Monthly Archive for October, 2006

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Donation from September Revenue

Published on 18 October, 2006 in my ideas. 0 Comments

Another pay check! Time for another donation. This month I’m picking 2 useful Firefox extension for donation.

The first is GTDGMail, a Firefox plugin to implement GTD (Get Things Done) using GMail.

Since I reported using it less than a month ago, I had pretty good result with GTD.

GTDGMail is a Donationware, you can read more about the plugin and the background behind it on their blog.

The second is Gmail Manager, another Firefox plugin. Gmail Manager allows you to manage multiple GMail accounts.

If you have a few GMail accounts which you need to sign in and out frequently to switch between them, you will find GMail Manager very useful.

To the developers I say, “Thanks for creating these useful plugins, my little contribution is on the way.”

links for Sep 09-15

Published on 15 October, 2006 in links. 0 Comments

No specific purpose this week. Collecting interesting information as I come across them.

(Since, I into GTD recently, I wonder, how can all these del.icio.us links be collected under the reference tag of GTD.)

I was setting up my office wireless LAN, so there are some interesting find regarding wireless LAN.

Continue reading ‘links for Sep 09-15′

Google buys YouTube

Published on 11 October, 2006 in google, online and thoughts. 0 Comments

YouTube + Google

This must be the talk of the town. 1.65 billion in stock. Google purchase of YouTube is heating up the internet once again.

I watch YouTube because somehow Google Videos is not available in China. Would the acquisation cut off YouTube from China? I hope not.

Speculation, theory, analysis and naysayer abound.

The biggest take away for me is why buy YouTube when Google has its own video site? It is not the first time Google does this. I recall MeasureMap and Urchin (now Google Analytics). In the standard business textbook there are a few reasons for that:

Take out your strongest competitor
Create an even bigger market
Synergy, better leverage of resources

Whatever the case, I’m just an observer, sometime wondering how all these money game is being played out.

GTDGMail after 2 weeks

Published on 9 October, 2006 in google, my ideas and online. 0 Comments

This is how my GMail inbox look like since started using GTDGMail 2 weeks ago.

inbox after GTDMail

I didn’t take a screenshot of the inbox before but it was close to 100 times that figure.

Did GTD Work?

Well, the idea of GTD is simple and attractive. Although GTDGMail is a nice Firefox plugin to implement the concept of GTD in Gmail, I haven’t quite gotten the most out of it for 3 reasons.

If you have thousands of thing in your head, jotted on post-it or stacked across the desk, can you imagine getting all that into GTDGMail?
I haven’t gotten around to tag things outside of my GMail inbox. There got to be a better way instead of sending myself a thousand emails.
I get quite alot of email, the end result is that I spend alot of time following the two minutes rule to clear each email without skipping any.
The tagging and reviewing work flow is still very clumbersome for me.

All of these are not really a problem with GTD or GTDGMail per se but more of getting the workflow right.

I believe GTD fit into what I’m doing online, especially with more than a handful of ideas going on. More update as I go along.