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Ever since starting with Zenbe, I’ve found myself feeling refreshed and newly invested in the web community - so much to the point that I can’t pick a singular thing to blog about tonight.

So, I’ll mention them all. First up is a site called Mint, which is just brilliant. You sync up your bank account info with them and they put your finances together in a spectacular array of animated bar graphs and pie charts. It also helps you manage your budget and find ways to save expenses. It’s also full of cute little statistics like the Starbucks data to the left (which apparently helps you realize you went a little crazy with the lattes). I’m a total nerd for this stuff, and the app, which is built in Flex, is smooth and responsive in ways which almost make me feel like a fool for sticking with this javascript stuff.

Besides Mint, there’s also a lot of other applications of all types that have been coming around. First, Versions is finally out, and it’s quickly found it’s way into my ‘most used apps’ list. There’s also 280 slides, which does amazing things with web-based presentation tools; Fluid, which turns any website into a self-running webkit-based application; a youtube/last.fm mashup, and more. Much more.

Firefox 3 is settling in, and every day I find something new I like about it. Today, I read an article that confirmed my beliefs that the new Firefox has fixed the memory leak problem which would often cause me headache. I also read about some of Firefox’s new css features and was stoked to see support for inline-block elements, in particular. It really makes me wish Firefox 2 just go off and die already… as bad as that sounds.

There’s some new things personally as well. I’ve decided to rejoin the twitter community. We have an awesomely made new feature on zenbe for twitter, and it makes twittering really convenient, so we’ll see how it all turns out. I’ve hooked it up to the sidebar, along with my tumblr accout, which I just love. Their pre-sets for media types are really clever, and it’s just fun and totally random.

I’ve also been working on some old ideas and some new ones - including a new method for analyzing your iTunes data, which I’m real excited about. It involves a lot of pie charts and bar graphs. Hopefully animated ones.

So expect more soon. New York is beautiful in the summer, and I’m feeling more productive than ever.