I just heard about a new online tool recently called Springpad. It allows you to quickly organize and share a variety of bits and pieces of information that you collect throughout the day that are important to you and put them into defined structure and places. The other benefit of Springpad is that it harnesses the power of the social networking world and allows you to interact with and share your collections of data with those that are important to you too. I would say the power of Springpad doesn’t rely in it’s ability to collect your information though, it’s more powerful in the way it allows you to organize, share and complement what you’ve saved with other important information that’s related. This is the... [Read more]

Prior to getting into consulting and technology development, I spent about a decade in the travel industry. I quickly moved into a technology role within travel so I became quickly interested in any new travel related technologies. To this day I still enjoy keeping tabs on some of the travel tools that are now available online. The Dopplr website is a very interesting travel tool that doesn’t serve as a reservations assisting application, but is used more for sharing and interacting with your reservation after they’re booked. In addition, it also lets you share your travel plans easily with your friends, family and other people you trust and want to see your travel itinerary. If part of your professional career puts you in the... [Read more]

Are you color blind? Maybe you just design like it. Color can really pull emotions out of us that we maybe didn’t expect. When you’re designing a new graphic, website, or some other piece of art, getting the colors right can be pretty important. The Color Scheme Designer website is now in it’s third major iteration and version for users and it will give you quite a bit of information to make sure your next color palette for that project will be exactly what you needed. The site let’s you select your color preferences on a color wheel and then depending on the type of color scheme you’re needing to put together, it gives you recommendations on all the other colors. You can put together color schemes for: mono, complement,... [Read more]

2009 will go down in history as the year everything at least seemed to change if it didn’t really change completely. It’s become a new world for many people with lots of change in a variety of areas. Perhaps the one thing that still remained the same is that the web is still almost central to much of what we do. MediaWeek has released their 2009 Digital Hotlist that covers just what has been happening in the world of the web and technology. Facebook – up from #2 on the list in 2008. This site is larger in population than most of the other countries in the world. I used to think Facebook would be replaced sometime by something cooler, not so sure now. Hulu – I’ve been using this more to get some free entertainment.... [Read more]

I see more and more efforts and opportunities to try and get smaller as the world around us gets overwhelmed with more and more information. For some reason as the world appears to get smaller in front of us, there’s a desire to get more in touch with what’s happening around us locally as well. Outside.in is working on putting it all together for you. They want to let you know what’s happening, right where you are, right at this moment. It’s being all collected and packaged together in this "hyperlocal" goal. If you’re a visitor to the site, you can put in your address, neighborhood or zip code and get details and links to the news that’s happening around you. If you’re a publisher you can... [Read more]