Entries from January 2009

Create a Virtual Flipbook With Daily Mugshot

One of the things I appreciate most about the people I follow on Twitter is their ability to make me aware of Web destinations I didn’t know existed.  In case you’ve forgotten, the Web is a massive place, one where it’s impossible to be aware of every neat tool or service.
The most recent Web site [...]

Discover New Books and New People

Reading Trails offers a forum for passionate and enthusiastic readers a way to communicate with each other and to learn more about commonalities between books.
The trails are books that are linked by certain shared qualities and the trails are created by the users within the community. Some example trails are books to read before you [...]

YouTube Launches US Senate Hub and House of Reps Hub

There’s no doubt that YouTube is perhaps most widely used online service worldwide. Even the US Government has recognized its potential to reach large-scale audience not only coming from the U.S., but from other countries as well. And so the YouTube Senate Hub and Congress Hub were born.

Motorcycle Riders Come Together on moterus

Beer. Tattoos.  Bandanas.
With that description, you probably pictured a bearded dude on a Harley.  But in the 21st century, the look of a biker has definitely evoloved.  From Fortune 500 CEOs to 18-year old geeks, it seems like anyone can ride the hog.
And since two-wheeled vehicles now attract a wide cross-section of people, it was [...]

Web Workers Unite With the Hush Project

The Hush Project is a website dedicated to giving credit to those that deserve it. It allows users to nominate deserving individuals to be rewarded for their good deeds. So first off, let’s define what the Hush Project considers what they refer to as “unsung heroes”: more or less they are looking for individuals that [...]

20 Best iPhone Games of 2008

Still couldn’t get enough of your new iPhone 3G which you’ve received as a Christmas gift? Still scouring through the Apps Store looking for applications to install? Look no further as we’ve selected 20 of the best iPhone games which made it big in 2008. Most of these iPhone games are paid apps, so [...]

Find Tickets With Ticket Predator

Ticket Predator is a Website dedicated to finding the best deals for sports, concerts and theater tickets in the United States and Canada. It is a search engine that scours the Internet for all the best prices on these types of tickets.

Your Online Safe Deposit Box

As a kid, I remember several trips with my mom to the safe deposit box.  It was a security-escorted trip through brightly-lit and narrow hallways.  Eventually, the journey ended in front of a tiny gold box.
What was in there?
At the time I pictured bars of gold, treasure maps, and secret codes.  It wasn’t until years [...]

Weekly Blog Highlights: Hackers and Phisers Attack Twitter

The social networking world, more particularly the Twitter dominion was up and about early this week with separate incidents compromising the accounts of millions of Twitter users. The first incident which was reported sometime last week was about phising scam spreading through Twitter Direct Messages, while the second incident was about hacking attacks on the [...]

Will You Drop 10 of Your Facebook Friends for a Burger King Whopper?

Apparently, despite being a ridiculous idea, many Facebook users have already done so – that is unfriend their Facebook friends to get Burger King coupon that will entitle them to a free Whopper. Sounds yummy right? To the more than 16,000 Facebook users, the temptation of the Burger King Whopper was too strong to resists [...]

Zumbox: The Alternative Postal Service?

Zumbox, or the self-proclaimed “Alternative Postal Service”, aims to please by sending paperless mail online from street address to street address.
Excuse me?

Brace Yourself Folks, MySpace Will Soon Be on your TV

Amidst the frenzy in the ongoing CES event at Las Vegas which are dominated primarily by consumer electronics companies, MySpace was able to get some mileage thanks to its partnership with Intel, Yahoo and Toshiba. The deal will bring the MySpace experience on your TV sets, thanks to Yahoo’s Connected TV service and Toshiba which [...]