Twine and smart web filters

Read a cool article in Wired today (or was it Entrepreneur?) about a company called Twine – basically a service that interprets your content interests and recommends cool stuff on the web for you. It’s an invite-only beta and I have no invite, so can’t comment on the service, but the concept is pretty sweet. [...]

How TurboTax saves my life on an annual basis

Today is April 14th, less than one day from the official tax filing deadline of April 15th. Logged into TurboTax, and for $64.95 (Basic + State), filed my federal and state returns in less than an hour and a half. Got a nice little refund to boot. Wow…what disorganized procrastinators (and NP types on Myers-Briggs) [...]

Rogomo and the future of Ebay for services

Recently took a look at a new app called Rogomo (logo below):

It basically connects self-proclaimed experts to people in need of said expertise through a fee-based remote consultation model. There are other services like it (think Guru, Elance, Rentacoder, etc) but this one is one of the newest incarnations and is done very well (very [...]

Web 2.next – a half-assed idea

There’s a lot of potential in the web 2.0 aggregation space. Ultimately, web 2.0/the new web is all about how to share your life and learn about/connect to the lives of others. Here’s my grand plan:
1) Start by tearing down the social networking walls to create a grand social network (GSN, for short)
2) Integrate fast [...]

Friendfeed’s attempt to reduce the clutter

Friendfeed is a social aggregation site started by a few ex-Googlers. For all of your friends (and friends-of-friends) signed into the service, it finds a list of the websites that they use (e.g., Twitter, Google Talk, Flickr) and aggregates their activity into a single, visually appealing and (largely) user-friendly feed. It definitely fulfills my criteria [...]