sacha chua living an awesome life

Whenever I meet geeks for the first time, I tend to run through a list
of tools I think they should try out. Here’s a partial list:

• *Blogs*: Not just for writing about what you had for lunch. Blogs
  

  are great for personal knowledge management (keep your own
  learning notebook). Run your own with WordPress or host it on
  WordPress.com, Blogger, or Schtuff.

• *Blog aggregator*: An absolute must if you read many blogs. I like Bloglines because of
  folders.
• *Wikis*: Excellent for quick notes and websites, particularly
  when people need to collaborate. Make one on Schtuff or
  set up your own with Pmwiki or Mediawiki.
• *Social bookmarking*: Not only is tagging a great way to organize your personal bookmarks, but
  you can discover interesting sites and people through social bookmarking. Most of the early adopters seem to be on del.icio.us, but I think Myweb 2.0 is more promising because it has better search. CiteULike is great for academics.

I’ve got more lists around here. For example, I go through a different set when talking to a Web 2.0 person…

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http://www.indexstock.com is an online stock photography service.
Check out
the guidelines. I think this is a good service for us to look into.
Besides, we need to tag photos and cross-reference them with model
releases anyway.

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Xdrive looks like a promising way to
transfer files between clients. It’s an additional USD 9.95 a month
for 5 GB. If I can find a cheaper mail/web host that still lets me do
PHP hacking, then we can move off ipowerweb next year.

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