I just recently (today) started using a service called Amplify that I learned about on Twitter. It’s supposed to let you easily share things across your social networks and provides a central place for discussion. I won’t get into too much detail about the specifics, but there is one major thing that instantly bothered me. [ Read More ]
Archive for January, 2010
The iPad Becomes Reality
It’s not the iSlate or the iTablet, it’s the iPad and it’s actually a real and tangible device. I’m so glad it was finally released as we can now enter a downward spiral of incessant “news” about an actual piece of …
Whatever things you hold onto in your thoughts will be the things you get out of life. I’m talking about your real thoughts, the ones in your subconscious, not the ones in your head as you look at your reflection and chant “I am somebody.” Following from that, there is a serious problem with the [ Read More ]
Google has made a few updates to Google Docs recently that could have a major effect on how you use it. A couple were just added today: Thumbnail view has been added to the Document list and spelling correction was added to the search feature.
Thumbnai…
Russian ice-skating team Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin took the ice in what appeared to be brown tights with white designs painted all over them. The costumes were also decorated with leaves around their wrists and knees, ropes around their waists,…
They went from an online video community to a Twitter client. Now, Seesmic has released Look, a Windows application that claims to immerse you in the real-time web. I’ve been playing with it for a day or so and I have to admit…I’m quite confused….
Foursquare and Yelp Got Beef?
On the 15th, Yelp stepped into Foursquare’s arena, introducing a location check-in feature in it’s new iPhone app. Competition is usually a good thing though, pushes innovation. In this case, it looks like Yelp did a l…
Social networking site Tagged has announced today that they will be donating $50,000 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. Last time we covered Tagged, they had beat Twitter in a Neilsen poll which ranked social sites based on how long users spent on them…
Wibiya opened to the public a little while ago, providing the opportunity for the average blogger to spruce things up and possibly increase page views. This works by providing visitors with valuable tools integrated directly into your blog, keeping the…
Almost as soon as the crisis in Haiti occurred, the word came out that you could text “Yele” to 501501 to easily donate money. This resulted in over 2 million dollars being raised by the organization to aid those in need. As is usually the case whe…
Facebook by Email
Millions of people, prevented from accessing Facebook at work, can now rejoice as Facebook now lets you reply to comments via email. Honestly, I have no earthly idea what took them so long. As much as Facebook spams your inbox with no…
Magpie is one of the many services out there that will pay you to tweet for them. I’ve been using it for a while now and definitely can’t complain. You probably won’t make enough to pay your mortgage, but a little gas money just for doing what yo…
In a pretty slick move, the social media site Likaholix leveraged their existing user base and database of user likes and morphed into MyLikes. The difference between the two? With MyLikes, you can turn your preferences and opinions into cash. Your Lik…
Developing your own Google Chrome extension is surprisingly easy. You might think you need all types of development skills and coding knowledge, but it’s really no more difficult than creating or tweaking a web page. If you know HTML/CSS and are some…
Pearl Jam Exchanges a Tweet for a Song
You might not see the power of OAuth or even know what OAuth is. On it’s face, it let’s you connect your Twitter account to 3rd party apps in one click, but it also makes it simple to make a somewhat intimate …
