I spend a fair amount of time on line, browsing the news, and reading various blogs. Also, being an Entrecarder, I come across a lot of great blogs every day, which I would love to read and digg.

That said, I just cannot dedicate enough quality time during the day to read these articles. I usually send them to my Google Reader, to further consideration at a quieter time.

Problem is I do not have much free time indeed, and when I finally manage to access my Greader, I am frustrated to find a whole lot of posts there, way too many for me to catch up.

I just found an interesting post called “10 scripts to muscle up your Google Reader”, which provides great tips on how to optimize the use of Google Reader. My favorite is the “Greader to Twitter”, a feature that sends a reader post to twitter.

A must read for those of us who spend a lot of time reading on the Internet, a population that includes the Entrecarders.

Technical | 3 Comments »

I am trying to keep as little private data as possible on my computer. I managed to convince myself that they are much safer on a secure server than on my personal computer, which can be stolen or crash at any time.

I have therefore been contemplating for a while going for an online version of Quicken to manage my personal expenses.

So I was delighted to listen to this interview of Marc Hedlund, co-founder and CEO of Wesabe, and online management system for personal finances.

In addition of the expected secure online features to track expenses vs. budget, Marc gives few examples of super-cool features.

I like the one that enables Wesabe users to use Twitter to directly update their own accounts while buying a coffee at Starbucks!

Wesabe is certainly a company to watch, and their product a solution worth trying.

A more complete interview is accessible on the HyveUp WEB site.

Remi
www.outsourcing-vsc.com

Business | 5 Comments »

As you might know, I run a company that focuses on providing outsourcing services to SMBs. A significant portion of our customers are WEB 2.0 startups located in the Silicon Valley who decided to outsource part or all of their engineering.

As a result, a substantial part of our corporate communication is geared toward these companies.

Hence the decision we made last year to sponsor HyveUp, a company that produces video clips where WEB 2.0 startups’ founders or executives share their stories and vision.

The companies interviewed are not necessarily our clients (actually only a very few are, bummer!), but I found interesting to share on my blog the vision and experience of these entrepreneurs who are living the dream of becoming the next Facebook. In fact, some of the interviewees are already well on their way, like Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder.

Let’s start today with Swivel, a company that was created in December 2005 by Dmitry Dimov and Brian Mulloy who wanted to create a place for SMBs to manage their data spreadsheets, share them internally or externally, and find great public data on the spot. A Youtube for spreadsheets!

I love the idea. I have been looking a million times around for templates of sales forecasts, cash flow projections, etc. Swivel is the place to go to find this information.

Go to HyveUp to read more about this story, and many more.

I will post regularly more Hyveup interviews.

Remi
www.outsourcing-vsc.com

Business | 14 Comments »