With my wife off her feet recovering from surgery, I’ve been assigned the insufferable chore of taking care of the family food shopping…
and it’s been an eye-opening experience!
Gosh things have gotten expensive. The one item in particular that I flagged as a “do we really need that” purchase were paper towels. There’s always [...]

For years I have noticed a serious void on the Web. Yes despite this gaping hole, I never made any effort to fill it.
That hole WAS the ability to make simple charts online. Thanks to Chartle.net the void is no more. In fact, this Web-based tool is so slick and so simple [...]

If you’re a regular Windows Live user, you ought to know that Microsoft has just rolled several enhancements to Windows Live Profile, among which is full integration with social networking sites and other online services including Facebook, WordPress, Smugmug and many other services.

From AOL’s MediaGlow comes a new magazine-style political site called Politics Daily. Previously a part of AOL News Network, Politics Daily is now being launched as a separate site featuring top-tier political writers with their in-depth and informed reporting, analysis and opinion of, well what else but U.S. Politics.   Politics Daily aims to become a [...]

The Rhode Island Treasury Department is joining the Twitter bandwagon by way of its daily cash flow report which will be sent on real-time via Twitter tweets.  Ok folks, don’t even think that we are joking here. What we’re saying is true. The Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer will soon be broadcasti
ng the [...]

Gmail Labs has just rolled two new Gmail features in experiment – Sender Time Zone and Insert Images.  These two Gmail features are both useful and could very well make your Gmail experience more fruitful and pleasant one.

For awhile a I thought Gawkk which we featured not so long ago, with a tagline that says – collect and share video with friends is different from Gawkk with a tagline – share videos with friends. But then they are actually one and the same.  And what’s the difference? Well, Gawkk has just added [...]

The popularity of microblogging service, specifically Twitter catches on even with mommy bloggers and online mothers. TodaysMama, a popular website for mommy bloggers has just implemented a Twitter-like service as part of the website’s features. Called TodaysMama Connect, the service allows members to connect to fellow mommy bloggerss in 140 characters which is obviously  similar [...]

BusinessCard2 is “the world’s first Internet business card.” With several hundred thousand users, the site strives to provide professionals with an online marketing platform. Users can customize their card by adding as much or as little info as they want, and it is fully searchable by the major search engines.
The site has [...]

Face.com is launching a new Facebook application that will surely be a big hit among Facebook users especially those who are fond of uploading and sharing photos to their Facebook profile. The application called Photo Finder will scan public photos in social network and suggests tags for untagged faces.

No! To be honest please digg this – it still brings more traffic to the site than twitter.
Other than huge number of eyeballs Twitter brings news faster, maybe this is the reason why slowly Twitter becomes my number one source of information. I feel that Digg is loosing it’s position as “breaking news” source. Twitter [...]

No particular single news dominated the social networking and online communications scenes this week.  Three topics stood out – the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS, the release of Google Chrome in beta (again), IE8’s final version, and some new Gmail features rolled out by Google.  Interestingly there was not too much buzz going around the two [...]