Entries from April 2008

WiFi Detection T-Shirt

In this day and age, if your product doesn’t multitask, you’re irrelevant.  Thankfully, someone out there decided that a T-shirt was no longer good enough to cover up your nips, hide your accordion belly and absorb sweat.
Slip into this: the WiFi Detecting T-Shirt.

Fire That Receptionist! Share Your Calendar With Jiffle.

Plans. In my world, I like being in control when I make them and with whom. Jiffle, an online application that aims to give everyone access to your calendar, threatens to change that. But that might not be such a bad thing.

Treat your Facebook friends to a virtual vacation, earn real travel vouchers with VayCay app

Here’s a fun Facebook application that would surely strengthen your ties with you Facebook friends. VayCay from itzbig.com allows you to treat your friends to their virtual dream vacation. There’s no limit to where you can send them, and no money required as well. It’s purely for fun sakes, so better suspend reality even just [...]

Create a unique profile, win $2000 at WotsCool

The New Zealand social networking community must be having their luckiest day, as WotsCool.com, a NZ-based social network is offering its members and would-be members a chance to win $2000 by creating the most unique and most visited profile. This is WotsCool way of inspiring its members and at the same time entices [...]

Community Writing Can Get You Published

There are few things in life I find intimidating.  Among them: skydiving, chef Gordon Ramsey and writing a novel.  Though not necessarily in that order.  Actually, yes, exactly in that order.  Let’s take the last one first.

Display your Photobucket photos on MySpace’s Top Pick app

The newly opened MySpace development platform has encouraged not only third-party application developers to come with great applications for MySpace, but even the more established sites have started joining MySpace with their own branded application that integrates their services into the MySpace environment. Photobucket is among these established sites and it just launched the Top [...]

Nothing Is Free: Musicians Make Money

Every time I hear artists bellyaching that they are in the poorhouse because of the Internet, I wince in pain. Even if you’re not selling CD’s, there are a million and one other ways to parlay your musical success into a small fortune.
And Last.fm has proven that even free makes money.

Flickr copies YouTube, launches Video for Flicker features

So the rumours were true after all. Flickr has officially announced its video uploading feature. Yes, now, you can’t just upload and view photos, but videos as well. Wait, here’s the catch, the video for Flickr is for Pro members only. Yep, only the $20 paying members of Flickr are going to get this feature. [...]

Do You Want to Speak From the Grave?

Mom says: “The ‘paperwork’ is in the bottom drawer.”
Son says: “If you’re talking about what I think you’re talking about, I don’t want to talk about it!”
If that conversation sounds familiar, you’re not alone.  Most people do not like to plan for death.  Unfortunately, it’s a grim reality.  The last thing you would want to [...]

Tweet Stats Reveal Twitter Users Habits

Are you a metricholic? If numbers and traffic are your thing, and a good graph gets you off, you’ll probably be interested in Tweet Stats.
Developed and coded by Damon Cortesi, the tool lets you research and analyze how you – and your favorite Twitterazzi – are utilizing the microblog.

Facebook now lets you ignore Friend invites

Sorry to all my Facebook friends, but sometimes those Facebook invites can get pretty annoying. Specifically those invites for application that don’t really add value to Facebook’s uses. Let’s admit it boys and girls, there’s not too many applications that are really worth installing in our Facebook accounts. Most of these applications are simply time [...]

MySpace users get their own MyMiniPC

MySpace maybe too much of a social network in popularity and wide base usage, that Everex decided to release a mini-PC targeted specifically for MySpace users. The miniPC’s name? You guess it right – MyMiniPC.