Catchafire uses the web to match people's skills with better volunteer opportunities. This seems like a great way to have our students connect to organizations in meaningful ways. They create a profile, try to match with an organization, and then give their skills. This seems more powerful than just showing up, getting trained quickly on some small task, and doing it. Now, many times that is just what an organization needs, and so we can give that. But with the technical skills our students have, shouldn't we expect more of them in their community service work?

Do you ever need to share a few photos (or a bunch) with people and don't know how to do it? The website http://min.us should cure what ails you. Just drag pictures onto the site, grab the link, and send off to someone. Genius.

What a beautiful concept and executed product. AirDropper lets you ask someone to send you a file, gives them a web interface for doing so, an automatically lands the thing in your DropBox account. If you're not using DropBox, why not? It's amazing. It lets you have 2gb of storage space free (or more if you pay) and syncs that space up on any computers you own. Automagically.

DropBox is a product that I'm coming to realize I couldn't live without.