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Rescue Time is great for efficiency and productivity

Jamie Huskisson — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:00:39 +0000

After seeing Rescue Time I had to give it a go and see what came out of it. The web app allows you to track your time spent across various applications and sites etc. and gives you your productivity and efficiency scores based on that activity. You set productivity on a scale of +2 to -2 in terms of points for each website and application you’re using. You can also group activity by tags and groups under groups that are pre-set or that you create yourself. Textmate for example is automatically under ‘Dev Tools’, as is Transmit. As I’m a…

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A few Basecamp gripes

Jamie Huskisson — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:57:07 +0000

I’ve been using Basecamp a lot to organise all the projects across Rolled At and here are a few of my gripes with the web app. Don’t get me wrong – it’s close to perfect, but there are things that bug me about it. 1. Remember me! Why doesn’t it forward me from the log-in form if I’m already logged in? 2. Backpack has a better calendar I want to be able to set events, not milestones. I don’t want to have to tick off a milestone when staff member X comes back from holiday – it should just happen.…

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Future of web apps feed has last years Kevin Rose

Jamie Huskisson — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:27:52 +0000

The future of web apps podcast/RSS feed actually has last years presentation by Kevin Rose. It’s the 2006 presentation, not the 2007 presentation. Maybe if they made it possible to actually report bugs like this… maybe I’d be able to report it. What crafty campaigns can we come up with in order to bring this bug to light for the Carson family? p.s. There’s a reason why the people who had ten minutes only had ten minutes – they aren’t very good presenters, and seemingly lack passion when talking about their product. (They all sound like sales pitches)

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Best presentation I’ve seen yet

Jamie Huskisson — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:05:56 +0000

Saw this one over at Guy Kawasaki’s blog this morning and loved it. Much better than the normal business lecture and simply flowed awesomeness all the way through. I particularly liked how they measure their success in awesomeness. If you want a video about the passion of making ‘Web Apps’ instead of the business of it, this one is for you:

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Xing needs to concentrate on features rather than press releases

Jamie Huskisson — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:55:45 +0000

I don’t rant often, but this one annoys the heck out of me. *Start rant* Xing (formally openBC – a much better name) is really starting to annoy me. And it’s not down to their annoying use of the word ‘articles’ instead of ‘threads’ or ‘posts’ on their discussion groups. Or the ridiculous amount of non-English content that gets into my view of the site even though I’ve chosen not to view anything other than English content. No ladies and gentlemen I have a far bigger beef with ‘Xing’ – they have no RSS feeds. Don’t get me wrong.. they…

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