I spoke yesterday as the post-lunch keynote at BlogPotomac at the State Theater in Falls Church, Virginia. It was a lot of fun and was streamed live on the Web so I actually had family members watching along in Chicago - gotta love technology.
I spoke about my social media life and how it has helped get me where I am today. I also spoke about my love for products or "bright, shiny objects" as I refer to them. I did a brain dump of all the products and services I used routinely. I listed services I use at least once a week. I like to share because sharing is caring - so I wanted to share the list of products with you (below).
Photo thanks to Josh Hallet from hyhu.
Communications
Gmail - For email that allows away messages
AOL Mail - For email with a personalized domain
Remember the Milk - Enables me to create to-do lists that can be pulled into Gmail or accessed on the iPhone with a pro account
AIM Instant Messenger - For instant messaging using AIM client and within Gmail
AwayFind - Enables people to connect with me quickly via a form that sends a message to my mobile device - more AwayFind details
Facebook - This social utility offers an opportunity to communicate with some of my friends and family
Twitter - This microblogging platform is great for communicating to a larger group of friends like a broadcast instant message both online or via text message
Photos
Flickr - I have a pro account and over 6500 photos uploaded... like this one of my breakfast yesterday. :)
Video
TubeMogul - For easy distribution of my video podcast videos onto as many platforms as possible in only a few simple steps - more TubeMogul details
Viddler - A video platform I use which offers a slick video player with inline comments, I use it for SOMEWHAT FRANK TV
Blip.tv - A video platform I use for formulating my video podcast SOMEWHAT FRANK TV feed
YouTube - For online videos shorter than 10 minutes
eyespot - I don't use this one as much but it is still the only online video product that allows you to edit video and then download the edited video in multiple formats
Blogging or Microblogging
Typepad - A hosted blog platform - SOMEWHAT FRANK, is powered by Typepad
WordPress - An open source blog platform - the TECH cocktail site is powered by WordPress
Tumblr - A microblogging platform - I use it for my personal site, FJ Gruber - more Tumblr details
Storage
Evernote - A digital dropbox with a desktop, Web and mobile component - more Evernote details
Content Discovery & Sharing
Mixx - Social news - more Mixx details
Digg - Social news
Delicious - Social bookmarking
StumbleUpon - Content discovery
Shareaholic - A consolidated sharing extension for Firefox - more Shareaholic details
Analytics
SiteMeter - Offers a snapshot view of daily site traffic and activity
FeedBurner - Analytics for my feeds including number of subscribers - more FeedBurner details
Google Analytics - For deeper site traffic metrics
News & Information Management
myAOL - A personalized startpage and feed reader experience - more myAOL details
FeedHub - Creates a personalized feed list based on your reading habits - more FeedHub details
AideRSS - Ranks items in a feed by popularity - more AideRSS details
Search & Alerts
Summize - Twitter search
Google Alerts - Alerts for monitoring the Web
Filtrbox - New more sophisticated alerts product for monitoring the Web - more Filtrbox details
Lijit - Blog search engine which offers search analytics - more Lijit details
Lifestream Aggregators
SocialThing - Aggregates all your profile updates and your friends into one lifestream - more SocialThing details
MyBlogLog - Creates a community and lifestream around your blog community contacts - more MyBlogLog details
FriendFeed - Creates a conversation around your lifestream - I find it a little distracting though
TwitterFeed - Aggregates my items and places them into my Twitter updates automatically - more TwitterFeed details
Travel
Dopplr - Share your travels with others online - more Dopplr details
Tripit - Organizes your travel plans for you - more Tripit details
Project Management
Basecamp - A project management tool created by 37signals
Finance
Quicken Online - I tried to use Quicken for Mac and it was way too complicated so I gave Quicken Online a shot for managing my financial picture easily in one place.
These are the products I like to use. Let me know if there are others that I am not using that you like are using routinely.
