Miranda IM
WindowBlinds
Firefox
Chatsum
Netvibes
ITunes
Soulseek

Yeah, that’s pretty much the fundamentals. I’ve cyphened through the web several times and filtered out the good from the bad, and this is what i came up with. Well, besides virus software and such.

Comment by third — January 28, 2006 @ 12:36 am

del.icio.us - For storing and sharing bookmarks
tadalist.com - for keeping some general todo list
Wordpress - for managing our blog
Mac.com - Transfering files and syncing my work and home computer
Webstat.com - Tracking traffic on our site
Citibank.com - online banking (i’d label this as a web app)

Hmm, it seems that for someone who is into web applications I don’t use too many in my daily life…maybe i’m forgetting a bunch…

Comment by Ben — January 28, 2006 @ 12:38 am

Bloglines
GMail

Comment by Abhishek Goyal — January 28, 2006 @ 12:54 am

Backpack - as my home page/to-do list
Bloglines - for reading this and other RSS feeds
Gmail - for email
Rollyo - for searching specific sites
Google Analytics - for statistics (I haven’t gotten an invite to MeasureMap yet)
Flickr- for picture storage and sharing
del.icio.us - for sharing and storing bookmarks
Basecamp - to manage a couple of small projects
.Mac - for very little actually, I was hoping when I signed up that the calendar functionality was better
Odeo - to manage all of my podcast subscriptions (I download them into iTunes to listen)
Facebook - not really “Web 2.0″ but I was basically forced to do this one
Wordpress - to manage my personal blog (their hosted solution, I run my other one on Textpattern)
Feedburner - to roll my feeds for me

Comment by Dan Perdue — January 28, 2006 @ 2:01 am

blogbridge - okay a java client, but I use the sync feature so the powerbook and thinkpad both know what I’m reading/have read
del.icio.us - bookmarking across computers, tagging helps me remember “where I put it”
feedburner - rolling and tracking feeds from my blogs
flickr - the slideshows rock, so does having offsite storage of hi-res images
gmail - use this account mainly for listservs
pubsub - generate feeds from search strings to keep up with topics across blogs/news stories
rollyo - search two subject matter lists I set up

Comment by J Spadafora — January 28, 2006 @ 3:45 am

del.icio.us - managing, accessing, and sharing bookmarks.
wordpress - helping to post items of interest on uneasysilence.
wordpress.com - because i keep procrastinating and pushing back the the idea of creating a real personal blog (finally planning for this week).
flickr - pictures (anything else needed?)
myspace - sad to admit, but it’s rude to ignore messages.
bloglines - rss needs when i’m away from home and feeddemon. [used to use searchfox.]
gmail - everyone needs a little email.

there are a handful more i could go on and on about but these are the links that open each time i start firefox.

Comment by .derek — January 28, 2006 @ 3:49 am

wait… sorry for the double comment, i forgot to mention my tagworld account as well (the next myspace if you will).

Comment by .derek — January 28, 2006 @ 3:51 am

Ta-Da List - Because it only does what it does. BackPackit is too much. This is perfect. Clean, quick, painless.

del.iciou.us - basically the same reasons as ta-da list. I love when apps do what they’re designed for, and nothing else.

dictionary.com - I’d be lost without it.

Comment by Brad — January 28, 2006 @ 5:22 am

Bloglines - RSS reader for desktop and Pocket PC
Gmail and Yahoo! mail - both for various purposes
BlinkList/Simpy - aids my failing memory and helps keeps some of my web pages current. Wish I could choose just one.
PodNova - aggregate my podcasts into one feed for the BlogLines reader
NetVibes - my past rss reader and still a contender (but I wanted pocket pc readability)
Wordpress ’cause I figure my blog is a web app.
Google Analytics - I’m a stats junky and this is a fun app to play with.

Comment by Chris — January 28, 2006 @ 5:23 am

* bloglines - because it whas the first and I haven’t find a reason to switch
* MovableType - WP is neat, but I like MT’s template language
* Google - Always trough Firefox’s Searchbox or addressbar
* GMail - Not for common email, but for groups. It’s threading feature is excellent.
* Writely - The best web 2.0 app. Ever.
* Flickr - Photo junkie
* del.icio.us - Don’t really know why, I rarely revisit my bookmarks.
* Backpack - For writing lists

btw: Great Blog!

