Media to Parents Diane Ensey September 18, 2006 Nickelodian is behind ParentsConnect.com, a new social networking site aimed specifically at parents of children of all ages. 'Specially trained' host parents facilitate the discussions and share their own experiences.With Nickelodian behind it, especially if they advertise on the network,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:45 AM \| Permalink
	Defining Web 2.0 Diane Ensey September 18, 2006 The battle to define Web 2.0 has been going on ever since the term was coined. According to Steve Rubel, InformationWeek is throwing out a definition of their own:"Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their... Continue Reading Posted at 9:52 AM \| Permalink
Sep16	GroupLoop Announces Enhancements Diane Ensey September 16, 2006 From their blog: For groups with multiple committees, the "Home" tab now displays recent activity that pertains to you as a person, across all your committees. This helps you notice new items without having to switch the committee view. We've... Continue Reading Posted at 6:48 PM \| Permalink
Sep15	Scrapblog - Cute Alternative to Flickr Diane Ensey September 15, 2006 Scrapblog is an idea that I'm amazed isn't part of Flickr. Users upload photos and then choose backgrounds, graphics and text to make a scrapbook page. Multiple pages make up the scrapbook, which is then published on the web.What I'd... Continue Reading Posted at 8:51 AM \| Permalink
Sep14	Bringing the Virtual into the Real World Diane Ensey September 14, 2006 With the advent of 3D printing, you can now bring an object or avatar created in a virtual world into the real world. Mark Wallace reports on Fabjectory, which will produce a physical model of your avator for $75 and... Continue Reading Posted at 7:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep12	GoToMeeting Announces Mac Support in Feature Upgrade Diane Ensey September 12, 2006 Citrix, the company behind GoToMeeting, announced today that it is adding and upgrading features in its GoToMeeting 3.0. Accounts should be upgraded within the next two weeks.New features include:Macintosh® Attendee Support — Mac-based attendees can now join and view GoToMeeting... Continue Reading Posted at 4:08 PM \| Permalink
	Zoho CRM Diane Ensey September 12, 2006 I'm a big fan of Zoho's applications and the company itself. Their responsiveness to suggestions is amazing and they truly care about what people think of their applications.Today I tested Zoho CRM, their customer relationship management application, and I am... Continue Reading Posted at 7:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep11	Sprinko - Search Engine Offers Unique Features Diane Ensey September 11, 2006 Sprinko is a search engine tool with some interesting features. My favorite so far is the ability to double-click on a word and have the definition pop up - I wish all applications had this feature!Beside a regular web search,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:19 AM \| Permalink
Sep 8	Second Life User Files Hacked Diane Ensey September 8, 2006 According to the Official Linden Blog, Second Life user accounts were hacked into on September 6th. Linden Labs discovered the break-in quickly and shut down the hacker's means of access, but some unencrypted information was comprised:...potentially including Second Life account... Continue Reading Posted at 12:44 PM \| Permalink
Sep 7	Six Apart Acquires Rojo Diane Ensey September 7, 2006 Six Apart, the company behind Typepad, MoveableType, Vox and LiveJournal, has purchased Rojo, a newsreader company.Most people see this as a smart move. On its own, Rojo had a tough time against such big players in the feedreader business as... Continue Reading Posted at 9:29 AM \| Permalink
	DimDim Conferencing Application is Released Diane Ensey September 7, 2006 I just briefly tried out DimDim's widely anticipated open-source answer to web conferencing applications and was underwhelmed. It is slow with a clunky interface and works only with Internet Explorer at this time.Robin Good has more extensive coverage, although colored... Continue Reading Posted at 9:20 AM \| Permalink
	Social Marketing vs. Social Media Marketing Diane Ensey September 7, 2006 I didn't realize there was a difference between 'Social Marketing' and 'Social Media Marketing' until I read this post by Nedra Weinreich. Social Marketing has been used as a term since 1971 and refers to the use of marketing techniques... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 6	Microsoft Vista Pricing Diane Ensey September 6, 2006 Microsoft Vista, the new operating system to be released in January, will be priced at $99 - $259 per copy, with just a miniscule discount if you buy multiple licenses at one time. Here is the breakdown, courtesy of Robert... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 5	Office 2.0 Conference Diane Ensey September 5, 2006 If I hadn't already blown my budget going to the Blog Business Summit at the end of October, I'd go to the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, October 11-12 as well. Office 2.0 is the movement away from desktop... Continue Reading Posted at 11:19 AM \| Permalink
