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As an entrepreneur, I look to others to tell me about the latest apps, time-savers, hacks, and tricks. However, no female founders were interviewed. So I decided to do one with all women. Below is just a small sampling of the great female entrepreneurs and some of the apps--business and otherwise--that they can't live without.I culled a list of some kick-butt women entrepreneurs whom I look up to and a few I'm lucky enough to know. Clearly, I have a lot of downloading to do....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
This is a really excellent last with a lot new-to-me apps worth checking out... 
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They say the only constant in life is change— that aptly applies to social media, when the latest trends can go the way of the Dodo in mere days....... I’ve spent the past few years researching hundreds of sites, and have even compiled my findings in a book: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Social Media, But Were Afraid to Ask … Building Business Using Consumer Generated Media. Since then, I’ve been a “student” of social media. Here are some of the newest social-networking platforms and apps that I’ve come across, many of which may help you...
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With a wave of a hand or lift of a finger, you’re about to change the way you use your computer. The Leap Motion Controller senses how you move your hands, the way you move them naturally. So you can point, wave, reach, and grab. Even pick something up and put it down. Just like in real life. It’s an amazing device for the things you do every day and for things you never thought you could do. Just $79.99.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
This looks absolutely cool!
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The Fan TV offers live TV, DVR functionality, and access to video from around the web..? Fan TVA new gadget, called the Fan TV, has everything we want from a set-top box. While we don't know when it's coming out or how much it will cost, we do know one thing: It looks awesome. Just gotta have it!
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Gotta get me one of these Fan TV gadgets! When this new set-top box hits the market, watch the pace of change in TV viewing accelerate. Marketers take note.
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With Google ringing the death knell for its RSS Reader application, the July 1 curtain call has kicked a number of companies into action as they vie for the market left by Google Reader’s closure. Digg has already thrown its hat into the ring, as it plans to build an RSS app with the best of Google Reader’s features. And Feedly is benefiting too. Earlier this week, another RSS service opened in public beta called Ping.it, offering an interesting feature called ‘Probes’ which lets users create very specific feeds based on keywords and popularity. Ping.it and probes Ping.it launched initially in private beta back in December, before Google revealed it was pulling the plug on Reader. At its most basic level, Ping.it is an RSS reader. But it’s the new Probes feature that’s particularly interesting. For example, if you only want to receive feeds on “YouTube videos on Reddit with more than 1,000 Likes”, you can create a Probe that taps both YouTube and Reddit to present this information directly in your feed. Without creating a Ping.it account, all you can really do is subscribe to probes created by other users....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
This reader app is worth a look and this review gives you the scoop.
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Everybody knows Evernote and Dropbox. Here's a sneak peek at the next wave of productivity apps that top entrepreneurs like Tim Ferriss Seth Godin use... I asked my favorite entrepreneurs their absolute favorite, yet very little-known tools, they use to achieve everyday tasks. After lots of correspondences and digging deep into these entrepreneurs' toolkits, here are their unedited answers....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Good snapshot of useful apps and several new ones to me.
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Google has hundreds of apps, but there are some that can have a serious impact on your online marketing initiatives that seem to be flying under the radar....
... Sure, Google has hundreds of apps, but there are some that can have a serious impact on your online marketing initiatives that seem to be flying under the radar. Additionally, Google’s products typically have “freemium” models, which offer the invaluable opportunity to experiment with a variety of different techniques and hone in on what serves your brand most. We’re all for testing out the latest and greatest from the world’s most powerful Internet giant.
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to give a few of these seemingly under-appreciated products a spin....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Really liked this post and its reminder of several great tools!
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When no electricity is available, a new self-powered emergency smartphone charger juices your smartphone with simple hand cranking. You could have all the apps in the world to prepare you for survival when disaster strikes — flashlight, emergency contacts, GPS and first aid tips — but they'll be entirely useless when you run out of battery juice on your phone.
If you're camping in the boondocks or preparing a disaster survival kit, you might want to consider a low-tech emergency smartphone charger. Seattle-based SOS Ready has designed the pocket-sized "SOSCharger," which is powered by you. With the gadget's built-in generator, all you do is connect to your smartphone via USB connection and hand-crank the handle. The SOSCharger has a 1,500 mAh Lithium Polymer battery, and depending on your phone and network, the company claims three to five minutes of winding will translate to five to 12 minutes of talk time....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
When someone says "crank it up", I'm sure this wasn't what was top of your mind. But this is one really cool tool that will bail you out in an emergency when you can't recharge your smartphone or any of your other social devices.
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Nothing screams “summer!” like a bag full of beer and ice. The messenger-bag gurus at Timbuk2 know this, and have re-clad and re-released their stealthy party-in-a-bag bag, the Dolores Chiller Messenger — this time in Pilsner Urquell’s signature green and white colors. You may be asking “can’t I just dump all the stuff out of my own messenger bag and fill it with beer and ice?” Why no, you can’t. Your bag’s interior isn’t insulated; and more importantly, your bag doesn’t come with a handy bottle opener....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Ahh summer and beer. Ingenuity and did I mention beer?... ;-)
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Why join storination? To create in less than a minute a beautiful Storyboard with awesome content curated by you and others. How to start a Nation ? Connect with your twitter account and open your first Nation. A Nation is an online community on any kind of topic. It's a space where you and other people add into a storyboard social stories. Customize your Nation like a blog by uploading a logo, and a large cover. Now, you can publish a Storify story by collecting photos, video, tweets... or If you prefer, just import social stories directly from Storify to your Nation.
