DISQUS

Gary Will · 3 years ago

I'm pretty sure that would be "eating the Web 2.0 dog food." Drinking the Web 2.0 Kool-aid is what you guys do in your blogs. :-)

Mathew · 3 years ago

Kool-Aid, dog food -- call it whatever you want, Gary. Out west it's called "drinking your own whiskey" if you're being nice, and "drinking your own bathwater" if you're not.

Interesting fact: According to the Kool-Aid company, cult leader Jim Jones didn't give his followers poisoned Kool-Aid in the jungles of Guyana -- he gave them a cheap knock-off called Flavor-Aid

Mathew

Rick Mahn · 3 years ago

Well, I've been using a lot of these sites as well, and am addicted to what the new metaphor brings to usability.

Simply having everything online is a great boon to my personal life productivity. I've got my contacts, email, blog, projects, documents, and access to pictures online. In addition, via services like Orb, Avvenu, and LogMeIn, I've got access to everything on my personal network as well.

When storage services like Googles "GDrive" or Microsoft's "LiveDrive" come online, it will change things even more radically.

Kool-Aid, dogfood, sure I'll have a serving! There is room for improvement, but that is where many services are using the Scrum development methodology, and their products and services are improving as a result.

Also, check out Box.net, ThinkFree and ZoHo. More good stuff.

Mathew Ingram · 3 years ago

Thanks for the comment, Rick. I've used Avvenu and Orb too, as well as LogMeIn (and another Canadian one called I'm In Touch, which I highly recommend). And I've tried out Box.net as well as another online storage app called Mozy, and one called Carbonite -- still evaluating them though.

ThinkFree is quite good -- I wrote about them for my day job at globeandmail.com/technology.

Mathew