Chris Mullins presents a great startup tool kit. I’ve seen most of these before, but there were a few new ones for me, and it’s nice to have it all in one place.

(via Startup Fever, another new to me resource)

Subscribed to both.

I was looking through my Bloglines subscriptions this morning, trying to prune back inactive blogs and seeing what kind of subscriber counts certain blogs had. It’s interesting that Business Week’s Well Spent blog only had 5 subscribers (Granted there are 8 available feeds for this blog, so there may be more subscribers across the different feeds. But, why on earth do you need 8 feed URIs?). So, I went to the site and see that Well Spent is not in the list of blogs anymore. I wonder what happened? Is it dead? Is the pf blogosphere not attractive enough for them? Are the citizen pf bloggers doing a better job?

For most of my life, prior to this thing they call the web, sports was my #1 passion. My goal was to play pro baseball. That didn’t quite work out and I only made it as far as small college. But, it’s always fun to read some great sports stories and take your mind off everyday life. I just came across a couple good ones by Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball:

Steve Rubel adds his thoughts on Windows Live Favorites. I echo these criticisms along with my earlier post.

I ended up trying Favorites out just for grins. Man, what a pain. First I had to install the MSN toolbar (another disappointing MS tool) and jump through some other hoops. Then, to use it, you have to keep an explorer bar open, which I don’t like doing. Then you have competing favorites tools (builtin and Windows Live) that aren’t connected at all, which is kind of weird. All in all, a frustrating experience and one I wouldn’t recommend to anyone else.

I’ve been reading and hearing great things about Pandora. One co-worker referred to it as “ear crack” and I can definitely see why. It’s fun to plugin you’re favorite artists and songs and see what’s related. A nice legal way to listen to music.

It snowed here a bit in Portland yesterday, so attendance is pretty light at work, and it feels pretty relaxed. But, it seems things are falling apart all over the place on the web. TypePad is having all sorts of problems lately, Del.icio.us is having issues, and Bloglines is moving and their servers are down for a few hours. It makes it really hard to slack when your favorite tools are offline.

As we reach the end of the year, many people are coming out with top 10 lists for this and that. It was exciting to see this week that NetworthIQ was included as #6 in the list of Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005. This article made the Digg home page and the del.icio.us/popular page, resulting in a surge of traffic and registrations at the site.

In the spirit of trying to be more positive about Microsoft on this site, I came across this list of “cool” .Net products/companies by Dan’l Lewin (via <a href="Scoble). I’ve only heard of a couple of them, but will be checking the others out. There’s also an intersting list of reasons for choosing .Net at the end of the article. I’m sure the open source crowd will have something to say about that.

This is a reference post for wikis (and other collaboration tools) that I need to check out:

• Basecamp (already using)
• Confluence
• Central Desktop
• Jotspot [Hosted]
• Social Text [Hosted]
• Stikipad [Hosted]
• WikiSpaces [Hosted]
• PBwiki [Hosted]
• Zimbra
• Perspective [.Net]
• FlexWiki [.Net]
• MediaWiki [PHP]
• DokuWiki [PHP]
• TikiWiki [PHP]
• PmWiki [PHP]
• Twiki [Perl]
• Kwiki [Perl]
• trac [Python]
• Zwiki [Python]

Update:

WikiMatrix looks at these too.

This is a reference post for me so that I can keep track of online calendar tools I’m interested in looking at.

• Kiko
• CalendarHub
• Planzo
• Hula
• Trumba
• Zimbra
• AirSet
• 30 boxes
• HipCal
• SpongeCell

Update

TechCrunch takes a look at these too.

Final Update

Not much need for this list anymore.  Google Calendar wins.  I generally root for the small guy, but it just didn’t work out this time.