I love the fact that every Joe Blow can make a buck on the Web.
I hate the fact that every Joe Blow can make a buck on the Web.
Whenever there’s a good idea on the Internet, the money-making angle trails directly behind. Such is the case with TwittAd, a Web site that allows you to convert your followers into cold, hard cash. Continue reading the story called How to Sell Out Friends and Make Enemies on Twitter
I know that some of you, our dear readers might frown upon reading the title of this post, but hey we got to accept the fact the Disney’s High School Musical series, no matter how unoriginal the storyline is, they are still raking in big time dough for Disney. High School Musical has created a cult following among the young generation, and we as parent get to live with that fact. Adding even more agony to us, is the fact that Disney and MySpace will soon be launching a High School Musical 3 contest. Yup, you read it right folks, a MySpace promotional contest for the HSM3. Don’t we just love it? Continue reading the story called MySpace Ties Up with Disney’s High School Musical 3
Two of our favorite websites have redesigned - TechCrunch and Poynter now have better, upgraded look.
This podcast also covers TypoBuddy, NutshellMail and Hoffspace and more.
Recently, Google’s free Blogging platform, Blogger (aka Blogspot.com), introduced a new feature where blog owners can easily see who are reading their blogs as well as display which blogs they are reading. Although, there are third-party applications who can do this - Yahoo’s MyBloglog for instance, Blogger’s Following feature is easily activated through your Blogger’s Dashboard. Continue reading the story called Blogger Goes Friendly with “Follow” Feature
Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn is introducing several enhancements to its site in the coming months. Among these new features an enhancements are Group Discussions, Group Home Page, enhanced roster, and digest emails. Continue reading the story called LinkedIn Groups Get More Useful
It’s so disheartening to see a social networking or web 2.0 service join the deathpool. More especially if it happens to be one of the major internet player’s property. We’re talking about here of Yahoo’s take on the social networking niche - Yahoo! Mash. Continue reading the story called Yahoo! Mash Misses and Shuts Down
And the Twittie goes to…
Every established medium gets its own award show; why should Twitter be any different?
That’s right folks, it’s time to pay your respects to the very best visionaries who were able to hammer out 140 characters. Whether you have spotted the smartest, funniest or snarkiest tweet - nominate your favorites.
There is no registration and the winners will be announced on October 1.
Continue reading the story called Nominate the Best Tweets on Twitter
Too cheap or too lazy to land Guitar Hero or Rock Band? Fear not! There’s now a free, online Web site that’s promising similar game play - without requiring any additional equipment or even a game console!
JamLegend lets you rock out with an internet connection and a keyboard. Continue reading the story called Play ‘Guitar Hero’ for Free Online
Continuing our coverage of recent developments in the FriendFeed camp, we just found out that finally the lifestreaming service is introducing some set of easy-to-embed widgets which we can all use easily in our respective sites/blogs. Although some of the contents of these widgets can already be done using RSS the FriendFeed’s official widgets is still a better alternative to displaying your FriendFeed streams and profile into your own blogs or sites. Continue reading the story called Introducing FriendFeed’s Cool Widgets
Several years back I remember buying a watch on eBay. With the retail value hovering somewhere near $100, I couldn’t understand why I was able to walk away with such a fine timepiece for about $12.
Then I realized: I had accidentally searched for a G-Shok watch, not a G-Shock!
Ever since then, I’ll often purposely type things incorrectly in order to find a bargain. It’s never really worked out, and whenever I’ve explained the tactic to friends, they just think I’m weird (at least weirder than I really am). Well, apparently, I’m not alone.
Continue reading the story called Save Money From Other People’s Typos
We all know that social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and the others are worldwide and multi-cultural in nature. The fact that members of these social networks come from different countries makes it a multi-national social networking site. But it becomes different though when we speak of a multilingual social network. None of the current social networks support the multilingual interaction and form of communication. Until now with XIHA Life. Continue reading the story called XIHA Life the World’s First Multilingual Social Network
Finally, FriendFeed is getting a much needed redesign. It’s ages since FriendFeed has been launched and we’re glad it has been making waves and is now becoming everybody’s favorite lifestreaming/aggregator service. And with its new design, we expect more users to come into the FriendFeed fold. And it might also serve as a warning to the Big “T”.
Continue reading the story called FriendFeed Preps a New Design
