Entries from January 2009

Breaking Tech News at Buzzup

Buzzup.com is a website dedicated to the latest news relating to technology. Or as they describe their site “a one stop shop so you can find all the latest news and gossip from a number of different sites.” However, the twist that makes this site a little different is that all the content comes from [...]

Hotbooks Will Bring Your Facebook Photo Collection to Life

For the fast couple of weeks, I must admit that I was getting pretty annoyed by the sudden influx of my Friendster college friends to Facebook.  And of course, I can’t turned down their invitation to connect to them via Facebook. But what bothers me is the rate that they are posting photos on their [...]

Upload Class Notes on Knetwit

This website attempts to replace the paper copy hand-me-downs from student to student by encouraging students to upload class notes onto Knetwit.com.  What is the benefit?

Techmeme Uses Twitter to Get News Tips

For tech bloggers and writers, a good way of getting publicity for their articles is to have them indexed/featured by tech news aggregator Techmeme. However, compared to other news aggregator, Techmeme is very hard to infiltrate. If your blog doesn’t have that much traffic yet, you won’t get into the Techmeme cloud that easily even [...]

A New Level of Internet ‘Stalking’?

Do you love re-connecting with old classmates or friends from work? Do you just love stalking people over the Internet? WikiWorldBook.com is basically a search engine for the major social networking sites. The Website is the self-proclaimed “Global Address Book”.

Writer’s Pub is a Social Site that I Would Rather Not Join

I’ve a tech writing for more than two years now. Although I’ve personally seen minor improvements in my writing, I still don’t see myself as a prolific writer. Hence, when I encountered the new Writer’s Pub I knew immediately I should not join this site. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great community [...]

Plinky Helps You Create Meaningful Content

For those who are already tired of the mindless and pointless updates that you get from your Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites’ friends and contacts, you may want to suggest Plinky to them. Or if you are guilty of such “crime”, you may want to try out Plinky yourself. Plinky is an inspired-content [...]

Top 5 Best Free Photo Sharing Sites

Here you go, your definitive lists of the best photo sharing sites available today. You don’t need to have a lists with 40 or 50 of these sites. Ten is enough to help you decide which photo sharing site to use if you haven’t done so in the past. Or if your current photosharing site [...]

RB Weekly Highlights: Facebook is now Two Times Bigger than MySpace

Like we didn’t know that this is going to happen? We all see this coming right? Facebook continously growing in terms of pageviews and unique visitors, leaving behind MySpace? Well, it will just be a matter of time before every social networking fanatics turn to Facebook for their daily fix of – telling the world [...]

The Review That Never Happened

It’s funny, I just read a press release for a new Web site that is trying to compete with CitySearch and other destination-review stops.  But I’ve decided against it.  Why?  Because after visiting the site, I was bombarded with ads.
You deserve better, dear reader.
So the site is not getting mentioned on Rotorblog, but allow this [...]

CitySpeek Takes on Twitter with Integrated Video

Twitter is good and nice, but what if  something better comes out? Will you abandon Twitter and start building your microblogging clout all over again? Well, you might as well try the new service first before even thinking of abandoning your Twitter followers. After it didn’t take you overnight to build your current hugh Twitter [...]

iMob Online for iPhone

Yesterday I was playing with my iPhone and found iMob Online on the top game list. This game, my folks, can become the most addictive game of the year! Many will say that this is just another clone of the popular mafia game, that you can find online and, for the most part, you are [...]