Use Multiple Online Cloud Storage Services for Free and Organized Backup. Stop Organizing Your E-mail, Says Study - Technology Review (Build 20110413222027) If you’re the type to meticulously file your emails in various folders in your client, stop, says a new study from IBM Research. By analyzing 345 users’ 85,000 episodes of digging through old emails in search of the one they needed, researchers discovered that those who did no email organizing at all found them faster than those who filed them in folders. By using search, the non-organizers were able to find the email they needed just as easily as filers. They also didn’t have to spend any time filing email in folders, putting them ahead overall. Other results from the study (pdf) pointed to ways in which existing email clients might be improved. For example, scrolling was a big part of how users found emails, even after they searched for them, yet scrolling isn’t supported by gmail, which uses pagination instead.
The study also suggested that if you want to keep your (and others’) email inboxes tidy, you should do everything you can to keep your conversations in existing threads.
Program | FutureMidwest Conference. Exploring the 'Net and Star Trek with Pearltrees. Over the past few days, you may have noticed that we've embedded a new tool known as Pearltrees in certain articles on TG Daily. As you can see, Pearltrees embeds a significant amount of supplemental information related to a post in a way that is easy to navigate, while giving you a chance to preview content before you even click a link. There's a lot more to Pearltrees, though. During a recent interview, the company told us they are engaged in building an expanding a comprehensive "social curation" community. What does this mean for you? Well, you can "team-up" with people who share your interests to curate a topic, thereby providing improved context, more depth and high-quality information. "Obviously, it would be pretty difficult to find all of this content in any reasonable amount of time using Google or another search tool," Pearltrees rep Oliver Starr told TG Daily.
To collaborate on a topic, simply click the "team-up" button in an embedded pearltree, like the Star Trek one above. Cometa and Renegade - "Al Son De Los Cueros" Holykaw.alltop. Amazing roots - Los Angeles, CA - March 27, 2011 - owstarr. 110311_TUNAMI.avi. A New Web Paradigm: Pearltrees. Oliver Starr's answer to What are the best curatiom tools for journalists? Storify? Scoop.it? A.N.Other.
GM extends OnStar smartphone control to 14 more vehicles. Favorite toy? - Oakland, CA - March 28, 2011 - owstarr. The NY Times Online Paywall Finally Goes Live. After 14 months in development, long-awaited “metered” model launches The New York Times' much-hyped, feverishly-anticipated online paywall went live on Monday at 2:00 p.m. (ET), as scheduled. And so far, the world has not fallen off its axis. The Times' long-term plan is to charge "heavy" users of the site between $15 and $35 per month for digital subscriptions to access the site, but the paper is offering all subscriptions plans for 99-cents each for four-week trials as part of the launch.
To mark this historic occasion, here are links to most of The Wrap's articles on the Times' paywall — as well as other approaches to paid content online. >> New York Times to Unveil Online Paywall in the Afternoon >> Times: Paywall Freeloaders Will Be 'Mostly High School Kids,' Unemployed >> How Much Money Can the Times Make From its Paywall? >> New York Times to Launch Online Paywall on March 28 >> Times Paywall Enters 'Final Testing Phase,' Will 'Launch Shortly' >> NYT Co.
So many toys to choose from - Oakland, CA - March 28, 2011 - owstarr. Photo : yfrog.com/h2pd3eqj - Shared by OWStarr. Live stream of Web 2.0 Expo. Holykaw.alltop. Brilliant ideas strike people all the time. Perhaps you’ve been inspired at some point with the notion for an innovative product or process. But it takes more than just some clever firing of the brain circuits to turn an invention idea into a working, tangible product. And then it takes even more work to develop it into a mass-market phenomenon This article offers a brief look at the labor-intensive, potentially lucrative process of bringing an invention to market. Full article at HowStuffWorks.com. Total aggregation of HowStuffWorks.com. Photo credit: Fotolia. Getting Things Done. Personal productivity system and 2001 book The GTD method rests on the idea of moving all items of interest, relevant information, issues, tasks and projects out of one's mind by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items with known time limits.
[b][c] This allows one's attention to focus on taking action on each task listed in an external record, instead of recalling them intuitively.[5] First published in 2001,[4] a revised edition of the book was released in 2015 to reflect the changes in information technology during the preceding decade.[1] Themes[edit] Allen first demonstrates stress reduction from the method with the following exercise, centered on a task that has an unclear outcome or whose next action is not defined. The most annoying, distracting, or interesting task is chosen, and defined as an "incomplete". An inboxA trash canA filing system for reference materialSeveral lists (detailed below)A calendar (either a paper-based or digital calendar) David Allen, Getting Things Done® and GTD®
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (9780142000281): David Allen. David Allen: Getting Things Done. David Allen On "Getting Things Done"
GTD Resources. Lifehacks 1. Gtd_steps.