Sep 1	Housekeeping... Diane Ensey September 1, 2006 Thanks to everyone out there who has been sending me web applications to review. I haven't forgotten about you, but have a backlog of about 20 apps to look at. You should see your review during this month.My theme for... Continue Reading Posted at 7:28 AM \| Permalink

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Sep29	Google Reader Gets New Look and Features Diane Ensey September 29, 2006 Know More: Google Reader, the RSS reader of the Google family, has been updated. To tell you the truth, I didn't much like Google Reader and can't remember what it was like. The new Reader, however, is getting closer to being useable. One thing I really like is being able to mark everything as read. Just what is needed after two days without checking my feeds. Some other features per the site: Expanded view and list view Simplified sharing functionality Improved read-state management Infinite scrolling Unread counts Posted at 4:34 PM \| Permalink
Sep29	Web 2.0 Drinking Game Diane Ensey September 29, 2006 As a veteran of such drinking games as "Hi Bob" and "Miami Vice", I'm please to announce the Web 2.0 drinking game. My favorites:Fickr:Take a drink for every picture of someone's cat. Finish a six pack if you've posted pictures... Continue Reading Posted at 4:24 PM \| Permalink
Sep28	Six Major Problems with WebOS Diane Ensey September 28, 2006 Ebrahim Ezzy comments on the downside of WebOS - basically virtual desktops that are on the internet. The desktops contain toolbars, widgets, and folders just like your regular local desktop. I haven't really seen the point of them and Ezzy... Continue Reading Posted at 9:18 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep27	One Person's Real World Insight Into Web Applications Diane Ensey September 27, 2006 Web Applications - those applications that run through your browser with no software to download - fascinate me beyond just my blog here. I'm starting to integrate them into my work style. What I've found is: Most of the time,... Continue Reading Posted at 9:09 AM \| Permalink
	Security and Exchange Commission's EDGAR to Receive Technical Facelift Diane Ensey September 27, 2006 The SEC reports that its EDGAR database is moving into the present, with real-time, streaming data using RSS, ATOM and other automated web tools. Currently EDGAR is nothing more than a filing cabinet filled with great information, but painful to... Continue Reading Posted at 8:57 AM \| Permalink
Sep25	13 Ways Business Are Using Second Life Diane Ensey September 25, 2006 Second Life is a complex virtual world making a lot of news lately, but just what can it be used for. Here are some used real businesses are finding for Second Life: A research platform on social interactions and behaviour.... Continue Reading Posted at 8:10 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep22	OneWebDay - Let's All Hold Hands and Sing Like Whos Diane Ensey September 22, 2006 Today is OneWebDay - I didn't know about it until I saw it on some other blogs. OneWebDay's mission is to "create, maintain, advance, and promote a global day to celebrate online life."The organizers invite folks to get involved in... Continue Reading Posted at 6:12 PM \| Permalink
Sep21	Zookoda for Sale Diane Ensey September 21, 2006 Zookoda announced yesterday that it is for sale, seeking a "much larger family with synergistic products that help drive exposure and users."Zookoda is a handy web application that pull blog post teasers from your blog and sends them as a... Continue Reading Posted at 3:03 PM \| Permalink
Sep20	Marqui Offers NonProfits Free Web Marking Solution Diane Ensey September 20, 2006 Marqui (see my review), providers of an awesome web marketing solution, announced today that they will award free use of their product to a nonprofit organization: Marqui www.marqui.com, a leading provider of Web Marketing Solutions, today announced that they will... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink
	Selling Web Applications to 'Real' People Diane Ensey September 20, 2006 I live in rural Eastern Washington city of around 80,000 - far from the tech-dense environs of Seattle-Bellevue-Redmond. Most residents here are Republican, convervative with a blue-collar mentality. Last night, at a local chamber event, I introduced the idea of... Continue Reading Posted at 8:49 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep19	Grazr - A New Way to Display Your Feeds Diane Ensey September 19, 2006 Grazr 1.0 launched today and it is interesting, but hard to explain. Per the website: Grazr is a publishing tool for feeds. It lets you quickly and easily display RSS, RDF, Atom, and OPML files on any Web page so... Continue Reading Posted at 9:29 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
	CoComment Has Lured Me Back Diane Ensey September 19, 2006 I tried the previous iteration of CoComment out and didn't like it - it was clunky and seemed not to work with a lot of sites. Finally, I was talked into trying the upgraded version by my editor and colleague,... Continue Reading Posted at 8:23 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep18	Nickelodian Extends Social Media to Parents Diane Ensey September 18, 2006 Nickelodian is behind ParentsConnect.com, a new social networking site aimed specifically at parents of children of all ages. 'Specially trained' host parents facilitate the discussions and share their own experiences.With Nickelodian behind it, especially if they advertise on the network,... Continue Reading Posted at 10:45 AM \| Permalink
