Sam Kidd's thoughts on business

I know I'm way behind on jumping on to this one, but after reading about Twitter Phone on Pat Phelans blog I thought I had better get round to see what all the hype was regarding Twitter.

As you can see on the right hand side of the page I have my latest Twitter updates. From what little use I have given it so far I have to say I'm empressed.

You can follow my twitter updates at http://twitter.com/samkidd

Been up the walls here the last week so have not blogged in a while. I have been working with the guys (Dan and Topper) on Teamworkpm.net The product is looking really well now, the guys have done a great job in building this.

Teamwork PM is an online Project Management application that will help you work faster and be more productive in the work place.  We have been using it for a while now in Digital Crew and it's been bloody fantastic. (well I would say that I guess)

Before Teamwork we often forgot to pass on messages or simple tasks that we needed to do for our clients, or it just ending up taking too long to sort out problems because we would miss each other in the office or emails we sent to each other would just get buried in an our email inbox.

With Teamwork we have got rid of all these problems. We have a few more features that we are in the process of adding, and  we have have had a load of suggestions from people currently using Teamworkpm but It will always be an on going project as we improve things over time.

I would love to get some more feed back from people to see what othe feature people would like. There is a free edition use as well as the paid versions with have a few more features. Please give the free one a go and let me know what you guys think.

 

Just heard from Dan that the fantastic RSS reader, FeedDemon is now free. Thats right I said it FeedDemon is FREE!! I have been meaning to get FeedDemon for a while now but have just never got round to it.  I see on their site that they do a synchronization with the blackberry, so I will have to look at that. I have been using viigo on my Blackberry. I saw Dan was using on his iphone and I liked the way your feed were synced with your desktop.

The full press release can be found on the FeedDemon site here.

I posted a blog about this cool idea of Guinness's, which was to hunt online for their new advert to win some sort of a prize. Well that idea sounded great but I was reading a favourite blog on mine, adfreak  and he had the link to the ad on YouTube.

Well I'm to lazy to search the net for it, and for the others of you who are also to lazy to search for this 'great' new Guinness ad, here it is.








Guinness has said that no special effects were used in this ad, and that it cost a reported £10 million to make.  Honda’s ad does come to mind when you watch this.

Just been reading on Damien Mully's blog about some company stealing his blog posts for their site.
The other day I saw a banner on a blog I was reading, it was for a site called copyscape.

What the site does is it checks your site, and then search for copies of your page on the Web.
It's interesting to see what it comes up with.

I'm just sitting at home on this dull Sunday evening,(still trying to get over NZ losing) I'm at the moment going through blogs and trying to find interesting sites to pass the time . I just came across this site called dealdotcom. It's a interesting idea they have. They work by only have one product on their site for sale each day. The other kick is that you have no idea how many of these items they have to sell. So if your not fast, it could sell out. I have to say I kind of like this concept. 

Would be interested to know how this marketing/sales tactic is working out for them.
All the stuff they sell is products and services that help save you time and money when it comes to running your online business. There are loads of these types of site out there, but these guys definitely have an angle on doing it.

I want a fight!! well I do if I have a suit made from the stuff in this video on SkyNews.

What a savage product. It's called D3o.  D3o technology is a specially engineered material with intelligent molecules that flow with you as you move but on shock lock together to absorb impact energy.

This is a video from YouTube but the skyNews one gives you a better idea of how a fight in gear made from this would be a laugh.

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I have come across something that this country needs so badly, especially if you live in Cork. Cork has been painfully wet this winter.
I Don't know why an Irish person didn't come up with this, but some clever Dutch people did.

They are called SENZ Umbrellas and they are meant to be fanbloodytastic. They are aerodynamic in design and able to resist storms up to wind force 10! Which I'm told is bloody windy. WIth the Senz above your head gone are the days of your umbrella turning itself inside out and making you look like a tool in the street.

If this bloody weather keeps up I might well be placing an order.

You can check out their website here.

After looking through the site I was well impressed so I signed up to the site, which costs me $9.95 a month to read 31 papers.  Which works out cheaper than buying the paper down in the shop. It has been one of my better purchases online to date.  I now find myself reading the papers now more than I did before because I find it easier to go though them on the computer. 

Once I got into using Pressdisplay I was blown away by the features it has and just how well it works.

The screen shot above shows when you mouse over a story it highlights the heading rating how popular the story has been as well as giving you the option to have the story read out to you. You do this by clicking the red speaker. Its read out using Microsoft’s speech thing but it still pretty good. Also with one click it zooms you into the paper to make it easy to read then you can just hold down the mouse and glide around the page.  There is so much cool stuff in it I would recommend you just take a look at it. Try holding down the mouse and drawing a red circle. I was well impressed with what happens next.

Anyhow if you find it interesting let me know what you think.