2009: Products I Can’t Live Without
I don’t know why I ended up on TechCrunch today, the website is not on my daily feed reading list, but after seeing this blogpost by Michael Arrignton, containing the 4-year table of products he “can’t live without”…
I couldn’t happen to reply with my own list of web products and startups I will need to survive in 2009, so, without further ado, here is the top web services and hyped products I can’t live without:
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That’s right, I don’t need ANY. How can someone list Digg as an essential website to maintain life going on is beyond my understanding. I mean, Digg???? C’mon!…
Ok, it was just an exagerated headline, maybe even a joke and MA doesn’t really meant that(or did he?) I know that. But it does show how people need to put some things into perspective. Here is an example:
Some are for work (Wordpress, Delicious, Zoho, etc.), some are for fun (MySpace Music, Hulu, etc), and some are useful for both (Digg, Skype, YouTube, etc.). But I use most of them every day, or nearly every day, and I would not be as productive or happy without all of them.
Wait, so Youtube, Digg, Facebook, FriendFeed, Animoto and Twitter are tools that help with productivity?? Holly shit!! We might just have foud the cure for ADD!!
I can understand the happiness part though, some people just don’t have a girlfriend or a family and to fill the gap I am grateful that Facebook and Coupa Café exists, otherwise their life would be miserable ;)
Don’t get me wrong, I too use a bunch of this services nearly every day, they are interesting, fun and even useful (Google and Wikipedia anyone?), but if the web ended tomorrow I wouldnt be jumping from the Bay Bridge, It would be a total bummer and I would be very sad, I would lose a bunch of stuff that I consider important, but I would continue living my life after it with no problem, maybe even get a job on a Fast Food restaurant and go fishing on weekends.
Last year I have learned the hard way that there is life without Gmail, and even without Google whatsoever, our parents and grandparents used to have perfectly good lifes and even achieve great things without overhyped companies and easy funding. So please, turn off your iphone for a while and go have a tea in the park for me, ok? And take Robert Scoble with you if possible =)
