Backpack
Over the past week or so, I’ve been trying out Backpack. It’s rather difficult to describe exactly what it does, and the best way to learn is by trying it yourself (you can sign up for a limited free account). However, by just saying “Go and try it”, I feel that I’m failing in my duty to the geek community, and being pretty lazy into the bargain. So here’s a slightly more informative discussion.
Backpack allows you to create and link together a number of web pages, which can contain text, check lists, notes (blog-like entries with a title and a date stamp), links to other pages and tags (like del.icio.us tags). In addition, if you have any of the account plans other than the free one, you can also upload images and files. Backpack uses Ajax extensively to handle creation, deletion and editing of elements, so it feels very snappy and smooth to use as you rarely have to refresh the page to see your changes.
