It's come to this already! Someone I know is shutting his company's doors: Rael Dornfest, once an O'Reilly man about town and conference organizer, and fine, fine fellow, has sold the intellectual property of his firm Values of n to Twitter, and will be joining them as an employee.
Values of n ran two Web applications for reminders and notes: I Want Sandy and Stikkit. I Want Sandy was a reminder service where you could have the eponymous Sandy send you email, SMS, Tweets (via Twitter), and other forms of communication for reminders. Stikkit was a somewhat intelligent sticky note Web app that let you enter freeform and lightly structured data to keep track of stuff without having to launch separate contact/notes/calendar/email programs to pull it together.
Rael, a quintessentially good guy in my experience with him, noted in the farewell post that both services have a variety of ways to export data; that Stikkit has a full API that can pull out more information; and they're providing even more tools for export before they shut down.
Sandy won't live here any more and Stikkit will have a fork in it on 8-December-2008.
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