Yesterday I lost a domain name auction at SnapNames (I refuse to link to them).
For those who don’t know, Snap Names is the exclusive domain name expiration dropper for Network Solutions. If you’re monitoring a domain name that’s due to expire and see that it was registered at Network Solutions, you have to use Snap to try to acquire it.
Over the past few months we played around with a number of online collaboration suites. We were searching for a way to organize everything and have a central dashboard to keep track of projects, tasks, and timelines for multiple users.
Some of the tools we tried were Jotspot, PBwiki, Zoho, and Basecamp.
Firefox bookmarklets are some of my favorite tools. Not only are they good for bookmarks, but they also allow you to embed custom javascript to give you one click access to your favorite tools. The one I probably use most often is my “Google It” bookmark which lets me run a keyword search via Google on any website that I’m surfing at the time.
Test it our for yourself. Drag this button/link into your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar Folder:
Several months back I covered a new hosting service called Grid Server by Media Temple that I learned about via TechCrunch. I signed up for an account and played around with it for a few of our sites.
Today we cancelled the account. For our purposes it just wasn’t worth it. We’re going to continue using Dreamhost for all our hosting.
The Grid Server service is just not fully baked yet in my opinion. There were a few planned outages, the speed was not any better in our testing, and the back-end (while slick-looking) was just too confusing.
Last year I tried out a number of different start pages – Pageflakes, Google IG, Protopage, Fold (now defunct), etc. and found some issues that irked me with most of them – Google IG’s modules were too big, pageflakes had organizational problems, and I don’t even remember my beef with protopage (I think it was loading time). After all the testing, I settled with Netvibes and have been using it as my start page/feed-reader ever since.
I haven’t tried Google Reader (nor do I plan to) just because I’m making a conscious effort to stop feeding the Google borg. The big G has way too much info already. Let’s just hope Netvibes doesn’t get acquired by Google.
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