Favorite Site For Web Freelance Workers Part 1 – Crowdspring

Crowdspring is a fantastic place for web freelance workers together, discuss issues in working from home, spec work pros and cons, and most importantly – get work! You can make a living doing spec work, if you use smart web applications like Crowdspring. Don’t rely on just freelancing, moving from gig to gig – get a simple process in place, and apply that process again and again to apply for as many web freelance Crowdspring assignments as possible. It doesn’t hurt to apply to a lot of them – so long as your quality of work is consistent and high!

Another way of looking at it is this: you can use Crowdspring as your own personal web design resource. Need a quick logo for a larger project, but don’t want to put in a ton of hours? Post the job to Crowdspring and have thousands of pro web designers and developers work on it for you! You can have single pages designed/coded, graphics created, logos (great logos at Crowdspring) – pretty much anything. Turn around is quick, you have people competing to do your work for you, and its not expensive! make sure you read the terms and conditions to make sure you can resell the items you commission on Crowdspring.

What is Chrome OS – AKA the Google OS for Web Computing

What is Chrome OS? If you use the Google Chrome browser, you know that its targeted for those users (I myself am one) who do work, make notes, write blogs and do programming all on the web – in the cloud in other words, rather than on old style applications that reside on you computers hard drive. The newly announced Google Chrome Operating System promises to be the OS for working in the cloud – it is primarily aimed at netbooks, which depend on cloud computing for most if not all of their appeal.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Will you use Google Chrome? The answer for me is heck yeah! I think this is the technology that will finally remove us from being chained to our PCs – now computing will be netbook-to-smart-phone-back-to-netbook, and repeat as needed.
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Wordpress 2.8 Released

Wordpress 2.8 is now out, and the changes are fairly minor. There have been changes to the XML-RPC code, which could affect you or application you use to remotely post to Wordpress.
From Blog Herlad

Matt Mullenweg has announced the release of WordPress 2.8, available for download from wordpress.org as always, but also in your up to date WordPress install by automatic update. If you haven’t followed the beta talk, you’ll note that it is visually the same as the previous version, but a lot faster thanks to code improvement. It also featured a new widget interface that greatly improves the usage, as well as giving themes the same update and install treatment as plugins. Speaking of themes, if you’re one of those mad people who edit them right in the browser, you’ll like the code syntax added to these things. There is also new screen options on a per page basis, and a ton of bugs are ironed out.

Why Google Wave Is Going To Change What You Do On The Web

Google Wave, which was just in the last week introduced to the world at the Google I/o 2009 Conference, is basically a new email/IM client. So why is Google Wave going to change the way you use your computer every single day? At work, at home, on your mobile device.
Remember how GMail changed email by making the email threads look like a conversation? Well Wave, just for starters, is going to turn everything into a conversation. Want to email? Want to IM, want to share photos? You can do it, in the browser, in real time,with Google Wave. That may not sound that groundbreaking – but seriously, watch the first 10 minutes or so of this video from the Google Wave presentation at the Google I/O Convention. Google Wave was created by the brother who created Google maps, and the best part of Google Wave is the API promises to be much like the Google Maps API, which is a developer favorite due to its low learning curve and ease of use. That’s just the first set of features from Google Wave, which is in closed Beta right now. To sign up for Google Wave Beta, go to the Google Wave signup page.