Comment by sosa — January 28, 2006 @ 5:25 am

- Desktop apps
Firefox
Thunderbird
Miranda
Hello

- Web apps & sites
News Alloy RSS Reader (http://www.newsalloy.com)
del.icio.us
Google
imdb
Basecamp
Amazon
price.ru

Comment by Michael — January 28, 2006 @ 6:18 am

*GMail
*blinklist
*trendmicro’s virus scanner
*live365/pandora for music in hotels
*calendars.net to keep my schedule
*netvibes to keep up with blogs
*webshots/flikr
*wikipedia
*wordpress
*blueletterbible.com

Comment by Rich G. — January 28, 2006 @ 6:28 am

Wordpress
Google Reader
Feedburner
Delicious
Digg
Newsvine
Google Analytics (I’d rather have Measure Map, can’t get an invite.)
Technorati
Tech.Meme
Wikipedia

Comment by Sean McBride — January 28, 2006 @ 8:46 am

GMail
Bloglines
Meebo
Yahoo!
Hotmail
Technorati

Comment by Vijay — January 28, 2006 @ 11:18 am

Gmail
Bloglines
Dotclear (my weblog engine, version 2.0 will be launch in a few weeks, stay tuned, it could be a wordpress killer…)
Yahoo! calendar (good enough)
Flickr (excellent usability, great community)
Del.icio.us (and populicious)
Wikipedia (rich and updated content)
Technorati
Google (powerfull search)
Ask.metafilter (clever community)
Rssmix (great for creating rss compilations…)
ebay (number of items and customers)

Comment by vincent — January 28, 2006 @ 11:42 am

Backpack
Basecamp
flickr
Google Analytics
Netflix
pandora
Side Job Track
Time Tracker
Writely
Gmail
Google Homepage (http://www.google.com/ig)
textpattern

Comment by cody lindley — January 28, 2006 @ 3:01 pm

- Flickr (paid for a pro account)
- WordPress
- del.icio.us
- Digg
- Gmail (POP only though)
- Mint
- MeasureMap (will likely just use Mint if MM turns into a paid-for service)

Have gone back to paper for to-do lists although I think Tadalists was the best web solution.

Comment by Mary-Ann Horley — January 28, 2006 @ 5:10 pm

Fiwishop.com
technorati.com
guykawasaki.com
skype
local.google.com
gmail
inc.com
entrepreneur.com

Comment by Marc — January 28, 2006 @ 6:25 pm

delicious
gmail
google reader
digg

Comment by theCreator — January 28, 2006 @ 8:14 pm

gmail
yahoo
digg
/.
flickr
del.icio.us
itunes
firefox

Comment by mfwic — January 28, 2006 @ 8:25 pm

del.icio.us
gmail
digg
technorati
icerocket
safari
and of course as being the founder I use Seekum as my search engine.

Comment by Michael Whitney — January 29, 2006 @ 4:16 am

Gmail - gross interface, but I love the conversations feature, and the search don’t sort mentality
flickr - super easy, vibrant community
Moveable Type - for my blog, it’s a great CMS IMHO
digg - social news, not sure if it’s an app but others put it as well
ShortStat - my site’s stats package, good enough for me and free.
Backpack - To Do lists, work project tracking, scrapbook-like uses as well

Comment by Charles — January 29, 2006 @ 7:37 am

Google
Gmail
Diggdot.us
priberam.pt/dlpo
Wikipedia
m-w.com

For to-do lists I use paper, and the calendar Im actually using Active desktop calendar, but im really tempted to change to a web-app, to be able to access it not only on one computer, but i dont know any.

Comment by AntonioPratas — January 29, 2006 @ 1:34 pm

Google
Slashdot -Science/Tech news
Theregister - Tech news
Howstuffworks - General browsing
physlink - Latest happenings in Physics
Wikipedia - General browsing.

Slashdot and google are the two sites I use the most. You must be knowing why !

Comment by Squire — January 29, 2006 @ 3:59 pm

Basecamp - Great tool for managing and tracking projects with multiple developers.

Bloglines - Good RSS reader that doesn’t do everything I would like, but lets me access my feeds from any computer.

Del.icio.us - Bookmarking across all browsers and computers.

Digg - Good way to get some interesting tech info.

Gmail - E-mail. Nuff said.

Hotmail - Makes a good “throw-away” e-mail address.

Remember the Milk - Great to-do list with enough features to do what you want and a great, easy and fun to use interface.

Slashdot - More tech news.

