I agree 100% with you. I use drop.io a lot for any and all uses including sending myself documents from other computers. I have had rally bad experiences with Google Docs and never plan to use them again for file sharing in this regard.

Daniel Brusilovsky: I totally agree. Great service. Great signup. It's great all-around. It's me, Mario!: I'm aware of bugmenot, but the problem is that other people can see/edit/delete (or change the password on) the documents and other files/data. I'm not saying this information should be "public", but it would be nice if there was a 1-click thing from the invitation email to grab the email address attached to the "guest" account, and just have a simple agreement page. With that being said, Bugmenot is great for certain sites. :)

there is a website you can use bugmenot.com it allows u to bypass login on compulsory registration sites. just type the url of the website yo uneed to login to, it gives a list of usernames and passwords and their chance of working, the most likely are at the top. there is also a firefox extension they make bugmenot, that allows you to right click, and click login with bugmenot

I think drop.io is an awesome service!

omg, I LUUV the pink iPod nano. I got my iPod in Sept. when the pinks werent out yet, so instead got a Blue. Now tht they came out, Im definitly getting one soon. Actually, I plan to get one this sunday XD Cant wait!

[...] thomson posted this article & comparison chart of plurk vs. [...]

I love Twitter and Plurk, although I do get put off by having to log into the website to post on Plurk. Twitter, for me, is for quick communication and checking out my niches via keywords search (TweetBeep). Plurk is somehow for more intimate and high quality conversation in a very cool GUI.

Very nice list. I found a couple here that I was unaware of. There is also a new site that is quickly accumulating freeware. They are adding 5 new freeware programs per day. www.freethemac.com

[...] you find interesting content from incoming sources… Retaggr: Your Business Card for the Web by Chris [...]

David: I totally agree about Twitter. I just got back from a internet-free weekend, and have no clue on what has happened in the Twitterverse, and I honestly don't care. I track all mentions of me, and things that I don't want to miss (sites I write for, my projects, etc. etc.), but other than that, I can't be bothered. I hope Twitter becomes more usable soon. The random polls are very annoying on Plurk. The whole karma thing on Plurk seems to be a system to keep users active and on the site. It makes sense for the company site of Plurk, but for the user side? It seems to just get in the way — random polls, too much time needed on the site, etc.

Mike Cohen: Good point. It would be nice to be able to set privacy settings based on public users, "friends", and possibly "trusted friends". I don't know about you, but I don't think Retaggr should have to have the option of adding friends (haven't we already done that on too many networks already...?), but it should pull friend data from a popular social network (or several), if possible. That'd be very cool. David: Yeah, the process of setting up Retaggr certainly isn't the greatest. But hey, the FriendFeed import is pretty nice and convenient, if you have a FriendFeed account setup. :)

I've had a Retaggr card for a little while now. (I think you may have twittered about it before?). I didn't really take too much time customizing mine. It's kind of boring. Maybe one day I'll work on it more :P

Chris: I had used Twitter for that stuff, but now it's become unusable to me. If I can't go back in my timeline more than 20 updates (1 page), there really is no point at all. Hence the whole dropping of Twitter. As for Plurk I usually scan through the timeline for people I know from twitter, read those, then hit the mark all as read button for all the extra "noise". Seriously, some people just make random polls (What's your favorite color...Where do you live...etc) to get their karma up and it's really annoying. I'm going to unfollow them at my earliest convenience, to make Plurk a better experience since twitter is not satisfying me in that area. The other thing about twitter is that I could subscribe to everyone's RSS feed.. but is it really worth all that trouble? It would be so much simpler to have a usable service, not one you have to jump through hoops for.

It should allow friends to see all info & others to see limited info.

Nutz: Good point, but keep in mind the location is restricted to a city, and doesn't require a phone number. Doesn't even reveal the user's email address. If you prefer not to show your real name, there's nothing stopping you from putting in your online handle instead. :)

i don't think this is very safe. ur telling ppl where u live, what ur name is and other personal information on the internet. u dont know who could grab hold of the card.

Pixel Head: Twitter and Plurk don't have any revenue streams, yet. However, Twitter has ads on the japanese version of their website, which I assume they're using to test out how that business model does. But they certainly don't have a huge business model yet.

David: So you mention that you're considering dropping Twitter, you don't use IM much, and you use "mark all as read" a lot on Plurk... then where do you keep updating on what everyone is up to, and what everyone is sharing (whether it's info or links)? Do you just read it when you're at your computer, and don't worry about the rest of it? By the way, I can't wait for you to get your blog back online. I'm really interested to read what you have to say about your hate against buzz words! :P

Here's my current status of things Email: I check my primary email about 3 - 5 times a day, depending on where I am or how busy I am. My other email address (the one that I give out to all you people on the internet), I check every day, or every other day. That account honestly rarely gets anything personal, mostly auto alerts from other websites. Twitter: Managing twitter has gotten so much easier in the last week. It's called the "twitter is broken and won't let me view past the FIRST PAGE". If I'm gone for more than 30 minutes (as I am frequently), I miss everything. This has severely impacted my twitter addiction, and I'm in consideration of dropping use of the service entirely. Plurk: Mark all as read is my friend here. I've followed too many people that first day, and never really took the time to trim out annoying people. IM: I laugh at IM. Me and IM will never get along. Even my personal account that I used to chat with my friends is rarely used. Maybe if I put Adium in my login items ..? RSS: I started out this year subscribing to way too many RSS feeds. I trimmed it down to about 150. And it's time for me to start doing that again. I also have way too many del.icio.us bookmarks that I'll never read, and I have 250+ items in my NNW Clippings folder. It's sad. I won't go on about your use of the meaningless phrase 'new media', I'll save that for a future blog post on my blog ... which remains offline currently.

Digg is a news site like Slashdot but with a social aspect and Delicious is a bookmarking system. They're not really the same thing and its pretty dumb when people tell you to "bookmark this through digg" because it sjust begging for promotion another good thing about delicious is they dont delete your account, I'm on my 9th digg account because they keep deleting them, so just have to keep registering with fake emails