Bryan Person asks: Which 5 sites are most essential to your daily workflow? For work, the key sites for me are…

1) Google – I guess its the goto site for any question I might have.
2) .Mac mail – keeps me up with what I may have to do for my freelance clients once I get home from the day job.
3) iChat – Keeps me from having to walk all over creation to talk to colleagues or leave voice mail with colleagues that may be at meetings. Also, my freelance clients can find me if they need to talk real quick.
4) iTunes – This keeps me going all day, with music, audio podcasts and the occassional video podcast.
5) Schmedley.com – Starting to really like this site. Give me a whole lot of personalized info I may need at a moments notice.

Bonus?!? man. I had a hard enough time with just the first 5, and I think 3 of them don’t really count.

1) Twitterific – keeps me thinking all day long as it downloads interesting thoughts and questions from twitter. Thanks guys!
2) Woot.com – Gotta check it at least once a day.

I actually only have four, adn not all are open in browser tabs, but they are essential to my online life:

1. Yahoo Mail
2. Sage (lightweight feedreader)
3. Microsoft Live Writer 2.0 Beta (AWESOME for posting)
4. Twitter (most of the time)

usually open:

1) Google reader
2) Tab after tab of articles from my google reader that I want to read
3) Outlook
4) Wordpress
5) Twitter

Bonus:
1) You Tube. Funny cat videos and anything with Bernard the animated Polar Bear will appease the 23 month old
2) Trillian. I hop on when need to yap with h-band at work, otherwise try to stay off
3) Statty things like technorati, socialmeter, etc. seem to have faded for me
4) I use a lot of folders & dragged/dropped links in Firefox to organize workflow too. a little clunky.
5) For daily Twitterflix updates: Amazon/IMDB & a few other sites I use to pick quotes and create posts at http://Twitter.com/twitterflix

While I use LinkedIn frequently, and am edging my way gingerly into Facebook, they’re not 24×7 yet.

1. Gmail is my nerve center (it’s all scripted up with Greasemonkey, so it integrates my other favorites: Google Calendar, Google Reader, Remember the Milk and a nifty GTD Inbox application)
2. Twitter, for constant contact and ideas
3. Blogger (my central repository for 2 blogs & a podcast) for draft posts, which I can get to during other times of the day
4. Feedburner/Sitemeter/Libsyn for my stats
5. Desktop app: Outlook

It’s amazing how Google Reader (or any feedreader, for that matter) has changed my viewing habits. I could have listed 20 other sites that are part of my daily routine, but I realized that I only visit those sites after seeing their RSS feeds. It’s all about the reader these days.

My bonus 5:
1. Google Docs
2. My WordPress Bryper blog
3. Facebook
4. Libsyn
5. Feedburner

And holding down the No. 11 spot but having the potential to move up a notch or two in the next couple of weeks: iGoogle.

Bonus 5
1. Facebook
2. Feedburner
3. Typepad (blog)
4. CoComment (comment tracker)
5. Google Docs

What are your bonus five?

1. JibberJobber.com (first reason, to make sure the server isn’t down (!!), second reason, because I update info on my contacts throughout the day)

2. Gmail

3. My blog (I blog first thing in the morning and it just stays up as I usually refer to various posts throughout the day)

4. Twitter

… and from there, lots of surfing.

Jason Alba
CEO – JibberJobber.com
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