"The AppGap is a blog and resource on the future of work and how new tools are addressing age-old challenges of organization, collaboration, and creation. But it is also an idea: that there remains a gap between the toolset that exists and what’s needed. This site’s intent: to serve as a resource for shedding light on the tools, trends, processes, and practices that can help and provide a forum for related discussions. Its intended audience: those in organizations, small, medium, or larger, who are looking for guidance, hoping to keep their ear to the ground, and seeking out answers that help them do their work more efficiently and profitably. Here you’ll find commentary on effective tools and business practices, observations on emerging innovations, prognostications on where it’s all headed, reviews of new products, and pointers to tips, mash-ups, and the occasional amusing diversion."

"Readers here know that I have urged us, for a long time, to be quite careful about the talk of "recovery". I do not put much faith in a rising Dow since that is, in my opinion, mainly a game of a bunch of traders trying to jump in and out of short-term profit-taking. I say this because there can be no meaning to a recovery when almost one in five people do not have full-time, real work--the almost 10 percent the media dutifully report as "unemployed" plus the additional ten percent of the workforce that has given up looking for work, works only part-time because full-time work cannot be found and the vast number of people who work for the poverty-level minimum wage."

Blog describing the "Crossover of the Web with Real Life!" Edited by Aaron Brazell

Using social media to guide and help you connect to social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, YouTube using social media

"this service is way overhyped and as people start to use it they will realize it brings the worst of email and IM together: unproductivity. See, the first thing you notice is that you can see people chatting live in Google Wave. That’s really cool if you are working on something together, like a spreadsheet or a Word document. But it’s a productivity sink if you are trying to just communicate with other people. It also ignores the productivity gains that we’ve gotten from RSS feeds, Twitter, and FriendFeed."