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Lusting Over Web Apps – My List

Which web apps do you use that are a must have, for daily use, your "web app pron"?  Here is my list of apps I use on a daily basis and love:

gmail - gmail of course is my communication tool of choice when it comes to email.  great for using on any computer or my mobile device.  spam protection is top notch, love being able to use filters and labels.

google reader - helps feed my rss addiction.  the best in my mind when it comes to aggregating all my feeds with a great layout.  seems to be integrating with all my other apps as well i.e. disqus and twitter.  love it!

twitter - great way to keep up with my online friends, some offline friends.  share links, pics, blog posts, ect.  its just plain awesome.

friendfeed - friendfeed has been hot now for a month or two.  great way to keep up with all my peeps.  love the integration with all my services as well as all the greasemonkey scripts I can use to customize the service to my likings and needs.

disqus - awesome commenting service for you blog or for just commenting on blogs.  think it brings the social aspect to comments and gives them their own life.  as with the other apps love the integration with the services like friendfeed and wordpress.

toluu - like google reader toluu helps feed my rss addiction.  great service that helps i the discovery and sharing of rss feeds.  if you need an invite let me know as I have some.

wordpress - best blogging software out there!  I have been using it now for a few years and with all the plugins and widgets you can add on its just top notch.  I recommend this one to everybody.

flickr - use flickr to share all my pictures and pics I take with my phone.  just an overall great service that makes it simple to post and share pics.

google calendar - use mainly for the integration with twitter and remember the milk as well as with my mobile device to keep all my important events at my side and keep me from missing something i shouldnt.

remember the milk - this is an awesome service for keeping those task lists under control.  I just flat out love it and add integration with gmail, google calendar, twitter and my mobile device and that only makes it better.  very simple clean setup but very powerful at the same time.

Here are some apps that I have been messing around with that soon could also be up on the top list.

diigo - diigo is a new bookmarking service that adds some new stuff to the whole social bookmarking scene like highlighting text and such (or new to me hehe).  I have continued to use this service more and more and recommend you check it out.  its slowly growing on me.

ma.gnolia - another in the social bookmarking realm...i have heard of it for awhile but due to my love for del.icio.us never really gave it a try.  checking it out these days and might have to decide which to go with ma.gnolia or diigo.  time will tell but again a good service to check out for you social bookmarking geeks.

mixx - mixx is a social news site like one you may have heard of before called digg   its new to the game but i must say i find it a breath of fresh air when it comes to the social news scene.  will i stick with it?  not sure....with so many blogs I follow, shared links, and link blogs it seems like I get all the news I need via google ready and then can share with serices like friendfeed, rssmeme or readburner so I am not sure if this is my thing.  but I do endorse it over digg for whatever that is worth

del.icio.us - this one is one that in the past would have been on my top list.  i use to love del.icio.us and in some ways its like your kid its hard to let go...i still post to del.icio.us via diigo where i can post to multiple services but overall it seems like del.icio.us has just kinda disappeared....dont really hear much about new stuff and I am still waiting on the upgrade to v2.0 as well as it just seems like it has issues playing nice with some of the new social web services out there or I have had some issues in that regard...so I am keepig it around and still find it very useful but its kinda in a weird place for me right now

so there ya have it....some of the web apps I use on a daily and sometimes hourly basis...the ones I cannot live without and then some I see as possible futures centerfolds in the "web app pron" world

what are some of yours?  I am sure you will have one that I will be like ohhh yeah I use that one too...but lets share and maybe others can discover some kool web apps to play around with.