January 1st, 2009

Happy New Year - 09 Web Links for 09

I suppose I should be writing about my New Year's Resolutions for 2009, but I don't have 'em nailed down just yet.  I could also write about my plans for this year, but I'd prefer to make those plans a surprise ;-).  And, so, in the interest of being brief, here are my top 9 links for the first day of 2009.  Happy New Year - and thanks for visiting me here!

1.  FirstFollow on Twitter - if you're on the world's most talked about microblogging site, find out anyone's first-follow.

2.  PCMag's Top 20 Podcasts to Download in 2008 - commandN and TWiT made the list, among many other great (FREE!) shows

3.  five.sentenc.es - The solution to all your email problem (thx Deepak!)

4.  soup.io - "A super-easy tumblelog" for anyone too busy to blog -  (thx Leo!)

5.  Merlin Mann is the Man - My favourite quote about blogging

6.  Scrivener - amazing (Mac) writing software (thx Rahaf!)

7.  decabled - My brother Jeff's new blog about cutting the cable cord once and for all

8.  QR Codes - Make your own, just like commandN (thx Chris!)

9.  Twply missed the boat - the first company to spam Twitter users in the new year.  Great concept, bad marketing move

January 1st, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (9)

Posted by: Jennifer Wilson - Agent Solutions | around 6 months ago

Happy New Year Amber! Great list. Jeff has me intrigued with his decabled site. I can't tell you how frustrating it is to find a past episode of something to watch and then getting a message that says it is not available in your area and only available to US residents. I look forward to Jeff's decabled posts as well as your own. Happy New Year!

Posted by: ChiliMac | around 6 months ago

What do ya know, my first follow is you Amber. Must have discovered Twitter on Net at Night. Happy New Year! :D

Posted by: Jill | around 6 months ago

Happy New Year! Re: tumblelogs - are you a Tumblr user Amber?

Posted by: Christopher Clay, Soup.io | around 6 months ago

Hi Amber -- thanks for the plug! Happy New Year everyone.

Posted by: Andrew | around 6 months ago

Glad you guys made the top 20, you're one of the most consistent video podcasts out there!

Posted by: Amber Mac | around 5 months ago

Thanks for the feedback everyone! As for Tumblr, love the site but don't use it on a regular basis. -Amber

Posted by: Sergio | around 5 months ago

Please put a favicon on your site and command N, I like my computer looking nice and neat, with my FF extensions and not having AmberMac and CommandN on my FF toolbar with Smart Bookmarks Bar, because the favicons look odd really sucks. I have to place both sites in just book mark section.

Posted by: ChrisFizik | around 5 months ago

Happy '09 everyone --- Re: QR Codes ---I like to mention that you can also use the Google Charts API to make your own! pretty easily too! Amber Mac one --> http://tinyurl.com/88y4wr ....... see google site http://tinyurl.com/8olthd ---- have fun! The Japanese use these things for full address book infos and everything!

Posted by: Matt Y | around 5 months ago

Merlin's quote is AWESOME!