Ideas Notebook

After reading Fred’s post about the conversations that arise from blog posts, I thought of an useful tool for bloggers. There even might be one already for this.

Interested readers discuss popular posts in numerous places like Twitter, Facebook, HackerNews or Digg. A blog service could reunite those conversations back to the blog page. The author would follow everything in a single place, and future readers could enjoy the larger context. This could be a new feature for Disqus, or another commenting system. I would use it in my blogs, and so would other bloggers.

http://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/893095678/reason-to-not-not-do-a-startup-the-idea

There are a lot of project management web applications out there. But when I wanted a simple real-time solution for showing project status to a client, none of them fit. In the end, I used a shared Google Docs spreadsheet.

On most freelance projects there’s only a list of tasks to update. In software related projects, there may be issues reported by the client, but not much more. Overall, it’s a very small set of information that fits perfectly on a single page.

So how about a service that creates and maintains simple project status page like this one:

Integrate it with a time tracking tool and everything is updated automatically. That would keep any client happy.

Scott Adams in God’s Debris