Manymoon for Project Management
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Now it’s a party …
Recently posts like this one have speculated that we may be experiencing yet another bubble. If you’re playing our home game you know that’s bubble #3; the dot-com boondoggle, the Web 2.0 inflate-a-thon, and now … Color.
What is Color? A photo-sharing App with wrinkles like automatically merging photos with those of every other user within 150 feet. Bam! Instant photo network with total strangers. That’s not creepy.
Business models aside however, here’s the thing. Color just came out, has never made a dime, and may never work out. But it just got $41,000,000 in venture capital funding. Sound familiar? Does Pets.com ring any bells? Netscape? Webvan? Kozmo? Flooz? Gov.com?
All coming back to you? Maybe it’s time to put your money into something stable like Tulip Bulbs.
Posted via email from practice (redux)
26
03 2011
Podio – One app to rule them all, One app to bind them
It’s Basecamp … it’s Highrise … it’s DropBox … it’s Yammer … it’s … Podio? Yes it is. And it’s on your iPhone, your iPad, your Android device, and in your office. Danish start-up Podio has elegantly married file sharing, contact management, task tracking, real-time asynchronous communication (i.e. Twitter functions) and more into a single, easy to use, free package. Did I say free? Yeah I did. Free for up to 10 users in a company. $99/year for up to 25. That makes Podio a no-brainer for solo’s and small law firms. Compare what it does and what it costs with the bill of goods you’re currently being sold by legal technology vendors who assume lawyers are too uninformed, gullible, or busy to check up on them. It’s shameful. Meanwhile, Podio integrates functions that the more tech-literate among us now use in Basecamp, Dropbox, Yammer, and other applications. But for most lawyers Podio will simply be a revelation and unbelievable resource. Hey, did I just save you thousands of dollars in useless, bloated office software? I think I did. You’re welcome. And by the way: Boom Shakalaka!
25
03 2011
Proposed Ethics Opinion: Groupon = Fee Splitting
According to this piece in the ABA Journal, this week the Ethics Committee of the North Carolina Bar Association will be considering whether Groupon, the popular group-buying site that takes a % of revenue in exchange for sales, constitutes “fee splitting” when used by lawyers. An advanced peek at a staff opinion leaked to the NC Lawyers’ Weekly indicates that the committee will indeed hold that Groupon raises the issue of fee splitting.
Okay. Deep breath. Here’s the deal: NC Bar Association get over yourself. Attorneys and their their clients have been negotiating mutually beneficial arrangements for centuries including discounts, group-buying, barter, exchange and, last but not least, good old fashioned cash payments. I think they’ll be able to handle Groupon without your condescending rules on what is “in the client’s best interest.” Don’t you?
23
01 2011
Use Your Phone # via Google Voice for $20
You know about Google Voice, right? You use it … or you know someone who does .. or you’ve heard of it. It’s the system that allows anybody, or any company, sound professional and do dozens of things with telephone calls that they never thought they could. All for the low low price of $0.00.
Nice.
But until recently you also had to use one of Google’s phone #’s or forward your own # to it, all of which tied you back into AT&T or whoever and just made the whole exercise seem that must less valuable.
Well now it looks like Google is going to let you port your number over to their service for about $20 and enjoy all the features of the system without letting your Clients or anyone else know about the switch.
It’s a sole-practitioner’s best friend. But don’t take my word for it, check out Google Voice or read the full post on TechCrunch
20
01 2011
PDFZilla Batch Converts PDFs Free ‘Til Feb
Windows: We’ve featured many ways to convert single PDFs to editable formats like a Word Doc, but if you work with PDFs regularly, you may need something a bit more robust. Shareware batch converter PDFZilla is free for the next few weeks.
