April 14, 2009

What is the point of LinkedIn?

Posted in Behaviour at 21:23 by Graham King

I’m on LinkedIn, I’m connected to 48 people. I go there, I declare to the world that I know these people. And then what?

If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. There’s:

• a project to find uses for LinkedIn
• a book on finding a point to LinkedIn
• and the company itself had to blog about ten ways to use LinkedIn.

If it takes a blog post, a book, and a community project, to find a point to your web application, I think there may not be one.

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April 7, 2009

Foxden – your life on one page

Posted in Software at 01:21 by Graham King

Update: There is now a user group for Foxden: http://groups.google.com/group/foxden-users

Foxden is a Firefox extension that allows you to tile all the web applications you use on one page. Imagine being able to see your email, your calendar, your bug tracker, feeds, twitter, whatever you use, on one page. Take a look at my setup:

As you can see, I have (counter clockwise from top left) my email, calendar, feed reader, todo list and a local text file for taking notes.

It’s free, should work wherever Firefox 3 works, and it could be yours right now.

Download the Foxden Firefox extension

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