Posting this blog entry to inventory the web apps that I have signed up for over the past year, and to provide a brief commentary on what I think of them.

1) Google – excellent offering for the price. $50 a year amd you get just about everything to run a virtual office, including collaboration.
2) Yahoo! – Premium email has undergone a major facelift and is a great location to integrate all thos ‘other’ email addresses one accumulates.
3) .Mac or .Me…. whatever – a control freak rip-off. Don’t buy it.
4) Salesforce – a great product, especially if you get the professional version, but too many restrictions on which devices can access from where; and the offline app and access costs more. Overall, a pricey service but worth it if youwant to get serious about relationship management.
5) MailChimp – Great application! Takes email marketing to another level with just a few clicks, and sets you apart from spammers with 100% opt-in compliance checks. Great forsendong out those introduction or mass emails that are taken from newsletter signup forms on web site pages. Also has features to create this web forms, auto-responders and a wholesome API for automating your web messaging. I use this ti touch base and send newsletters, then filter the strong hits and responses – then transfer those contacts to SalesForce for more personal follow-up.
6) DimDim – a great web conferencing software for the price, but they just (I mean ‘just’ today) got purchased by SalesForce… it was a great value for the price. We’ll see where it goes after April 2011.
7) ZenDesk – awesome support tracking and support forum software. WorkPapers.Pro uses this for support and support forums.
Skype – not sure if this applies as a web app, but my US phone number, which is tied into a toll free number, is a great tool, but I think Google Voice may be a better value when it finally comes to Japan.
9) VPS.Net – Definitely not a web app, but falls into that ‘virtual’ kinda thing. Great service, five nines operational virtual private servers that are scalable on the fly. About three months ago, we sent out a press release and had about 1600 registrations over two days…. not a single problem.
10) HootSuite – definitely a web app. This ties everything social into a single interface. A must-have tool if you have more than a couple social accounts and more than a couple thousand followers. It costs money now, but is worth it.
11) Ning.com – If you want to gather users into a single forum without blasting everything across the socialsphere, then create your own social network! Ning makes that happen. To do this right costs money, but it keeps your group private and social at the same time. Besides, I use Facebook almost exclusively for family and friends, don’t do farms, restaurants, and wars…..

If yoy have any questions about any of these apps, please send a comment.

On, on!!