Lowjack for your usb devices - iHound

I’m marking this as a trend here, i believe that pissed off people such as Mat will one day make tracking every single item on earth convenient and do-able by satellites and what not.

Apparently no matter how far we go in the area of technology there is always someone doing something really interesting here, the reason that i blogged about this was that this is indeed a developing trend and I am almost sure that we’ll see some more tracking related startups soon that target more then just the usb industry, maybe online scripts? maybe music? (my bet is that vbulletin might be going for tracking systems for their software)

It would be interesting if there was a tracking system for everything that webmasters use to make money such as ebooks and little money making scripts as well. i know well that there is always encryption and the more complicated tracking servers too, I think there just might be a startup like that, that would allow tracking for ebooks, documents, php/asp scripts and stuff we do on a daily basis.

Trying out RescueTime - Gotta optimize sometime..

If optimizing sites for a living isn’t enough i’m gonna go ahead and see how productive i am, lately i signed up at Rescuetime which just came out of beta, what it does is.

• Tracks what urls and applications you are using on the pc.
• Collects the data on your pc
• Sends it back to their site
• And then its ready to be tagged and sorted out

You can tag certain urls and applications and  activities such as  work,fun,research,blogging,dp forum…blah blah blah

I suppose at somepoint you as a manager are at fault by not putting in enough time into your sites/projects, at least thats my way of thinking, everything in online development is a variable its up to you how you control it, here are some of them.

1. Site Concept
2. Scripting/Coding
3. Design and Research
4. Optimization
5. Monetization
6. Publicity
7. Advertising
8. Marketing
9. Server/Backend hardware
10. Maintenance
11. Statistics
12. And now myself.

I’m gonna give it a try for a week or so, and see just how much time i waste in misc stuff.
The reason im expanding my reach on variables in development is my recent find on how the oddest of things can cause the biggest effects, and a proper webmaster has to see all sides of the scenario before making any haste decisions on the project, concentrating on just one point never works, no matter how good you are at it.