Yahoo! Sports was recently updated with an all-new design, following along with updates to other major sections of the site. There has been a lot of vocal feedback – common whenever a popular site has any design changes – but I’m warming up to it. I only have one complaint: the site doesn’t work correctly on Nexus 7 tablets.
Zapier is an interesting service I’ve been playing with lately. It’s somewhat similar to IFTTT, but with more of a business focus. In their words: Zapier enables you to automate tasks between other online services (services like Salesforce, Basecamp, Gmail, and 224 more). Imagine capturing Wufoo form leads automatically into Salesforce or displaying new Paypal sales in your Campfire team chat room. Zapier lets you automate all these simple tasks and get back to real work. One recent touch that was nice – they send periodic updates with new actions available in their services. The email updates are focused for…
File hosting services like Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive, and Box all have very generous free storage levels (2 GB and up). Even so, it’s easy to quickly reach the free limit, especially as you start backing up photos, movies, and other large files. If you’re getting close to your service’s free limit, here’s a solution for quickly finding the largest of your files, so you can clean them out or back up elsewhere. This works best when you’ve set up your service to sync everything to your local Mac or Windows computer. In my case I’m using Dropbox which defaults…
One month ago I launched Tweetfave – my new service which improves the usefulness of Twitter favorites. After using Tweetfave myself for so long, it’s been exciting to open it up for others, and to see where it goes. Here’s a quick look at some numbers since the launch 30 days ago…
Here’s a brief history of Tweetfave – my new free service that automatically emails your Twitter favorites to your inbox.
This project started as one of those “wouldn’t it be useful if…” projects, as an addition to Twitter. I was already using the Twitter favorite feature to bookmark tweets and links to read later, and wanted a way to automatically receive those (short of going to my profile page and viewing my own favorites). Combine that with an interest in learning the Twitter API, and the project was underway.
As I started writing this, I was a bit surprised as to just how long I’ve been working on this. Here’s the history timeline I came up with…