Comments on: What works: Five Web 2.0 products I still use

Even crusty Web reviewers develop long-term relationships with products. Rafe Needleman shares his favorites of late.

[josmor]

You need to check all the apps from Acrobat.com
For example, connectnow is a very good one for making online meetings + screensharing.

[jag0]

If you want something that is flashy but still powerful for an IM client...check out Digsby. It allows you to login with all the standard IM clients plus Facebook, Facebook chat, MySpace, Twitter, email accounts, etc.

It may be in beta but it is very solid and has crashed on my maybe twice and I've been using it for a few months.

[millerncc1701]

If NetVibes isn't doing it for you anymore, try Bloglines. I find it much better than anything else out there and it has a nice lite mobile version too!

[aschek]

Rafe, I can't believe you are getting rid of NetVibes.. it is so much powefull than iGoogle. I have 5 tabs that are full, and speed is not an issue... the login process, yeah, I have to agree, but why is this a reason to get rid of it.... ?

In regards to Trillian, I am with you.... and Pidgin is very nice, also, for IM you really only need chat capabilities, all that skinning, gaming and BS is just so 1990

Rock on.
Alex

[TV James]

Yeah, I have to throw in my recommendation for Digsby as well. I use it on 2 XP computers, and while not officially supported, it took me all of five minutes to figure out how to get it to run on an old 2000 machine as well. Solid performer, small footprint and I love the ability to see, at a glance, the inbox counts for 8 email boxes (everything but work) plus Facebook's inbox, as well the ability to chat with everyone on Y!, MSN, AOL and Facebook all at once -- with consolidated entries so that I don't have to care which network they're on. Awesome. Also, the ability to update Twitter (which has been blocked at work) is cool.

[AndrewRich]

I'm also very close to done with Trillian. On Windows, I'll probably give Pidgin another try. On the Mac, I'm on iChat with the Chax plugin.

[rshah29]

Two that I use:

1. SugarSync - the best sync engine ever
2. Gramlee.com - online editing services for everyone

[spylogic]

I use www.ubernote.com vs. evernote. The online tools are much better

[WeCanDoBIZ]

I have been using Trillian for probably 8 years and it hasn't changed much, but then I don't need much from IM (other than to log in to 3 Live IM accounts simultaneously). I have found it to have a much smaller footbrpint than Digsby, although the latter looks a lot neater and supports stuff like Facebook.

Evernote I like but hardly use. I am a fan of iGoogle though and the BeTwittered widget is useful, as are the RSS readers I have to keep me up on news and various forum entries.

I am never out of WeCanDo.BIZ for obvious reasons... ;-)

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

[nspire91]

You should check out quasitime.com. It's still in Beta but I think the interface is the best I've seen around. It sets a new standard for web 2.0 applications.

[stigmattaman]

One more for Digsby - excellent multi-platform IM app