Jeff Domansky's insight:
I'm looking forward to exploring this tool which fits together nicely with Storify.
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
July 1, 2013 3:09 PM
Storination is a new storytelling tool with tons of potential. Just starting to explore but it looks exciting for collaborative storytelling and community building around stories, themes or ideas. Hat tip to Giuseppe Mauriello for pointing it out. 
Celebritize You's curator insight,
July 1, 2013 5:52 PM
Create an amazing storyboard in just a few minutes.
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Creating things on the web has started to become easier to do with the help of some of the amazing web tools and apps that are out there....Today, I am taking a look at a web application that offers the mass market of people the ability to create their own ebook/magazine. Blooki.st gives people a platform where they can easily create content on the web so that it can be distributed to the world. They aren’t the first web app to do this, and they most certainly won’t be the last, but there was something about how clean and easy it looked to use that I thought I had to just try it out for myself....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Very, very interesting storytelling and content tool. I see all kinds of possibilities for Blooki.st for creative projects, writing, blogging, perhaps even marketing. It has limited features but, as you can see, its design is exceptional. I'll be exploring at to see how it can be used creatively.
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Gone are the simple days of running a small business; gone is the time when a disgruntled customer's voice had a lifespan of a few days. We live in the future now, where reviews live forever....
... OwnerListens, a startup that spun out of a hummus shop in Palo Alto, is trying to give customers a more direct alternative to Yelp — and they’ve just raised over a million bucks to do it. Through OwnerListens, customers can send messages directly and anonymously to a business owner, who can then respond immediately via SMS. Feedback doesn’t have to be negative, of course — it can be positive, or even just a suggestion.
The logic behind OwnerListens is pretty straight-forward: if you give customers a direct, pain-free line to the owner, they’ll (hopefully) try to get things fixed instead of storming straight to Yelp to punch out a 200-word tirade. And because it’s anonymous and private, customers will — at least theoretically — be honest and upfront....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
New app will get the owner's attention when consumers can send a direct message about service or product issues.
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The Segway. The Bluetooth headset. The pocket protector. What do these three technologies have in common? They all pretty much work as promised. They all seem like good ideas on paper. And they’re all too dorky to live.
Now, far be it from me to claim that nerdiness equals lack of popularity potential. But I contend that dorkiness and nerdiness are two different qualities. While nerdiness implies a certain social awkwardness that’s ultimately endearing, dorkiness connotes social obliviousness that opens you to deserved ridicule.
Guess which category Google Glass will fall under when it goes “mainstream?” Forget about the privacy concerns for a second. I don’t think you have to get that serious to recognize the inherent antisocialness of Google Glass. All you have to do is look at the guy in the picture at the top of this post. Or any of the rest of the guys on White Men Wearing Google Glass, a new Tumblr that serves up the data needed to transform the hypothesis “Google Glass is too dorky to succeed” into a proven scientific theory. Disagree? The floor is open for falsification. Start your own Tumblr: People Who Look Cool While Wearing Google Glass....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Google Glass may never catch fire because of its cost among other things. And technology moves so fast, it may be irrelevant by the time it launches this fall. But you can be sure that "wearable" computers is an idea that's coming fast. It just won't be "one-size-fits-all."
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Twitter has become much more than 140-character blurbs, and now Tweetbot is using that additional content to turn our media-rich feeds into a stream of photos and videos for users to quickly scroll through. An update released today for Tweetbot on iPhone and iPad introduces a new timeline view that displays images and videos — including content from Instagram, Vine, and YouTube — inside of the Twitter feed.
The display uses tweets as captions for the content, and it omits any tweets that don't include something to look at. Twitter has been working to enrich its feeds with news stories, images, and interactive content by letting developers create multimedia cards — but so far that effort hasn't exactly livened up the text-based medium on mobile devices. Tweetbot's media stream may do just that; it doesn't require users to actively open content to engage with it, and instead works by surfacing those images and videos.
While it may repeat tweets that have already gone by, it's an easy way to catch up on things you may have missed. The new timeline appears to display all image and video content supported on Twitter itself, as well as select outside sources, such as Instagram, that require custom support.
However, the view doesn't include all of the frills and shortcuts that Tweetbot's traditional feed has, though it can be quickly toggled on and off at the top of a timeline beside the app's search box. No announcement has been made about when or if the new view will be coming to the desktop, but if it's anything like the mobile-centric apps that it resembles, it could be a while....
Jeff Domansky's insight:
Haven't tried it yet but I will be exploring the possibilities of this app for content marketing.
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Robin Good: Readlists is a simple web app which allows you to easily create curated lists of web resources, articles and links and bundle them to a downloadable eBook.
To create a "Readlist" you simply click on the Create a Readlist button and add one url at a time. The system gently grabs metadata info like title and author and elegatly lays it out in an ebook formatted reading index ready to be published.
The service is free to use.
Try it out now: http://readlists.com
[This is is cool tool for readers, researchers, PR pros - JD] Via Robin Good, Giuseppe Mauriello
Ken Morrison's comment,
May 27, 2012 1:39 AM
Thank you. THis was helpful. I really enjoyed the great commencement speech one!
Ken
Jeff Domansky's curator insight,
June 29, 2013 9:53 PM
Create an e-book from your reading list. Very cool! |
Interesting collection of tools, and insight by the users.
This is really good list with some known and unknown apps that are very, very helpful. What would you add to the list? Any really good finds that they left off?
These are great tools to check out for businesses who wanted to stay on top of different things - from notes, to emails to vids, etc.