Contraceptive or aggregator?
Is profilactic the ultimate social software site aggregator? Even though its name sounds like a contraceptive.
Heres my first attempt at aggregation:-
Category: Products
MegaPhone & iPhone
MegaPhone from Ecamm networks is a very neat little application for the Mac and iPhone. You can now store and read all yout sms texts on the MAC as well as storing all your call data. A big plus for us ex Treo users is that at last you can store, create and add memo’s (notes) on the iPhone. Another useful facility is that you can use the iPhone as a memory stick. (As long as you have megaphone on all your computers).
On the screenshot you can see that I have kept 544 text messages since I got the phone on the 10th Nov 2007.
A very handy bit of software for a tenner.
This mornings webfinds
A couple of good sites cropped up in my google reader this morning.
Share a holic
Shareaholic is a firefox extension that makes it easy to see if the website you are on has been social bookmarked eg Digg and more importantly for me makes it easy to twitter to your friends about the site.
Here you can see it installed in my firefox, it adds a green RSS symbol to the address bar.
and produces a twitter like this:-
GeoffJones Reading: “Shareaholic – The browser add-on extension to share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly” (http://tinyurl.com/33q9lo)
Web hot or not
The other site is webhotornot a bit of fun from Martin Varsavasky
(one of my all time favourite speakers) . its still new so not many sites to rate as yet. I added some of my protégé bloggers , Ellee, Sally, Philip, Felicity so maybe they will pop up later today 🙂
And of cause i shared it with shareaholic…
Now its time to hit the slopes in Les Gets, Its so cool having broadband in my apartment here.
In and out of the gutter.
Whilst walking to the bank, to pay in my Premium Bond winnings :-), I came across Andy & Dave cleaning gutters on the Cambridge Apartments building using an innovative heavy duty vacuum cleaner, long pipe and a camera.
Pretty neat idea, especially in these health and safety times we live in, where any work on a ladder is frowned upon.
Interesting business promotion tool using word of mouth method to spread the idea – “If you ask for 10 postcards and deliver them to your neighbours. If 2 bookings are made then your gutters are cleaned for free.” Not sure how this idea works if I direct people to their, rather annoying, website!
Apparently it cost between £30 and £40 for an average house and you can call 0800 5677800 to get in touch with them.
The idea is pretty new as you can see from the jury rig of the camera to the pipe, so they need the business! I suggested that the guy with the pipe should be using video goggles. to make it less tiring.
It all bought back memories of my early days working with Pete Lorenz of Olympus Industrial on optical remote inspection 🙂 Except then they were wanting to look into vast chemical tanks and nuclear reactors.