DISQUS

daverad · 1 year ago

i was thinking of something really similar recently! i was talking to tito about it (i think..)

but basically i was shocked at how few people read Tech crunch, but i guess i have just surrounded myself with techies so i forgot most people have no idea whats going with new web services!

truth be told there is no need for people to know of every new tool or new site review, but it is important that users catch wind of a great product that could really improve their life or work flow.

it could be done through a video podcast. basically a site that takes the creme de le creme of new sites and shows computer savvy but not totally very techie people how to use them.

whatcha think?!?! anyone wanna start a videocast?

Rohan · 1 year ago

Great idea. In the meanwhile check out this soon to be launched productivity tool - http://www.statuswiz.com

tito · 1 year ago

http://www.bnet.com/2403-13241_23-66093.html?ta...

Great article on how to use Web 2.0

nico · 1 year ago

@Dave: Do you know the Common Crafts Show? They did something very similar, a series of short videocasts about web services in "plain english". http://commoncraft.com/show

Jessica · 1 year ago

Uh...Italy could use this big time, but there definitely is very high reluctance for some reason or other. When you try to offer new ideas or teach them about how to use new technology to either complete their work faster or be better informed, they regard it in a very defensive manner and somewhat act as though you are making things unnecessarily complicated. Forget RSS and networking, my colleagues need to take course 101 on What the Internet is. They are still so focused on pen and paper, which is such a pet peeve of mine! What sense can be made and knowledge passed down on a bunch of scribbled notes? Why do you have to waste 3 or 4 stacks of paper to print 46 packets of banal information which is most likely going to be sent right away to the bottom of a trash bin, when you can just as easily redirect someone to a site or email? I love when they print something out and then take it to photocopy. I'm like, you know you can send that directly from your computer to the photocopier to be printed right? Or you know the database you want me to develop of the list of companies in this magazine is already all published online, right? Hence, yes, I am simply copying and pasting the information from the site, rather than photocopying the magazine and typing in all the data. That's stupid. Uggh, Italia, how you cease to amaze.