http://www.coolnerd.net Cool technology for cool people from Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:28:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Earlier this year my wife and I decided we would organize a monthly budget into a Google spreadsheet so we could both collaborate and make sure we stayed within our means. This worked for about 3 months because of the pain it was to manually review our monthly transactions and ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/09/05/get-your-budget-into-mint-condition/ With the advent of this summer I have several hikes and a high adventure backpacking trip to look forward to. My first objective has been to get in shape and My Fitness Partner and a great workout program from Outside.com my co-worker Glen (check out his site: glenerd.com) recommended have ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/06/13/backpackercom-adventure-planner/ The MadeBig Game Arena just recently launched barely a month ago within the MadeBig social network and it has been gaining a lot of traction with it's current users and new users. The unique thing with the MadeBig Game Arena is that is ties into the MadeBig virtual economy so ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/06/11/casual-games-madebig-game-arena/ One big piece of news from today is the deal between Plaxo and Comcast - yep - another big merger. The purchase price is between $150 and $170 million. All in all I think this is a great move for Plaxo, even though they originally wanted $250 million. Plaxo has ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/05/15/plaxo-comcast-deal/ For all you fitness buffs out there - here is a site that will help you all the way to cutting the flab, ripping the abs, and getting that much desired beach bod you have been aspiring for. This is one site that I wanted to use for a few ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/05/15/my-fitness-partner/ This is one of the coolest applications I have used in the past while - Jott, a very simple, user-friendly voice to text website. Using Jott I can call the Jott number and it will ask me "Who do you want to Jott" - I say the name of one ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/04/17/jott-convert-your-voice-into-emails-text-messages-reminders-lists-and-appointments/ Recently I came across one of the sweetest online tools for screen capture and screen video casting - it's called Jing. This amazing little utility, built by TechSmith, makes it easy to capture the screen image, but the video screen recording is what I really keyed in on as a ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/03/03/jing/ The other day I was stumbling around and I came across this site with some great quotes about Product Development. One of my favorites from this list is from Seth Godin: "People don't steal ideas. Ideas are cheap. Implementation makes the difference." One thing that is crucial for Product Managers ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/01/28/product-dev-quotes/ As a product manager I have been seeing more and more variance between this role and what a project manager is supposed to operate as. I'll admit that until recently I saw very little difference between the project manager and a product manager. Was I ever wrong! ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2008/01/02/product-management/ Okay I know this is the band wagon, and this is all yesterdays news, but I couldn't help blogging about Google's Open Social.  I know it's been awhile since I have posted anything new, but I have been swamped with launching a new platform.  ZDnet's Robin Harris hits on an ... http://www.coolnerd.net/2007/11/06/open-social/