Adisa McKenzie

This is the first of my monthly watch list. Each month I want to let people know about some of the cool products I come across.

TechCrunch.com: because I check it more than I check my own sites.

Google Voice: I have a number. This thing is magical. I have been beta testing it for a while now and it has been very useful to me. Right now there is a waiting list to get a number but I would check the site often to get one as soon as it’s available. Or check Techcrunch once per day and they will likely tell you.

Twitter: April has been the month for Twitter.

Google alerts: I typically love anything coming out of Google. This product is especially useful to the artist on the rise. You can have every occurrence of your name being used on the web emailed to you, or subscribe to an RSS feed.

FriendFeed.com: This product will allow you to send various posts to your twitter account. As an artist, you must keep your various pages up to date and it is difficult to post messages across many different sites. You can even have your Google alerts posted through FriendFeed to your Twitter account. “Real Gangster”.

Google Documents: If you are not using this, you are not taking complete advantage of the tools at your disposal. Note: you don’t have to create a gmail account to set up a Google Document account. You can use the email you are currently using.

As many of you know, I do much of the TripKnight web work. I just started setting up an account at OpenX.com – for serving ads across the network. TripKnight is about to roll out an ad compensation project to add incentives to those who work with us. I am currently using Google Ad Manager, and I might continue for some of the slots or select pages. One thing I am looking for in OpenX is speed of updates compared to Google Ad Manager. I don’t think it’s slow, but I’m curious how the two compare.