So much for Leapfish!

It looked like Leapfish might have gained a small advantage on Google, with it's "live search" as I wrote about several days ago.  But, the announcement from Google basically makes it moot.

From the Google blog:

"Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you'll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information."

Google Chrome OS to Launch Within a Week

As a big google fan, I hope that this is true.

Google Chrome OS to Launch Within a Week

5PM is working beautifully, two weeks into our implementation, for tracking our tasks.  We're more focused and more productive for the time period.  The only downfall so far is the inability to quickly add multiple tasks.  I'm finding that laying out a new project is a little time consuming because a new form has to be populated for each task, and I'd like to be able to quickly create multiple tasks at one time.

5PM is the choice.

Well, I've officially tried all of the expensive and crappy PM software in the world. The vast majority of it sucks. All that I can say is that this is a good example of throwing it against the wall and seeing what sticks. For me, there were a couple of decent choices like Basecamp and it's look-alikes. Then there's 5PM. Which has everything that I need except milestones, and for me this one is a second tier requirement because most of my projects aren't the kind that have tons of people all working on it at the same time and they don't last for a year. I mainly want a timeline, tasks with meta data and sub tasks, and email integrations, and 5PM has all of the above. It's a little bit expensive, but still 25% cheaper than Basecamp at $18/month.

What kind of comments do you have about PM software?

Will Leapfish be the new internet gateway?

Like most of you, I've been using Google for my internet gateway. This weekend I discovered Leapfish.com, and I'm not sold that it's going to be the new Google, but it's a definite step in the right direction. The big thing that Leapfish.com is adding to the scene is aggregation of many different data types. In Google, you have to search for blogs from the blog search, and images from the image search. Leapfish rolls it all of this along with Twitter and Facebook posts into one portal. You still have the regular web search if you click on "web", and from there you can also get to Google, Yahoo or Bing results. Aggregating the three sets of results is enough for me to try it out, but the real time search has big potential to reign in all of the Web 2.0 information.