Constitutional Law

Tools the Power Geeks Use

By J.D. Lasica

We just wound up our Innovation Israel tour of Israel's tech community, and I'm in awe of the Silicon Valley alpha geeks I traveled with during the week. (Here's our group blog: Travelinggeeks.com.)

Anyone in the media, publishing or tech business should be interested in the software applications and Web 2.0 tools (on the Web and on the desktop) that these folks use on an almost daily basis.

Robert Scoble
Scobleizer

Firefox (web browser)
FriendFeed (social media sharing)
Google Reader (RSS news reader)
Techmeme (a tech news dynamic link aggregator)
Twitter (social network)
GoogleTalk (live chat on Windows)
Gmail (email)
WordPress (blog software)
Flickr (photo sharing)
Skype (communication) 
Facebook
Qik (live video streaming and hosting)
iTunes (music)
TweetScan (Twitter add-on)

Craig Newmark 
Craig from craigslist's blog

Firefox
SSH (secure shell)
Pine (email client) 
TypePad
Twitter ("curse you, Robert Scoble!")
MovableType (blog software of Huffington Post and MyBarackObama.com)
SmugMug (photo sharing)
YouTube 
Bloglines (RSS reader)
Skype
iTunes

"Click here to see the entire list...":http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/04/tools-the-power-geeks-use.html

Full post as published by MediaShift Idea Lab on April 18, 2008 (boomark / email).