	Defining Web 2.0 Diane Ensey September 18, 2006 The battle to define Web 2.0 has been going on ever since the term was coined. According to Steve Rubel, InformationWeek is throwing out a definition of their own:"Web 2.0 is all the Web sites out there that get their... Continue Reading Posted at 9:52 AM \| Permalink
Sep16	GroupLoop Announces Enhancements Diane Ensey September 16, 2006 From their blog: For groups with multiple committees, the "Home" tab now displays recent activity that pertains to you as a person, across all your committees. This helps you notice new items without having to switch the committee view. We've... Continue Reading Posted at 6:48 PM \| Permalink
Sep15	Scrapblog - Cute Alternative to Flickr Diane Ensey September 15, 2006 Scrapblog is an idea that I'm amazed isn't part of Flickr. Users upload photos and then choose backgrounds, graphics and text to make a scrapbook page. Multiple pages make up the scrapbook, which is then published on the web.What I'd... Continue Reading Posted at 8:51 AM \| Permalink
Sep14	Bringing the Virtual into the Real World Diane Ensey September 14, 2006 With the advent of 3D printing, you can now bring an object or avatar created in a virtual world into the real world. Mark Wallace reports on Fabjectory, which will produce a physical model of your avator for $75 and... Continue Reading Posted at 7:16 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep12	GoToMeeting Announces Mac Support in Feature Upgrade Diane Ensey September 12, 2006 Citrix, the company behind GoToMeeting, announced today that it is adding and upgrading features in its GoToMeeting 3.0. Accounts should be upgraded within the next two weeks.New features include:Macintosh® Attendee Support — Mac-based attendees can now join and view GoToMeeting... Continue Reading Posted at 4:08 PM \| Permalink
	Zoho CRM Diane Ensey September 12, 2006 I'm a big fan of Zoho's applications and the company itself. Their responsiveness to suggestions is amazing and they truly care about what people think of their applications.Today I tested Zoho CRM, their customer relationship management application, and I am... Continue Reading Posted at 7:46 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep11	Sprinko - Search Engine Offers Unique Features Diane Ensey September 11, 2006 Sprinko is a search engine tool with some interesting features. My favorite so far is the ability to double-click on a word and have the definition pop up - I wish all applications had this feature!Beside a regular web search,... Continue Reading Posted at 7:19 AM \| Permalink
Sep 8	Second Life User Files Hacked Diane Ensey September 8, 2006 According to the Official Linden Blog, Second Life user accounts were hacked into on September 6th. Linden Labs discovered the break-in quickly and shut down the hacker's means of access, but some unencrypted information was comprised:...potentially including Second Life account... Continue Reading Posted at 12:44 PM \| Permalink
Sep 7	Six Apart Acquires Rojo Diane Ensey September 7, 2006 Six Apart, the company behind Typepad, MoveableType, Vox and LiveJournal, has purchased Rojo, a newsreader company.Most people see this as a smart move. On its own, Rojo had a tough time against such big players in the feedreader business as... Continue Reading Posted at 9:29 AM \| Permalink
	DimDim Conferencing Application is Released Diane Ensey September 7, 2006 I just briefly tried out DimDim's widely anticipated open-source answer to web conferencing applications and was underwhelmed. It is slow with a clunky interface and works only with Internet Explorer at this time.Robin Good has more extensive coverage, although colored... Continue Reading Posted at 9:20 AM \| Permalink
	Social Marketing vs. Social Media Marketing Diane Ensey September 7, 2006 I didn't realize there was a difference between 'Social Marketing' and 'Social Media Marketing' until I read this post by Nedra Weinreich. Social Marketing has been used as a term since 1971 and refers to the use of marketing techniques... Continue Reading Posted at 9:02 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 6	Microsoft Vista Pricing Diane Ensey September 6, 2006 Microsoft Vista, the new operating system to be released in January, will be priced at $99 - $259 per copy, with just a miniscule discount if you buy multiple licenses at one time. Here is the breakdown, courtesy of Robert... Continue Reading Posted at 9:22 AM \| Permalink \| Comments
Sep 5	Office 2.0 Conference Diane Ensey September 5, 2006 If I hadn't already blown my budget going to the Blog Business Summit at the end of October, I'd go to the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco, October 11-12 as well. Office 2.0 is the movement away from desktop... Continue Reading Posted at 11:19 AM \| Permalink
Sep 1	Housekeeping... Diane Ensey September 1, 2006 Thanks to everyone out there who has been sending me web applications to review. I haven't forgotten about you, but have a backlog of about 20 apps to look at. You should see your review during this month.My theme for... Continue Reading Posted at 7:28 AM \| Permalink

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