Evernote Your Life

25 May, 2008  5 Comments

Ever wished you could remember the phone number of that cute girl at the bar? With Evernote, you won’t ever forget anything again!

How does Evernote work?

  1. You capture the things you want to remember using what you already use—your Windows or Mac computer, the web, and your mobile phone.
  2. We run everything through our recognition technology and then make it all available across your devices. You can then organize and tag the notes, if you want.
  3. When you want to remember something, just search for it and there it is just like you remember it.

Think about that for a second. You can take a picture of ANYTHING with your phone, and have it be available for all eternity (or until the internet crashes) AND searchable. Evernote is going to make it big within 6 months.

It is currently in Beta, but accounts are available as of now.

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Twing-alicious searching

25 May, 2008  8 Comments

In the search world, competition is fierce. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo pour millions of dollars into advertising their search engines to gain every last user on the internet. There is a new player in the business now thought, and it looks like Twing is going to hit the ball out of the park.

Twing is an “alternative search engine” that I found while perusing the farthest corners of the internet (yes, the internet is square). By alternative, Twing is just “not one of the big 5″. That’s catchy. But the important question to ask any new search engine is, “Does your search work?”

I was pretty skeptical about Twing when I first arrived at their homepage. Supposedly, it searches forums and forum posts, rather than searching plain old static pages. Interesting, haven’t ever seen that before. This is what Twing has to say about itself:

We’re dedicated to the world of online communities and forums. Our intent is to enable you to quickly find highly relevant communities and discussions pertaining to your interests, as well as keep you informed on the latest trends influencing communities. Members of Twing also can track activity on their favorite forums and stay informed on updates via custom alerts.

Again, you can promise the world, but can you deliver?  Let’s see what Twing can find for me…

Me: Simpsons Bartender
Twing: 255 results, first one included ‘Moe’
Not bad….

Me: 1980 Olympics
Twing: 2100 results, second one was about the USA hockey team - exactly what I was looking for
Very nice

Me: Tetris creator
Twing: 312 results, first one including Alexey Pajitnov.
I am extremely impressed

Overall, Twing did a great job handling search requests and providing an easy way to find information without following deep link trees.  The user interface is also very nice and easy to use.  Twing is definitely going to make an impact in the search engine world, watch out Google.

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