Yet another alternative Powerful Online Project Management System. You may have read my previous posts about web-based online project management systems, e.g. Wrike and Basecamp. ActionThis is also in this series claiming to be the Next Generation Project Management System.
ActionThis is a web-based service for managing projects and tasks and making sure they get finished. ActionThis works with your everyday tools to help you get stuff done and go home early. ActionThis is a hosted software service that enables members to plan, execute and improve the performance of their teams.
With ActionThis you can:
- Assign and manage action items across teams
- Finish your tasks and projects, and work together to finish team projects
- Improve ongoing performance by understanding workloads and trends
ActionThis Website
Manage all your projects in one place
I have discussed an online project management and collaboration system Basecamp before. Now I thought to give my readers another good alternative.
Wrike is a Web-based application that makes it simple to trigger projects and tasks from the medium in which most projects and tasks originate, namely e-mail.
Manage from email, Organize tasks, Work together, Get things done…
Wrike is safe and secure. Wrike is a leader in on-demand Online Project Management. Wrike helps to save time for marketing agencies, software development teams, event organizers, publishers, financial services firms, process engineering companies and many others.
Wrike is project management web-based software that helps you save time on planning, processing, tracking and completing your projects. Wrike Individual Plan is free.
Wrike Website
Apple Movie Trailers (Coming attractions for movie)
Blogger (The place to go to create your own blog)
Craigslist (Portal of classified ads )
Drudge Report (Matt Drudge, newsbreaker - got more than 3.5 billion hits in the past year)
Ebay (Auction Powerhouse)
ESPN (Best all-around sports site)
Factcheck.org (Apart speeches, press releases, TV ads and other public statements by politicians )
Flickr (This public showroom for personal pics)
Google (Web’s best search engine)
HowStuffWorks (Easy-breezy explanations of how things work)
The Internet Movie Database (Encyclopedia of entertainment that covers some 800,000 films, television shows and video game titles)
Lifehacker (Computer-tech tips and tricks)
The Museum of Modern Art (A selection of museum tours as downloadable podcasts)
Netflix (More than 60,000 DVD titles available to rent)
National Public Radio (NPR podcasts, NPR music)
The Onion (Long before The Daily Show, long before Stephen Colbert, there was The Onion)
Rotten Tomatoes (Movie reviews from far and wide)
Shopzilla (New comparison shopping sites)
Technorati (Blog finder)
Television Without Pity (Bitingly funny TV show recaps)
The Smoking Gun (Continues to document interesting news)
Wikipedia (A real Web wonder, Massive, collaborative online encyclopedia)
Yahoo! (Arguably Google’s toughest competition for top Web property)
Zappos.com (Simply the best place to shop for shoes online)
For more & complete details Follow time.com
50 coolest websites of the world! How do they select the finalists? They evaluate hundreds of candidates, some suggested by readers, colleagues and friends, others discovered during countless hours of surfing. Many of this year’s choices are shining examples of Web 2.0: next-generation sites offering dynamic new ways to inform and entertain, sites with cutting-edge tools to create, consume, share or discuss all manners of media, from blog posts to video clips. You can also suggest a website to them by this link. Send your thoughts and they’ll post a selection of your comments online. There’s always next year they say.
In entertainment, arts and media category YouTube was also winner in 2006. Ofcourse Google is also in the winner search engines top list.
50 Coolest Websites 2006
50 Coolest Websites 2005
50 Coolest Websites 2004
50 Coolest Websites 2003
Apple Computers
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock.
CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.
Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Corel
The name was derived from the founder’s name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.
Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ‘Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’
Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.
Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ‘The Lotus Position’ or ‘Padmasana’. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.
Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.
ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.
Sony
It originated from the Latin word ’sonus’ meaning sound, and ’sonny’ a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.
SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.
Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos
