The Second Cup: 20 Simple Tools

Posted by Meghann Olshefski
Fri, 2009-08-07 09:44

20 Simple Productivity Tools for Bloggers

You don’t have to subscribe to the cult of GTD, shave your head and
donate all your possessions to David Allen to improve your blogging
workflow.

Even taking a small amount of time to add some new
discoveries to your toolkit now and then can reap long-lasting
benefits. Take a look at this list of apps, extensions and other tools
that aim to help you save time as a web writer...

When Tactics Drown Out Strategy

New media creates a blizzard of tactical opportunities for marketers, and many of them cost nothing but time, which means you don't need as much approval and support to launch them.

As a result, marketers are like kids at Rita's candy shoppe, gazing at all the pretty opportunities...

Facebook's Open Stream API Grows Stronger

This afternoon Facebook’s Open Stream API, which launched in late April, will be getting a few new additions that make the API significantly more robust and easier for developers to integrate.

One feature that will be familiar to Twitter and FriendFeed users is a new ‘via’ attribution, pointing out to your friends how you submitted your latest update. This can add to the virality of applications like Seesmic and web services like Yelp — if you start seeing that many of your friends are using a certain app, you’re probably more likely to check it out for yourself. Before now Facebook had shown the icon of whatever application or site was posting to your profile, but it didn’t actually name it...