David lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Gelf Magazine. He also freelances for several magazines including Wired and Business 2.0. He's always on the lookout for new ideas about how to make life at work more efficient, more productive, and more fun. Please feel free to send...
Now that you've got an RSS reader (right?), you need to make sure that it doesn't become another email-esque albatross that you check way too often and spend way too much time going through. That doesn't necessarily mean, though, that you need to cut down on the number of feeds...
What happens when you Google yourself? If you've got a popular name, any pertinent results are usually washed out by waves of news about the serial killers, athletes, and CEOs who share your name. If you don't have one, then the results will probably be a mismash of labeled photos,...
I used to think that LinkedIn requests were obnoxious. I felt like I was being roped into a social network that, unlike Friendster, has been scrubbed free of interestingness and instead has a glossy PR sheen. But as a business professional, it's become unavoidable; not having a LinkedIn profile is...
Or if you don't use one yet, get one now. Really Simple Syndication is a really simple way to manage the articles, blog posts, and web searches that you want to keep up with—without actually having to take the time to go to each site. Web-based Bloglines has treated me...
Okay, so maybe crowdsourcing isnt the best term for what Im describing in this post; in fact, all Im actually doing is pointing you to Amazons best-selling office electronics products. But crowdsourcing is the business model in which amateurs use their spare time to solve problems, and, by...
Economy class seating on airplanes is bad enough; the last thing you want is to be shuttled into a particularly terrible seat that doesnt recline, has no tray table, or just plain stinks. Heres how one disgruntled customer described his seat next to the lavatory on one plane...
Every week, Im planning to dig up a site or two that features great gear for business people. Ill try to focus on sites that a) test the products they flog or b) offer great deals. Ill try not to get too caught up in fanboy promotions, and...
After PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wrote a screed about the evils of using AutoReply, the folks over at LifeHacker set up a poll asking readers whether they used the feature when they were away on vacation or otherwise unable...
The idea of Farecast.com used to work much better for me than the actual site. For the uninitiated, Farecast serves up the current lowest prices for specific flights and a prediction complete with a percent confidence rating about whether the current price will rise or fall in the future. (It...
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