We live in a world of ever increasing ease and the wonderful world of technology can really help to make your life easier/lazier and it's such a shame when new applications don't take those few steps to help their users.
I've tried two newish web apps today, Scrapblog.com and Ficlets.com. Scrapblog looks like a place where you can create a presentation and share it on the web, but try not to think about Power Point, think funky young play things. It's pretty easy to use, but lacks some ease of use features like OpenID, nice URIs and RSS everywhere (it does have RSS, but you have to lunch some javascript to get to it, yuck).
You can see my first effort, my recent holiday to Nice, France here: http://www.scrapblog.com/viewer/Viewer.aspx?sbid=94841
Ficlets.com is a short story site where you're restricted to 1024 characters, but the community can write prequals and sequals, pretty neat. I dug out a few stories I wrote whilst at university and posted there (http://ficlets.com/authors/robb1e). This site is all web2.0ed up, brilliant. I'm loving the adopotion of OpenID and this site is easily navigatable with pretty URIs and lots of RSS everywhere.
There's lots to learn from Ficlets, let's carry on making it easier for users so we can all be lazy =)
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