Twitter - At a Glance

I’m taking a look today at Twitter, a popular online service similar to the “status box” implemented by Facebook. Twitter gives users the opportunity to post small updates on their life via a personal RSS feed.
Here’s the basics. Once you’ve signed up for a twitter account you’ve got your own personal little twitter [...]

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friendfeed: social glue filling the cracks of your web life.

Fragmented online life? This may help. friendfeed is the biggest of a new type of internet service, the social aggregator.
The problem friendfeed solves is: people have multiple sites, services and blogs and they need one place where this stream of content can be consolidated. If RSS feeds take all the new content from your fav [...]

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FeedBurning

Feedburner is a web 2.0 news feed management system. Founded in 2004, Feedburner provides tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web masters to provide unique RSS feeds. Google purchased Feedburner in 2007 for 100 million, and subsequently eliminated the fees on many of Feedburners pay programs. An interview with Dick Costolo, prompted [...]

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Plaxo Connections

Mr. Sean Parker has done quite well for himself. This man takes credit for co-founding Napster and also founding Plaxo which is an online address book, networking tool, and communication facilator. The innovative element of this free service is it’s ability to automatically update all contact information which means you can ditch those [...]

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Craigslist vs eBay?..

I personally think that craigslist is much easier to use than eBay. I experience craigslist sell tool, because I had to sell a lots of staff for my boss, and I have found that listing my items through craigslist have gave better results. One of the features that I like in craigslist is that you [...]

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PageOnce - your internet, your way.

Pageonce defines itself as the first “personal internet assistant.” Everytime people go to their computers, they generally start out by checking a myriad of different sites. (The weather, stock prices, facebook, checking accounts, and the most recent political news, for example). Pageonce tries to simplify this process by allowing the user to see all those [...]

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Shift Happens. Globalization and the Information Age.

Here is a terrific YouTube video (6:05) that gives a great view of the changes the internet is bringing and also a look at the global environment. Really, it’s not as boring as I just made it sound LOL.
In it you learn that…

There are 2.7 billion Google searches every month (hmm… wonder how many I’m [...]

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TV Shows Whenever! | Hulu

TV shows have now (legally) joined the internet!
Today, Hulu was opened to the public. This new site offers MANY popular TV shows.
This project has the support of NBC Universal , Sony, MGM, FOX and over 50 other media companies.
The shows are accompanied by small commercials and they are doing something I thought was quite [...]

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Anonymous: Cyber Vigilantes?

Blake’s Post about that bill against anonymous posting got me curious about things so I’ve been looking around, getting a feel for what folks reactions are online and checking out some of the legal issues. Anyway, in my curiosity I’ve stumbled across something that gives me pause and presents me with a bit of [...]

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There goes the neighborhood…

Kentucky Lawmaker Wants to Make Anonymous Internet Posting Illegal

“Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.
The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.
Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.
If the [...]

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