March 10th 2010
No one is ready to give up on printed materials yet and a number of recent startups are trying their hardest to carry the print world into this century. One of those is a new startup called StickyBits that enables you to put your own barcodes on anything and have them display content of your [...]
March 9th 2010
SalesForce was one of the first major web applications that showed people the value of having shared information live in the cloud. Unfortunately through the years SalesForce has become bloated with features and additional products, causing their prices to creep up, and virtually making it inaccessible for small- and medium-sized businesses. A new competitor called [...]
March 8th 2010
We are a huge fan of the Basecamp product for project management and consider it the gold standard. But in all of its simplicity there are some things I wish Basecamp did different. One of those is how difficult Basecamp makes deciphering everyone’s workload. I could use Gantt charts for this, but that typically provides [...]
March 5th 2010
We are always amazed at how many product and service sites rely on such a plain feedback and support form. It’s typically a three-question form with the e-mail forwarded to one person on your team, who may or may not forward it on to the right person to answer the question. Often these questions go [...]
March 4th 2010
A few weeks ago we wrote about Cushy, a simple Content Management System for web sites that enables sites that have already been built to add features of content management systems after the fact. This week we discovered a new simple CMS that takes the genre a step further. SurrealCMS is a free app that [...]
March 3rd 2010
Whether you are a web developer or a small-business owner who has worked with a web developer, you are probably aware that font choices are sparse on the web. You may have spent years refining the look and feel of your print pieces and then told that none of those fonts will work on your [...]
March 2nd 2010
We are still amazed at the amount of sites that make visitors open up a lengthy PDF, often in a new window. The visitor clicks on a link and unexpectedly has to sit through the download before opening up to page one. Apparently none of these sites have discovered Issuu, a dead-simple way to dynamically [...]
March 1st 2010
Typically everyone in an office uses the same one or two browsers and email clients. This gives you get a good sense for how your website or that email you send quarterly looks on those systems. But how does it look for the rest of the world outside your office doors? Litmus is a new [...]
February 26th 2010
If everyone in your school wore the same color clothes every day and you walked in wearing pink, red, and orange, you would definitely get noticed. That’s the philosophy and hope of new accounting startup Brightbook. Attempting to change the way we think about bookkeeping, Brightbook sums it up like this: Brightbook is fantastic at [...]
February 25th 2010
We showed you a polling app last week that allowed you to ask any type of question, get any type of answer and have unlimited control over your branding. Urtak takes polling in a completely different direction, boiling potential answers down into two possibilities – yes or no. While this may seem overly simplistic the [...]