A mail from a Mind42 user reminded me that I haven’t posted anything for more than 6 months and that he was unsure about the future of Mind42. So here is the state of affairs:

Mind42 is a project (and kind of experiment) by Irian Solutions which I work for. At the moment I have to work on a lot of other things for my company, so there was no new stuff and is no new stuff in the making for Mind42. But of course it continues to live, and actually the user base grows pretty nice! That also lead to our 3rd server switch in the history of Mind42. New and stronger database server, and a new web-server (nginx instead of apache). I really like our new setup and I think it already pays of with faster response times and less downtimes.

Besides that I’ve done a new project which is publicly available. It started as an idea within Irian, but ended as a semi-private project of mine: Spaaze. It’s a virtual corkboard where you can organize all kinds of stuff. I use it on a daily base to keep track of all kinds of information I stumble upon during a day in the web. This means that when i stumble upon youtube videos (1 hour long google tech talks) or links I want to read later, or I hear a song in the radio look it up in iTunes, … - all this temporary stuff goes into my Spaaze, where I look at it later and then decide wether to keep the item on my corkboard or not. So it’s really a buffer for temporary information which I don’t want to store permanently in my browsers bookmarks and so on. On the other hand I keep track of permanent information in Spaaze. It’s like my own del.icio.us in a visual way, but additionally I keep todo lists in there and some youtube favorites and so on and so on. A screencast of how I use Spaaze is available on the page (which is a spaaze itself). Of course I hope that I can attract users with this service, but at the moment I’m the biggest user of Spaaze myself, and so I develop the features I need.

By the way: Spaaze implements OpenID, so if you have a Google or Yahoo account you don’t even have to sign up. Just sign in and give it a try. Maybe this concept of keeping track of information works for you as well.