Man, that title is a mouthful. If you have already explored Invite Share but have had difficulty being chosen amongst the multitude of other eager would-be-testers, I have some invites sitting around that I’ll give to the first people to comment on this post.
First on the auction block is Mailplane. It is essentially a Mac OS X stand-alone client for Google’s Gmail, but it also packs a handful of useful add-ons like:
- drag and drop attachments
- iPhoto integration
- Growl integration
- Screengrab integration.
For a more in-depth review, check out this post from the always informative Derek Punsalan. At the time of this post, I have 5 invites available.
Next up is the ever popular Pownce. You’ll have to let me know what rock you’ve been living under if you don’t know about this service, but for the sake of clarity, it is the latest brainchild from Digg creator Kevin Rose. Featuring innovative new features, a cool design, and a growing community, it has a Mac/PC desktop client built on Adobe’s new AIR platform. I have 8 invites to give away.
I have a couple more that I’m going to list without descriptions, so hit the links if you are unsure of the service provided:
- Moola - 6 invites
- Skitch - 1 invite
- Grand Central - 1 invite
- Joost - a handful of invites
- Scrybe - not sure how many invites
On a side note, I’d like to say that Sandy has amazing potential, even if it took me a while to catch on, and paired with Google’s Grand Central could all but eliminate the need for personal assistants. That is, if I could ever learn how to work the espresso machine.
p.s. Could somebody please send me an invite to Streamy?? I’ll trade my first born. Can’t promise gender at this point, but with genetics progressing the way it is, I’ll let you choose.
I know I want to try Pownce and Joost.
Grand Central looks interesting, but do you get to keep your current phone number and use it?
I might want to try Moola, except it’s site doesn’t really say what it is….
I’m not sure I get what Sandy is supposed to do.
Pownce and Joost invites headed your way.
GrandCentral is essentially a web2.0 call service. Free phone number in whatever area code you want, with cool features like voicemail screening and more. I really like it, having tried free disposable phone services in the past.
I wrote about moola a couple days ago, although I can’t call up the URL very easily on my phone. Essentially referral pyramid scheme meets fun online games and actual money to be had. It’s quite addictive and for that reason I’m not sure that I can recommend it.
Sandy is an email based automated secretary. You forward and Cc email to “her” which she then sifts through and funds things like appointments, tasks and reminders which are then feed back to you in the appropriate interval. Requires some integration into your workflow, but all said and told, immensely useful. Think GTD on steroids with a personality.
Before I forget: Your “tag layout” needs to be tweaked. When you view by “tag”, there’s no obvious way to get to comments.
I googled Moola after I posted that and I do want to try it out. :-) I did the click-through on your last post to get an invite, though, so don’t worry about sending one.
The concept of Sandy is interesting, but I don’t know if it would be useful for me. GMail seems good enough for noticing people I email. I’m still looking for a GTD/TODO software and system that works well for me. (Considering moving to old school paper and pen.) And for calendaring, it might be useful but only if it can play nice with Exchange. My phone’s integration with Exchange is very nice. I’m on the waitlist right now, so we’ll see. :-)
Yea, the tag layout never deployed quite the way I wanted it to. I’ve actually got another window open in the background with the next iteration of this site waiting to get sliced to pieces.
The real issue was that I didn’t delve deep enough into Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) to figure out how to stop the “index.php?tag” from also including stuff under the portfolio category. As a result, it pulls up permalinks that have neither real posts nor comments associated with them.
The next iteration will use Expression Engine as the front page/portfolio, and a legacy copy of wordpress as the blog portion (and only because I sold some advertising links which I’m legally obligated to keep for a certain amount of time, verified only by a wordpress plugin).
Sigh.
Ok.. tag layout > comments access fixed. Still queues from my stupid portfolio category. I guess I could create a conditional tag saying if cat blah blah, but that sucker is getting axed in no time.
I’m with you on the paper and pen system. There is something really therapeutic about physically crossing an item off your todo list. I actually carry an array of Moleskin mini-notebooks that capture my thoughts when not in front of a computer.
The ironic thing about my workflow and that I’m equally enabled and disabled by my dependence on Google Calendar. Because I can’t do two-way synchronization (without paying for Spanning Sync), I can’t add calendar events from my handheld. Also, the auto-detect calendar events from within Gmail just plain SUCKS. Although very round-about, Sandy intelligently grabs my calendar specifics, and emails with an .ics attached with goes straight to iCal, which eventually gets added back to Gcal. Someday this stuff will be easy, I swear.
Hook a brother up with a Joost invite. I think that is the only one I’d really use. I hear it’s pretty sweet.
joost is definetly getting me through the long nights without an apartment in NYC. I can only send invites through the actual program, so I’ll send it as soon as I get back to my main computer.
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Exchange Server with a Windows Mobile OS phone works out surprisingly well for calendaring-on-the-go. Don’t use Exchange much for mail, but two-way calendar syncing with phones works flawlessly. So, except for your “email detecting calendar-like things” need, the future is here. It just costs a fair amount.
Hey there….I’ve been lurking for a while, just in awe of how you use the macro on your camera!
Do you still have the Grand Central invite hanging around. :-)
Can you hook me up? Thanks in advance!
m_holland at email.com
Hey Mal
Thanks for the compliment. I’m actually without camera after it had an embarassing brush with the rinse cycle, but I’ve been eyeing the new releases. Really can’t wait to start snapping pictures again.
Invitation sent. Let me know how it works for you.
Found out about Scrybe too late to get on the beta test train. Anyone know where I might trade a GrandCentral invitation for a Scrybe invititation?
I am wondering if I might get an invitation to scrype — it looks most useful. Thanks for all the info.
@JJ and Rob -
I’m sending you both scrybe invites now.
@JJ - for the record, it is scryBe, although you may have just coined the perfect bashing site. Race you to GoDaddy!
Thanks Eli Look forward to the invite.
It was actually a typo on my part, but you have me enjoying the humor!!! Life has to be fun sometimes!!
Doumo arigatou. Now if I can just figure out how to import my Outlook calendar :-(
Hi. I’d like a grandcentral invitation please, thanks a bunch! :)
This post is officially dead. Please wait for the next invite liquidation for requests.
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