Now that I’ve been using it for a few months, I have to say that GTDinbox (a Firefox plugin that adds functionality for David Allen’s Getting Things Done productivity system to Gmail) has totally rocked my world. It’s definitely improved my productivity and reduced my stress level.
Admittedly, GTD has become a bit of a cult. It’s a benign cult, but some practitioners are absolutely rabid about it, or purists. That’s not me.
Right now, organizing my life and work via e-mail (actually Gmail) is a big enough step forward for me. I’m learning how to use this powerful…

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David Sifry and his new venture, Offbeat Guides.
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David Sifry, founder and former CEO of Technorati, has apparently had enough of new media and of blogs. His new venture is attacking a traditional business: printed travel guides.

Offbeat Guides is a service for printing customized travel books. When you go to the site, it asks you five basic questions: Your name, your destination, your trip’s dates, where you live, and where you’re staying (if you know). With that information, it scours various open sources (like Wikipedia, Wikitravel, and Eventful…) as

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Curious about gardening? Check out Folia, a social network for plant enthusiasts who want to share and learn tips from the successes and failures of those around them.
Much like Ravelry…, the social network for knitters, Folia’s claim to fame is that it lets you share and track your gardening with others whether they’re near or far. It’s also been built up to help you keep an inventory on all your plants and aid you in making swaps with other growers for plants you’d normally have to go out and buy yourself. Think of it like a

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Postica has to be one of the more single-serving Web apps I’ve seen in a long time. The service lets you create a slew of tiny sticky notes that can be maneuvered around the confines of your browser with ajaxian flair. They don’t hover over pages you’re looking at like Diigo or Fleck…; instead it’s all about your personal note space. Whatever notes you create are saved, and can be accessed from wherever. You can also share them with others, and they can send notes to your workspace, too.
Each note is confined to just 140 characters, the

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Yahoo Messenger 9 offers a more elaborate friend list and can display videos and photos in the chat window.
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You can’t take it with you, at least when it comes to your social graph.

But with a new beta version of Yahoo Messenger 9 software released Thursday, users have new options for reconstructing networks of friends and contacts they’ve built elsewhere.

The new beta of Yahoo Messenger 9 can help user invite contacts on AOL, Google’s Gmail and Orkut, Microsoft’s Hotmail, MySpace, and other online services to connect through the Yahoo service. Version 9 also includes a…

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