Entries from January 2009

Great! Facebook Hits 150M Users

The official Facebook blog has just reported that the social networking site has just reached a new milestone – 150 million users worldwide, with 50% of them using the social networking site everyday. No wonder, my 15-year old son is now on Facebook, and so does his throng of teen-age friends. And guess where they [...]

Resize Images on the Fly

Resizing images is one of the simpler tasks Web users are often faced with.  Whether it’s a photo we’d like to shrink so we can e-mail it to a friend, or something that needs to be resized for a blog, there are many ways to do it – but none as simple as ResizeImage.

Reality Wanted Could Land You on TV

It started again last night.  My wife sat in front of the boob tube, mystified by reality TV.  From the dorkiest ‘Bachelor’ to date, to the shlocky Momma’s Boys, can we please get our well-scripted shows back?
As if there isn’t enough on TV for reality shows, there is now a Website dedicated solely for news [...]

TipsBase Lets You Share Tips, Tricks and Advice

We all agree that social networking wouldn’t be as big as it is right now if not for the people, us who partake of what these social networking sites has to offer. And through our participation on various social networking activities, we partake in the creation of knowledge. But unfortunately those social networking sites do [...]

Reading Trails Makes it Easier to Find Books to Read

Libraries are so long gone with the advent of social media sites catering to books and reading. And that’s coming from a Library Science School graduate like me. Hopefully, my college friends and instructors will not chanced upon this post and crucify me for stating what most librarians refuse to admit. But how can [...]

Finish Your Masterpiece With Minimum Noise

And the list for online work continues! MinimumNoise.com allows individuals that sing, play instruments, or even just have audio production skills to find freelance work. This website hooks you up to people who need your skills. Or vice versa, if you need to add drums to your music, it allows you to post a request [...]

Directory of Twitter Apps

With the many third-party Twitter applications/plug-ins that are coming out, maybe it’s time to have a Twitter Apps Store. Or at least an online directory of these applications would be more useful. Actually, there are already three that we know of, and the most recent of which to come out is Twitdom – the Twitter [...]

Organize Parties with Your Friends Using Atomeet

Organizing parties and events is a daunting task. Well, at least before when you have to manually organize everything including sending out the actual invites through snail mail. But of course, with the available technology all around us, everything have come quite faster and easier. That includes organizing parties and events. Especially if once in [...]

Start the New Year Right with Learn and Save

Now that the holiday festivities are over, and the New Year just ushered in, it’s time to look into your financial status and check out how much you’ve spend during the Holidays. And if you’ve found yourself cash-strapped, you’d certainly need what new consumer networkin site Learn and Save has to offer.