Have your ever found that communicating with distant partners or collaborators involve a lot of window changes : email, phone conversation, chat… Protonotes is a hosted service that aims to centralize all conversations to a web page, can be either a web design prototype or the beginning of your own extranet. Protonotes works very simply by the inclusion of a javascript that displays a control bar on top of your web page, and allows the display of yellow notes all over the place. nice and simple, doesnot require login or installation : might be a good idea to implement password protected notes for privacy - or moderation !! Link : protonotes

What I like about gmail is not its interface : while it’s certainly one of the most accessible web based mail interface, it lacks powerful features from the desktop world. But we don’t like it only for its interface, we also like the fact that it kills spams very efficiently. Spam is the issue, and that’s where OtherInbox, Austin-based start-up and web service founded by serial entrepreneur and email-marketing guru Joshua Baer, fires. OtherInbox is described as  the cure for email overload - it provides consumers with a free email account that automatically organizes newsletters, social networking updates, coupons and receipts from online purchases so that its easy to find the most interesting things and ignore the rest. OtherInbox shows the consumer who is really responsible for sending them spam and gives them a powerful new Block button to stop it once and for all. OtherInbox launched publicly in September 2008 at TechCrunch50. Served by Ruby On Rails,  powered by sproutcore, otherinbox has gone through a new step in the world of free web based mail readers. Thinking of Migrating ?

Ridiculously easy  time management & analytics : unlike stated by the name it wears, rescue time does not only manage timesheets. This free signup online service can also easily host project management with serious analytics letting you know instantly where you stand in terms of personal and group time management. Working without require you to tell what you’re doing on your PC, rescue time will record which application you’re using on your desktop and render the time spent according to keyword you’ve defined : “RescueTime really begins to sing once you’ve tagged the apps that you use most often. The tagging interface is designed to allow you to quickly label your untagged apps with the tags that make the most sense to you. We’ve found that you only need to tag a few dozen most-often-used apps to get exceptional value out of RescueTime”.

http://www.rescuetime.com/

Cushy CMS, hosted Content Managemant platform, has invented an efficient concept : just modify the HTML code of your pages by addinc the “cushycms” class attribute to HTML elements, and these elements will be made editable via Cushy CMS’ interface. Technically, CushyCMs analyses your page, grabs appropriate elements and builds an editor within its interface. It then modifies the HTML code of the pages and transfers them to your host via FTP. Simple and efficient. http://www.cushycms.com/

There is a lot to say about the knowledge of making forms for the internet : we have recently covered form making interfaces on applications such as Wordpress and Silverstripe, and this article focuses on JOTFORM and other hosted web service that let its registered users build form, and save them as HTML to be displayed on any website, and processed by a distant platform hosted by the service. Submission can then be sent by email or kept on server databases for access from registered user account. While JOTFORM seems relatively simple compared to competitor FormAssembly’s conditional multiple page infrastructure, it hosts interesting features such as payment gateway processing.

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