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2009: Products We Can’t Live Without

Monday Jan 05, 2009

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Every year, Michael Arrington publishes a list of his favorite technology startups and products. The criteria is simple: they all must be products he uses on a daily basis, and contribute to his overall happiness or productivity. We thought we'd do the same for products we love here at NewsCred. Given the distributed nature of our startup (we have people in NYC, Geneva, Stockholm and Bangladesh), a lot of the tools we use enable us to work efficiently together, despite the distances. Some of these are fun, while others facilitate collaboration or innovation witghin our company. Without further ado, here's our list for 2009: 1) GoogleDocs - simply an amazing collaboration and productivity suite. We use it to create documents, share, and even as a PDF converter. 2) Skype - allows us to stay in touch, all day, every day, from every corner of the Earth. Via video too. 3) Dropbox - a new tool we've started using to share documents and files. Dead simple to use - it's starting to replace e-mail in some instances by allowing us to 'send' documents via DropBox. 4) WordPress - powers this blog. But time for a new look in 2009! 5) Gmail - by far the best web-based e-mail client. Love some of the products that are still in the Labs - like the "forgotten attachement detector." 6) Twitter - we don't pay people to do our PR or marketing: we use Twitter. 7) Amazon Web Services - incredible array of technology services that enable us to run our startup leanly. EC2 andd S3 are the two biggies, but we're starting to branch out and use some of the other products in 2009. Scaling up from 1 server to 1000 automatically in a matter of seconds? Priceless. 8) Songza - What's that tune? Songza rocks, but it still amazes me that it's just a front-end for YouTube and iMeem. 9) Google Analytics - a startup is all about collecting and analzing metrics, and we couldn't do it without Google web analytics. 10) Mechanical Turk - technically, it's part of AWS, but the sheer awesomeness of this service deserves a separate spot. We use it all the time, and the quality of results, coupled with the cost efficiencies make it a no-brainer for 2009. What's on your list?

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