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19 February 2010 ~ Comments

Tech Week in Review 2-19-2010

Gaming Foursquare
I guess you can’t really game a game, can you? One man, armed with the Foursquare API and a little coding knowledge, aimed to show potential flaws in the Foursquare checkin system. He checked in at a bunch of locations repeatedl…

18 February 2010 ~ Comments

Vimeo Goes Mobile and Adds HTML5 and 1080p

High-quality video site Vimeo has made a few upgrades that show they’re keeping an eye on changes in the web. They’ve added support for mobile phones and also optional support for 1080p. More interesting is their beta support for HTML5, which could res…

17 February 2010 ~ Comments

Chatroulette Leaves Me Bored and Slightly Disturbed

Chatroulette is a service that takes video chat to a whole new level. Not really a level above what you might expect these days on the net, but definitely a different level than what you might be used to. It allows you to video and text chat one-on-one…

17 February 2010 ~ Comments

Google Buzz, PleaseRobMe, and Privacy Scare Tactics

Google Buzz, PleaseRobMe, and Privacy Scare Tactics

With Google Buzz recently launching inside of your Gmail, many people immediately became concerned about their privacy. The primary reason being that there was a social component inside their email inbox, a place normally reserved for private discussion.
The other concern that arose was the way Google built your network. Most social networks are built, brick-by-brick, [...]

16 February 2010 ~ Comments

How to Get Rid of Too Many Browser Tabs

One thing I always find common among people who use a browser all day is the shear amount of tab hoarding they do. I find this totally insane for a number of reasons. The first being that it’s completely counter-productive. You may not realize it…

15 February 2010 ~ Comments

Get Bookmarklets in Chrome Applications with Shortcut Manager

Get Bookmarklets in Chrome Applications with Shortcut Manager

I accidentally stumbled across  this in looking at the Quix bookmarklet. I’m a heavy bookmarklet user, especially after switching to Google Chrome. One of the bookmarklets I use the most is for the PassPack password manager. This allows me to login to any website with a single click.
The problem is that, if I’m using an [...]

15 February 2010 ~ Comments

5 Ways to Make Buzz Better

Google Buzz pretty much came out of nowhere and nobody has stopped talking about it since. Even people that have nothing to do with the tech world noticed that new link in their Gmail sidebar. Whether you’re already using Buzz or you’re not sure what t…

12 February 2010 ~ Comments

Tech Week in Review 2-12-2010

Google Buzz
First, they released stuff like FriendConnect and started messing around with the Social Graph and Google Profiles. Next, they dropped Google Wave. Contrary to popular belief, I don’t think Wave was Google’s big jump into social…

11 February 2010 ~ Comments

Get Your Qhub Invites Here

Earlier today, we posted about Qhub, a service that lets you create your very own Questions and Answers website. You could use it to get much needed feedback from your community and keep your ear to the streets. Qhub is in private beta, but has been ge…

11 February 2010 ~ Comments

How To Create Your Own Q&A Website with Qhub

Qhub is a new service offering a simple method for creating a Questions and Answers website. If you ever dreamed of running your very own Yahoo Answers, your prayers have been answered in Qhub. Unlike more general solutions, Qhub is aims to be a more t…

09 February 2010 ~ Comments

How To Pull Yourself Together with Flavors.me

Flavors.me is a simple and elegant solution that helps you create an automatic lifestream of all your online content. It connects with your various social media accounts, pulls in your content from them, and displays it in a flexible and customizable i…

08 February 2010 ~ Comments

Thinking Bigger: Living in Your New House

Thinking Bigger: Living in Your New House

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Coldwell Banker. All opinions are 100% mine.
Many people have developed a culture of thinking small. We lament about stuff we can’t afford. We talk about how broke we are. We make jokes about how messed up our credit is and we would [...]

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08 February 2010 ~ Comments

Amtrak Celebrates Black History Month with MyBlackJourney.com

MyBlackJourney.com is a microsite set up by Amtrak as part of their Black History Month celebration. As you can tell from the name, the focus is on African-American passengers. The site has a wealth of information regarding popular “African-American …

05 February 2010 ~ Comments

Appcelerator Titanium Lets Web Developers Write Native Software

Appcelerator Titanium is an API that empowers web developers to create native applications for multiple platforms. A large percentage of developers are web developers, strong in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. If these developers are looking to develop nati…

05 February 2010 ~ Comments

Tech Week in Review 2-5-2010

Twitter.com Gets Hovercards (finally)
Twitter seems to be getting serious about making the Twitter.com interface more useful to users. Following the complete redesign they did a while back, addition of lists, and new retweet feature, they have now adde…

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