Entries from June 2009

Are You Ready for an Emergency?

You never know when disaster will strike. That became abundantly apparent after the September 11 terrorist attacks earlier this decade. It became apparent last night too, when my neighborhood experienced an ‘end-of-the-world-like’ thunder and lightning storm.
emicus is a community-powered emergency network, and it could be the most important social media site you register [...]

Repair Broken Links As They Happen

Most Website owners are not evil, therefore they don’t have too many enemies. However there is a common nemesis: Broken links.
A bad URL can easily ruin the day of any blogger or Webmaster. No matter how closely you pay attention to every last colon and slash, there will be links that slip through [...]

Your Blog Can Be Delivered Like a Newspaper With Zinepal

We were warned back in high school that one day we could potentially live in a world without books. A paperless society. Every time it seems we are marching down that path, a new technology is unveiled that keeps the old one alive.
Meet Zinepal, the site where you become the editor, printing a morning edition [...]

Su.pr Links Come to StumbleUpon

When I see a large spike in traffic on several of my blogs, I don’t even have to check the logs to know that there’s a good chance it’s folks coming via StumbleUpon (SU).
SU discovers Web sites based on your interests and keeps track of the pages you like in order to deliver similar content. [...]

Add Betty to Your E-mails and Make That Conversation a Threesome

I’m a married man…but I think I’m in love…with a woman who is NOT my wife! Sorry honey, but meet Betty, my new virtual e-mail assistant.
I didn’t even have to add her to payroll; she works for free!

JustProto: Prototype Anything!

Gooooo team! Online communication and Web-based collaboration tools have truly changed the way we all work. With the Web offering a central location to store information and share concepts, staff members, regardless of physical location, can share input on just about anything.
JustProto is a newish Web tool that allows you to create prototypes of [...]

Visual DNA Helps You Meet People Just Like You

DNA, the blueprint of all known living organisms. What if you could harness the power of your innate personality and apply it to your social networking activity online? Youniverse wants to help you establish your Visual DNA.
Visual DNA is determined after you complete a fun and easy quiz. Fear not! Failure [...]

Google Squared Offers New Way to Display Search Results

If you don’t regularly check out the Google Labs page, you could be missing out on being an early adopter of the Next Big Thing. A new testing product called Google Squared displays results in a format similar to MS Excel.

Write, Rate and Read Very Short Stories

Writers are often looking for unbiased feedback of their work from fair and balanced third-party sources. To say that the rise of the Internet has ushered in a new generation of writers is an understatement.
If you enjoy reading and writing fiction, in the form of short stories, Ficly.com is a site for you.

Defend Your Written Work With Plagium

Since I’m a fan of irony, something about this post makes me want to copy and paste it directly from someone elses blog and post it here. Of course, I’m too much of a karma watcher to engage in such deviant behavior. But the same can’t be said for other bad bloggers. [...]

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