Notes and Thoughts on Grocery 2.0

I use a wide set of tools but here is a list of a few of my regular favorites to increase your productivity:

1. Quantcast – Very useful to get the demographics of a site. Also does a good job in finding similar sites or audiences.
2. Compete – A great tool to compare web sites and a very clean UI so shows well in power point presentations.
3. Google Insights – 65% of US internet users use Google to search so this tool helps you understand the detail behind a search term.
4. Google Analytics – There are lots of great web Analytic packages hard to compete with Google’s combination of features for the price: Free.
5. Google Sites – Need a quick place to organize the files for a meeting agenda or build a list for your team. Google sites is free and easy to customize.
6. Basecamp – It a great paid tool to collaborate on projects with if you have an external team. Very easy to set up and you can do it all with out anyone from IT needed.
7. Box.net -  Can’t get a large file to a co-worker or client? Use Box.net. First 1GB is free.
8. Remember The Milk – Is a killer To Do List that syncs to your mobile phone, google calendar, and you can email items to a list.