Spy Journal 3.0 Filtering the web for you

We have been working a lot in Drupal lately.

Currently we have just completed a site (can't give details sorry) for a client that had very exacting requirements. We were very proud of the work we pulled off as a team and the client thanked us profusely. Here is what she wrote to us:

I just wanted to give you and your team a very BIG THANK YOU!!!! for everything you have done to getting this project complete and working so well!

She has two new jobs to pass to us. We received the first scope document yesterday.

This week we are featuring for the first time a profile of one of our Geek Girl Bloggers.

Geek Girl Profile -

Name: Allison Reynolds
Screen Name/s: Allison - AllisonR - Gramyre
Personal blog/s: http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/ and  http://www.netxperiment.com/wordpress
Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Seesmic, Flickr, UStream, friendfeed.
Other websites she is active in at times: deviantART, JustinTV.
Current Employment: A manager for a large multinational IT company.
Location: Australia

What is your motivation for blogging?

"I blog for several reasons - To make my online and offline projects public so I am accountable for their results, people seem to love watching other people "do" things. I blog because I have Multiple Sclerosis and writing keeps the neural pathways developing (use it or lose it!). And I blog because I like expressing myself in the medium, kind of like modern story telling, but making the truth sound interesting so that the people who read my blog get something out of it."

What is it that you find yourself blogging about, mostly the same things or does it vary?

Here is a round up of a lot of pages I have tagged in delicious or just decided to link to because of their content but don't have time to review in depth.

Mark from Geeks are Sexy has written a very good article on writing for the web using RSS and other tools to gather information and resources. A must read for any serious blogger.

Miguel from Tip of the Day has written a long explanation of the need to Make and Maintain a Master Information Document. Use this tool to hold all passwords, settings and other vital information that your executors and survivors will need when you die.

We wrote an article previously about various file sharing services.

I have come across several more since and will simply post them up as links with the details of what they offer below.

Service name	Need an account?	Need to be logged in to access files?	Maximum file size	Streaming of files	Other details
Box.net	Yes	No	File size 10Mb for free account and 1Gb for paid, maximum box size 1Gb for free account, 5Gb and 15Gb for paid accounts	No	can be accessed via email, integrates with MS Office 2003 and 2007, mobile access and phone support for paid accounts
Eat Lime	No	No	1G when registered	Yes	New video sharing version also
File Dropper	No	No	7 day trial - 50Gb $0.99 per month 5Gb $5 per month 50GB $10 per month 250Gb	No	Files are in public space - you share the link
File Mail	No	No	2Gb	No	Files are shared by uploading to server - and then the server emails your recipients with a link to download from
File Crunch	No	No	250Mb Unlimited storage	No	Supports file resuming
Windows Live Folder Share	Yes - Windows Live	Yes	2Gb		Works on Mac and PC Synchronise between PC and the internet

Updated 23 July 2008