Comment by Tom S. — January 29, 2006 @ 5:16 pm

LibraryThing — can’t believe I forgot to list that one.

Comment by J Spadafora — January 29, 2006 @ 7:42 pm

* Clipmarks - clipmarks.net : For finding and sharing great information on the web.

* Stumble Upon - http://www.stumbleupon.com : For mindnumbing surfing, ‘discovering’ great sites i would never have found myself (stumbling in a specific topic is recommended)

* Sage (FF Extension) : as an integrated RSS-reader in Firefox

* Scrapbook (FF Extension) : for saving, annotating, commenting and help remembering specific information on my computer

* Digg, Delicious, Delirious, Blink and such I use just as RSS-feeds, to discover interesting stuff.

* Google and Clusty as search engines (actually i prefer Clusty)

* Gmail (as an account in my emailclient The Bat)

Comment by Djiezes — January 29, 2006 @ 8:51 pm

Gmail - To reduce spam of work address

Billmonk - Organising payments between friends for 2006 worldcup.

Diggdot.us - News for the mornings

Basecamp - Client manager

YouTube - Increasingly getting visits for funnies

Pandora - A MUST. Haven`t turned this off since day 1.

Firefox - Web development and browsing

IE 6 - Testing only

istockphoto.com - For stock photography

SiteSuite - Our companies CMS system, what can I say its been my job for 5 years now

Comment by theBag — January 30, 2006 @ 12:31 am

Firefox
Thunderbird
IE (testing)
Flickr
Textpattern
Bloglines

Comment by Wout — January 30, 2006 @ 9:15 am

GMail
Google
Wordpress
Typo3

Desktop-Apps for the Net:
Firefox
Thunderbird
RSS-Bandit

Comment by Roland — January 30, 2006 @ 9:59 am

Short list in no particular order …

Apps:
Firefox
Netvibes
LastFM
iTunes
Google
feedburner
Yahoo! Mail Beta
Yahoo IM
Blogger
Technorati
Atom
hold-em poker apps ;)

Daily Reading:
GoodMorningSiliconValley
A VC
Dion’s Web 2.0 Blog
Planet Ajaxian
TechCrunch
I, Cringely
Read/WriteWeb
WeBreakStuff
Web 2.0 Explorer
Emily Chang
Searchblog
BeeLog
BuzzMachine
Guy Kawasaki
Due Diligence
gapingvoid
Blogdex
New York Times
BBC News
countless others …

About to start:
Newsvine
Tadalist

Potential:
new blogging software

Comment by George Nimeh — January 30, 2006 @ 11:11 am

Gmail
Netvibes
Digg
del.icio.us
Google Analytics
Wordpress
Firefox & Opera

And alot more i only use now and then :)

Comment by Chris R. — January 30, 2006 @ 2:58 pm

Del.icio.us
GMail
Google
LiveJournal

Comment by Straw — January 30, 2006 @ 5:39 pm

Guys, thanks for the wonderful response to my request for comments. You all rock!

Comment by Fred — January 30, 2006 @ 6:23 pm

I use:

http://www.netvibes.com
http://gmail.google.com
http://www.wordpress.com
http://www.joomla.com
http://www.CalendarHub.com
http://www.flickr.com
http://www.pxn8.com/
http://del.icio.us
http://www.writely.com
http://www.newsvine.com
http://www.librarything.com
http://www.metawishlist.com
http://www.pingomatic.com
http://www.stikipad.com
http://www.blogger.com

Comment by Rusty — January 30, 2006 @ 7:56 pm

Writely.com - school, blogging, work
Gmail - love the filters and Web Clips
RSSFwd.com - not really an app, but comboes great w/Gmail
meebo.com - instant messaging AJAX style
del.icio.us - nearly 700 bookmarks, I’m addicted
leve1.com - my digg replacement
NetVibes - my third rss reader, always open
Technorati/Wikipedia/Google - the search trifecta

Comment by Kenneth Jr — January 31, 2006 @ 9:26 am

Using Regularly:
Typepad- Blogging
Technorati
Icerocket
Pingomatic
Swickr- Tag Cloud
Google Ads- Advertising
Link Share and Commision Junction- Affiliate Programs
Macromedia Contribute- for my 2 websites
Value Web- Web Hosting
1&1- Web Hosting and Domain Registration

Taking a serious look at:
Squarespace- Blogging
Wordpress- Blogging
Yahoo Publisher Network- Advertising
Newsvine- Citizen Journalism

In a nutshell, I am looking at integrating more my websites and blog(s).
I am considering using blog software to revamp my websites and give them more flexibility.

