• Web2.0 mashup matrix.  OK i don’t really know what web2.0 is and I sure don’t know that all the tools and services in this matrix make it any clearer – but this is a way cool matrix of tools and services.  Found elicit via this matrix
• PC Mag free software review.  Haven’t read yet but usually some gems in here
• Tried out copilot over the weekend.  OK if you absolutely have no other way to remotely debug a machine, I guess this is OK.  And I admire their pricing model, it aligns exactly with users – a daily fee that is not outrageous.  But this thing is so sssssslllllllooooowwwww.  Use the built-in RDP tools in XP if you can, they are much faster.
• Myprogs.net – tagging applied to software.  Great way to find yet more crap to install on your system.
• Thread on using greasemonkey to mine microformats from web pages.  I watch this with anticipation.  Would be highly useful to be able to suck phone nums, addresses, events, etc from web pages.
• Phil on some new ambitious ajax apps – zimbro and meeba.  I don’t think the vast majority of people here at ignition would mind if we moved to an ajax mail client.  Everyone already uses OWA from home/the road – people rarely VPN in to use email anymore.  Airset worth looking at too.
• Free terabyte mail service.  Wow.

Testing out yet another blog posting tool – elicit from bingobangosoftware.  A very unique take on blog posting – very focused on helping semipro bloggers manage their posting rate and their affiliate income.  Easy to add affiliate links, easy to manage your stream of posts thru a calendaring interface.  I don’t know yet if I like the tool but I admire the inventiveness.

UPDATE: OK on initial testing some goods and bads:

* Good: the scheduler worked perfectly. You can create posts for arbitrary times and they will be posted at that time. I realize there are many other tools to do this, but the outlook-like calendar interface is very nice. * So-so: doesn’t respect mt text processing plugins like textile 2 – but has a full wysiwyg editor and html editor so maybe that is ok * Bad: doesn’t seem to post keywords correctly. Wraps the entry in tags. and most strangely, enters the post body in both the entry body and extended entry fields – not helpful!!

* via jkontherun. print your own graph paper. Nice for generating that odd piece of graph paper. * via tipmonkies, numsum – a hosted spreadsheet. * zipcode overlay mashup. Very handy.

I’m not a huge user of USB keys tho a lot of people are – lots of excitement about these keys evolving to contain your entire personalized computing environment.

I’d be more compelled to try using a key this way if a key was integrated into something I already have to carry – my blackberry/cellphone, my car key fob, my ipod.

Haven’t read much recently due to work, Halloween, football – but “The Kite Runner”:amazon grabbed me and held on.  Great great story with classic themes.  And great for a US citizen to read – really humanizes people in a part of the world that we need to learn more about.

* Jason on the future of the online job market. Right or wrong, it is smart to have some view of the future of your market. * Mark Maunder, another jobster blogger * Livemarks from Sourcelabs’ Alex Bosworth. Great great view of what content people are tagging. A great way to stay on top of hot content. * Phil keeps on expanding Berry 411 – now restaurant referals. Seems like the Judy’s Book folks should collaborate with Phil. * Also Phil has yoked Berry 411 to the google mobile reformatter. Amazing how Phil is making Berry 411 the best browser for the blackberry – all in his spare time. * johnza’s analysis of newsgator – newsgator seems to be doing a great job – great investment by brad feld * Hooper playing coy about MVNO investment.

Deployed all my audio systems this weekend – the 4 speaker thunder and lightning system near the door way, the greetings/music systems at each driveway entrance, the graveyard annex system, and the talking tree with voice mod box.  Tested all, sound all ok.

Deployed fog tubing as well.  Didn’t test fogger but it is ready to test tonight perhaps.

Next up – lighting and control cabling deployment.  By this weekend should have all the infrastructure deployed.

Good links from MOM (membership reqd)on hacking inexpensive motion sensors:

* How-to from Cowlacious (pdf) * Almost as good and not pdf – hacking a motion sensor * And from hauntedillinois

Truly amazing to see the pace at which 260 goats can clear an area of blackberry bushes.

* It’s taken me a while to try Dave’s OPML editor, but this enthusiastic article got me off my ass.  I really want to love this as I am an outlining kind of guy.  But a) I use 5-6 PCs regularly and hate having to install this on all of them, why isn’t it just a website?  b) I really wish it would sync with my bberry.  c) the default web rendering of outlines looks pretty plain (at least in the techcrunch example).  * As Ed Bott says, Exact Audio Copy is a great way to get error-free CD rips. * Newsgator empire keeps growing with acquisition of netnewswire.  Man these guys seem to be building an interesting and deep company.  Love newsgator. * Gadgetopia found this claim about Windows Vista boot times.  Man I hope this is true and really works.  I gave up on suspend and hibernate long ago because too many devices just didn’t deal well with.  Of course I rarely turn my PCs off now…

One of our earliest investments, RLX, was purchased by HP.  Congrats guys!  This article is a little critical of the company, no surprise, theregister is generally pretty snarky.  But they give credit where credit is due – “RLX pioneered the blade server market, offering compact systems well before any of the Tier 1 vendors.”  It was great to be involved with these guys.

Hey check out the contest at fanblogs. Free is always good, and who doesn’t want to read more about OSU?

Man a flood of these – Writely (works well for me), Jotlive, zohowriter, writeboard. Seems like the fullscale assault on ms-office scenarios is launching. Sure, office apps do like a kajillion more things, but I don’t need all that, and the value of net-based storage and mobility outweighs it all. Techcrunch and web2.0central are great places to track these apps.

Ha ha – a comparison of VC behaviour with mental disorders.

Good article about Teach for America in nyt this weekend. I didn’t know anything about the program.

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates of all academic majors who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools, and become lifelong leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Our mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting some of our nation’s most promising future leaders in the effort.

Inspiring.