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Susan - Feb 20, 2008 in Entrepreneurs, Freelancing | 8 Comments

I don’t know about all of you, but I never get to read all the stuff that’s in my RSS every day. It’s too crazy how often Lifehacker updates. I can keep up with the once a day posters, but my BoingBoing feed is a lost cause. I’d love to find some new blogs about small business, but I have no clue when I’d squeeze that into my day…somewhere between my phone calls where I’m simultaneously answering emails, maybe? Yeah. Not ideal.

A few weeks ago, Shane was all, “Pssst. I’m working on something cool.” So of course I’m all, “Your wife is pregnant?” Well, no. But until the human baby makes an appearance, he’d been putting intense work into another baby: Sproutwire.

I shamelessly love the Shane and Peter blog as it is, so I was intrigued to hear there was another project in the works. And it’s so genius, and created by a group that specializes in UI anyway, I’m just geekily excited to be in on the beta. The site is called Sproutwire, and it will serve as a hub for articles related to small business, vetted and served up to you on a gorgeous Sproutwire silver-platter-like-designed site every single day.

For people like us that can’t get enough reading about small business, this is a Godsend.

You know what else is a Godsend? ME. (I’ve always wanted to be able to say that.) As a reader of my blog, and because Shane is one of my blogosphere homeboys, you can get a sneak peek at the beta launch as well. Follow this link, input your email and you’re in line for when they lift the veil on the beta version this Friday.

See? You knew there was a reason you came here. So go. Now. Do I need to say it again? Go sign up for Sproutwire beta, fool!

8 Comments...

Judd Exley on February 20th, 2008 said:

Godsend? Truly.
It’s about damn time you showed that you have some idea of how awesome you are.

I mean really, flex every once in a while in front of a mirror, or wink at us or something.

Off to Sprout now… man did that sound kind of dirty.
Michael Carnell on February 20th, 2008 said:

I got first comment!

Anyway, this sounds like a very cool site. So they are go to cull and distill all the far too many feeds I have? Yes? No? Maybe?
Susan on February 20th, 2008 said:

@Judd: Isn’t part of my charm my utter humbleness?

@Michael: Heh, sorry dude…Judd had first, he just got tangled in the comment moderation web. I’m really hoping that Sproutwire will help drastically cut back my feeds. I’ll be interested to see how many articles show up on there that are already in my feed…I’m assuming (hoping?) there will be overlap so I can get rid of some of ‘em.
Michael Carnell on February 20th, 2008 said:

I was robbed. I am going to go sulk now.
Susan on February 20th, 2008 said:

Not only that, you were robbed by an Australian. We can just chalk it up as unfair advantage due to his time difference.
Michael Carnell on February 21st, 2008 said:

Not coool at all. I think you just liked him better because he was sprouting.
susan on February 22nd, 2008 said:

Aren’t you going to Sprout, Michael? All the cool kids are doing it!
Michael Carnell on February 22nd, 2008 said:

Hey! My kids better not be doing it. Am I going to have a talk with them?

I can hear my speach now… If all the other bloggers jumped off the server, would you jump off too?