Best Online Productivity Tools for 2012. Sharebar There are so many online services, platforms, applications and tools, it can be difficult to wade through it all. So I’ve updated an older list of productivity tools for the coming year. These are some of the best tools I use or found through research and recommendations. Tools that help us become more efficient, organized and productive are important. Why Online? When all of your important stuff is available online, you can access it from anywhere. With most of these tools you don’t have to download or install anything. Backing up your work online keeps you productive because they say to save everything in three places. Mozy is often recommended as the backup tool of choice. Dropbox has an understated and simply intuitive interface.
Bookmarking and clipping the web keep you productive because you don’t have to do a deep search all around the web for that article you saw two months ago. When Delicious was ditched by Yahoo and bought by another company, some things changed. Infographics. Latest Product News | Citrix Online. Citrix Acquires Podio Collaborative Work Platform Empowers Teams to Move from Simply Talking about Work to Getting It Done. Podio to debut at Citrix Synergy in San Francisco, May 9–11. Santa Clara, Calif. — April 11, 2012 — Citrix today announced it has completed the acquisition of Podio, an innovative, privately held company that offers a collaborative work platform which supports people and teams getting work done the way they want in a social setting. Podio’s unique apps concept adds structure and activity streams to any type of work and collaboration with teams, clients, in projects, and within functions such as sales, recruiting, marketing or any other area of business.
A cloud service, Podio unifies the content, traditional business applications, and new mobile apps, as well as the real-time and asynchronous communications required to work in the post PC era. Modern Work Styles Need Social Team Collaboration Supporting the Way Teams Want to Work Quotes Related Links Availability. Trello. The Future of Social Media. Recently we witnessed two major turning points in the world of Social Media. The first is the shift towards image based communications, and the second is Facebook’s IPO. The signs suggest bad things to come as corporations race to our wallets before our naivity wears off. Once again privacy issues are about to take centre stage.
The internet, once a sunny park of freedom is evolving into a controlled machine of excess as governments and corporations clamour for control. For Marketers, the opportunities lie in the recent shift towards image based communications in social media. The value for Facebook users is the ability to socialize online. So what is the enticement of images over other forms of communications such as text or motion?
So what does this mean for the future of Social Media? Currently rated 4.0 by 1 people Brent Coker Future Social Media. Insiders Tell The Story Of LinkedIn's Stunning Success. LinkedIn's startup story: Connecting the business world - Jun. 2, 2009. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (CNNMoney.com) -- In Silicon Valley, it's all about knowing the right people. Reid Hoffman knows a little something about that. Hoffman, 41, started LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals. Its 41 million members include people from more than 200 countries and executives from every Fortune 500 company.
Hoffman founded LinkedIn in late 2002. From the beginning, Hoffman, a Stanford graduate, understood the importance of building and leveraging his network. Hoffman recently sat down with CNNMoney.com to discuss his entrepreneurial journey. It was the beginning of the online revolution, in 1993. Studying at Oxford, I realized I wanted to have a much broader relevance in people's lives. I networked my way to a couple of different venture capitalists. So then I networked my way to a job at Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500). I watched the whole online market heating up. We raised money from some very good venture capitalists.
Taking the plunge Growing pains. Y Combinator FAQ. Frequently Asked Questions What Happens at Y Combinator? This. How can we get funding for our startup? Apply online for our next funding cycle. We fund startups twice a year. When will the application form for the next cycle be online? Usually at least a few months before the deadline, which is usually in October for winter batches and March for summer batches. We've already been working on our startup for a while. We've funded a lot of startups like that. Don't incorporate, though, if you can avoid it. We've already taken some funding. Sure. We don't want funding, but will you give us advice? Unfortunately we can't. Can you recommend other investors who might be interested in our idea? When you refer someone to an investor, you're also recommending them, and you can't recommend people you don't know.
How much do you invest? Usually $11,000 + $3000 per founder. What is the valuation cap on the convertible notes? They're uncapped. What does Y Combinator get out of this? Not for us. Sorry, no. Ok. Y Combinator Funding Application. Y Combinator Funding ApplicationSummer 2007Application deadline: 12 midnight (PST) April 2, 2007. Please try to answer each question in less than 120 words. We look at online demos only for the most promising applications, so don't skimp on the application because you're relying on a good demo. We don't make any formal promise about secrecy, but we don't plan to let anyone outside Y Combinator see these applications, including other startups we fund. We recommend you save regularly by clicking on the update button at the bottom of this page. . # Username: dhouston # Company name: Dropbox # Company url, if any: # Phone number (preferably cell): (redacted) # Usernames of all founders, separated by spaces. There are lots of interesting possible features.
. # For each founder, please list: YC username; name; age; year, school, degree, and subject for each degree; email address; personal url (if any); and present employer and title (if any) . # How will you make money? Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup. Pearltrees. Pearltrees refers to itself as "a place for your interests".[8] Functionally the product is a visual and collaborative curation tool[9][10][11][12] that allows users to organize, explore and share any URL they find online as well as to upload personal photos, files and notes.[13] The product features a unique visual interface[14][15] that allows users to drag and organize collected URLs, and other digital objects.[16] that themselves can be further organized into collections and sub-collections,[17] (URLs).
Users of the product can also engage in social/collaborative curation using a feature called Pearltrees Teams.[18] Pearltrees was founded by Patrice Lamothe, CEO,[22] Alain Cohen, CTO,[23] Nicolas Cynober, Technical Director,[24] Samuel Tissier, Ergonomy/UI[25] and Francois Rocaboy, CMO.[26] History[edit] Development of Pearltrees began in 2007.
In July 2012 Pearltrees launched their iPhone app. Pearltrees introduced Pearltrees 2.0 on May 22nd, 2014. Usage[edit] Privacy[edit] PearlTrees - A Way To Curate Your Web. Posted by Tom Foremski - March 5, 2010 I first met Patrice Lamothe, co-founder of PearlTrees in November and became fascinated with the PearlTrees service because of the many ways it can be used, and because it is an example of a media technology that is closely integrated into the way people are using the web. Since then, I've played around with PearlTrees and I can see lots of interesting uses for this technology, and its potential in creating a giant, curated web, one which goes beyond simple search, and beyond social tagging as in Delicious.
And I'm excited now to be working with PearlTrees, as an advisor, in helping this startup grow to the next level. I'm very fortunate to that I can work with companies that interest me anyway, rather than having to work with companies that don't. [Full Disclosure: This is part of my media/business strategy consulting services that help finance my journalism on SVW. Tweet this story Follow @tomforemski. Interview with Patrice Lamothe – founder and CEO of Pearltrees – the human-powered interest network « en-tech. With 5 Million More Euros in the Bank, Pearltrees Gets Ready to Scale and Start Monetizing. The Paris-based social curation platform Pearltrees just announced that it has raised a Series B round of 5 million Euros (about $6.62 million USD). The money is coming from Group Accueil, which had also invested in the service’s previous round. In total, Pearltrees has now raised 8.5 million Euros. The company, which launched its first alpha almost 3 years ago, aims to use this money to scale its product and – maybe even more importantly – implement a freemium business model for its service.
The company did not publicly discuss what exactly this freemium model will look like. Pearltrees is probably best known for its highly visual interface to its collaborative curation service. Some of the most interesting technology the team has developed, however, actually powers the discovery mechanism that is slowly becoming a more important part of the user experience (especially in Pearltrees’ recently released iPad app). Pearltrees Comes To The iPhone, Goes Beyond Bookmarking And Adds Photos, Notes, Offline Mode.