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Entries Tagged as 'Productivity'

Tips and Tricks for BlackBerry Users

May 6th, 2009 · Comments · Productivity

If you’ve been reading this blog for long enough, you know I don’t own an iPhone. How is it possible for a designer to not own an iPhone? Read one of my most popular posts: “Why I don’t have an iPhone (but might someday).”
I am the proud owner of a BlackBerry 8830 World Edition on [...]

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Why I Work at New Work City

December 1st, 2008 · Comments · Community, Productivity

New Work City, a new coworking space in New York City (get the name?!), opened its doors on Monday, November 3, and I’m pleased to say that I am a part-time member.
What’s “coworking,” you ask? It’s a new movement for freelancers and small business owners of all kinds to stop working at home or out [...]

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10 Worthwhile Twitter Bots

July 19th, 2008 · Comments · Twitter

Yeah, you get it. I love Twitter. It’s a great place to connect with new and interesting people, but it’s also just a good platform for information delivery and in some cases productivity. Some of these are actual bots (automated accounts) while others are just run by an organization — I’m lumping them into the [...]

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Twitter buys Summize

July 15th, 2008 · Comments · Twitter

Twitter’s search engine has always pretty much sucked. The functionality was put on the site in August 2007, but it only searches username, location, bio and URL — not the actual tweets in the stream.
Lots of folks out there have used the Twitter API to build their own search engine, the most popular of [...]

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Feed Reader: Inbox Zero

March 31st, 2008 · Comments · Productivity

Oh happy day!

As I’ve said before, I find it nearly impossible to keep up with the steady stream of information that gets pushed at me all sorts of ways. In the case of my RSS feeds, I’ve opted in, chosen to receive this deluge of content, and yet it still feels like a job to [...]

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