I recently took a business trip and identified four “everyday” innovations that benefited both the innovative businesses and their customers.
1. Southwest Airlines’ seating. Until recently I was the most anti-Southwest person you could find; I felt like cattle on my first flight a few years ago – people were lining up an hour ahead of the flight to get a good seat.  I cursed this “new age” airline from my center seat the entire flight, vowing never to fly them again.  But when they instituted their new policy of assigning …

I was in desperate need of a productivity “pick me up” – a personal database to house those websites, notes, articles, pictures, and anything else digital or scannable that I came across and wanted to save and reference later. I use Microsoft’s OneNote 2007 as an online binder for taking notes with my tablet, but it just didn’t seem to be the best solution for a broad personal database.
I had heard a lot of positive buzz about Evernote (www.evernote.com) so I decided to try it out. (With their tagline …