I just got a great email.  This is an email that I have been officially anticipating for over two weeks, and unofficially for over two years.  On March 6th, 2008, Apple announced the iPhone SDK.  Since then, I’ve wanted to get in the game.  Well, today I receieved this email:

My first app just landed on the app store.  The app is a fairly simple idea: track your favorite sports teams, in real time, using social media.  People tweet about everything these days!  They tweet about movies, they tweet about books, they tweet about sports.  So why not keep track of what your teams are doing using twitter?  While you’re at it, why not post a pic of the game from your iPhone to flickr so people can share the experience with you?  That’s the idea, and the app is called Sportee. 

Sportee will let you track your favorite teams (and eventually favorite golfers, or drivers, or any athelete) in real time.  Watch the tweets roll in as they are tweeted. Join in the conversation by tweeting, retweeting or replying to other fans of your teams. View and add photos to the flickr feed for your teams. All the necessary tags or hashtags are added to your pics and tweets as they are uploaded. 

Today, I got in the game… and I called it Sportee.

Posted via web from oneadamtwelve

In case you don’t have it, you’ll need to install the Adobe Air runtime. You can get it here. I hope someone else out there can use it. Let me know what you think.

I was originally hired here to do implementations of EnergyCAP, our main product. But when I mentioned that I’d like to get involved with future web app development, I got my wish. For the past six months or so, I’ve been managing design and development of a product that will be released in September. I’m excited about it because it’s all I’ve done for six months, and it’s going to be fun to see what people think.

I can’t go into much, but I’ll say this. This product will allow home and small business owners the opportunity to track energy bills. With this information they can answer questions like:

• What is the actual cost of energy is for my home/office?
• How does the weather effect my energy usage?
• Were the new windows I had installed worth the money?
• How does my energy consumption compare to similar properties?
• Just how much Greenhouse Gas am I producing?

And on top of all this, it’s going to look great (I like to think of it as the GQ of Energy management), and free for end users.

Sounds good, huh? More soon…

Anyway, I’m looking at two great looking products. The first is OmniFocus. This is a really nice looking product. Very complete, with tons of features and a lot of flexibility in how you GTD. Based on OmniOutliner, which is also a very well designed tool.

The second is called Things. The nice thing about this product is that it is really well designed. The folks at Cultured Code definitely put a lot of thought into this great app. It looks great, it has nice features and even though it’s slightly more limited than OmniFocus, it’s still extremely usable.

The one thing that’s not included (yet) in Things is syncing. I’m hoping that this is done soon, but in the mean time, I heard about a great technology that makes syncing Things between Macs a snap. It’s called Dropbox.

This is very similar to .mac, however it syncs on the fly, instantly. So you have a folder called your Dropbox, and every time you copy a file to it, it automatically syncs it to the Dropbox servers. Then you can access your files from any machine (Mac or PC) or even via a web interface. Public files can even be accessed through a web link by anyone.

This is really great technology, but unfortunately it’s not quite ready for prime time yet. It’s still in beta and if you want to get a look at it, you need an invitation. I was lucky enough to get an invite from Eric Belanger, and now I have 10 invitations that I can pass on. So if you want to take a look at Dropbox, post a comment here. I’ll send invites to the first 10 to ask.

I’ll give my take on GTD apps next time.