Serge
Blog:
http://sergetheconcierge.typepad.com
Websites:
http://www.njconcierges.com
http://www.montclairconcierges.com

Comment by Serge Lescouarnec — January 31, 2006 @ 6:06 pm

2ndSite - for invoicing my clients
Campaign Monitor - email
made my own blog

Desktop apps:
Awasu - rss reader
Firefox

Comment by KathyD — January 31, 2006 @ 6:22 pm

Google
del.icio.us
Lilina
Wordpress
Amazon
Ebay

Comment by joao — February 1, 2006 @ 1:51 pm

plaxo.com - to synch my work calendar, contacts and tasks
wordpress.org - blogging
firefox and umpteen extensions
flickr.com - photos
del.icio.us - bookmarks
technorati.com - blog searching and browsing
google.com/reader - rss reader
google for everythnig else

Comment by Aditya Naik — February 1, 2006 @ 5:03 pm

Firefox - one browser to rule them all (tho IE is there for testing, too)
Google - satisfy the search need
Gmail - all my email, all the time, easily searchable
Bloglines - not great, but functional for keeping up on news
del.icio.us - tagging makes it all “findable”
StatCounter - free and practical site statistics
NetworthIQ - keeping me financially accountable
stock.xchng (sxc.hu) - free stock photography that’s excellent
iTunes - playlists, burning and ripping made easy
Digg - news, though the churn rate is a bit too high and the quality varies
Basecamp - ease-of-use, simple, elegant project/task management
Blogger - personal blogging, again, just simple and easy, though the design could use some work

Thanks for the post … it’s been insightful reading all of the replies to this. I’ve discovered a number of other web apps that might soon be added to my list.

Comment by Alsymer — February 1, 2006 @ 5:06 pm

Gmail- daily use for all business communications
Movable Type- For publishing my personal blogs
WordPress-For publishing my business blogs
Firefox- the best
Bloglines- sucks up to much of my time
del.icio.us- for all of my bookmarks
Google Analytics- It’s Free
Pandora- Great music discovery
MeasureMap- Great for a quick look at your blog stats
Google- I almost forgot this one

Comment by Chris Mullins — February 1, 2006 @ 7:53 pm

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Hotmail
Nikerunning.com Training Log
AllofMP3
Huntington Online Banking
LiveJournal
MySpace
CF-TALK
m-w.com

Comment by Chris Peters — February 3, 2006 @ 5:54 am

http://google.com - search, personal portal, rss reader
http://sitekreator.com - business web site
http://gmail.com - mail

Comment by Peter Gallun — February 4, 2006 @ 5:13 am

just wanted to add a new service that i’ve just started using which i know will be a daily tool.

cocomment - a centralized comment tracking service for the entire blogosphere.

Comment by .derek — February 5, 2006 @ 6:20 pm

Don’t forget http://www.vojosalsa.com - an excellent tool.

Comment by John — February 8, 2006 @ 3:22 am

vojosalsa.com. I second that..

HAHA. it took me a while.

Comment by derek — February 8, 2006 @ 7:13 am

Firefox with sage rss plugin
kaboodle for kablogging
google desktop for notes, to do
43things for collab
eBay
frontpage2003 because I have it
hopefully a Ruby on Rails Host

Comment by Colin Fitz-gerald — February 10, 2006 @ 10:27 pm

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Pingback by links for 2006-02-11 at HawkEye — February 11, 2006 @ 8:19 pm

Gmail and Google Reader, the only ones I use frequently. Almost every day really.

Comment by Ben — February 24, 2006 @ 11:51 am

On an hourly basis:
Pandora
Google Reader
30 Boxes
My Blog

Not on an hourly basis, but frequently:
del.icio.us
Youtube
Google Video

Comment by Sam — February 24, 2006 @ 5:20 pm

Backpack, personal and juniors
Basecamp, corp admin
Stikipad, trying it now
Gmail
Typepad
Netvibes
last.fm
Myspace, band
Purevolume, band
tagworld, band
del.icio.us
ClaimID, trying out
Feedburner
Flickr, not THAT useful for me

Comment by Bruce Prokopets — March 3, 2006 @ 10:47 pm

interesting

Comment by Timotheos — June 6, 2007 @ 7:47 pm