Happy Valentine's Day!
I hope everyone feels loved and has someone they love in their life! Here are some nice love stories about how celebs met http://60minutes.yahoo.com/segment/139/love_stories
Author: Doriano
boy meets url
How many URL shortening services do you think there are? Believe it or not, Mashable just did a roundup of 90 URL shortening services! Holy smokes, batman! How can there be so many solutions for such a simple task? Aren’t they all the same? Well, not really. While most of these services are very similar,…
Electric dreams
I’ve always loved the movie “Electric Dreams” (1984). It was one of the first features films that had the personal computer as one of its leads! Sure, “2001: a Space Odyssey” had HAL but Electric Dreams had a PC called Edgar which more resembled our modern-day home computer. “War Games” from 1983 was another film…
Viral Marketing
The definition of viral marketing from wikipedia: marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.[1] Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates…
Networks 101
A friend of mine said to me, “Sorry you have to work late tonight. I have no idea what a core switch is.” It made me chuckle and remember that most people don’t know the terms or jargons we geeks in I.T. use on a daily basis. Even technically savvy users like my friend don’t…
The Lost Art of Conversation
Everyone that knows me knows how much I love social media and social networking. I am a big fan of web 2.0 and do not fear any bubble bursting any time soon. However, something happened to me today on my drive home from work that forced me to rethink some thing when it comes to…
Second Skin
SecondSkin is an interesting film about the seven lives of people who are addicted to the popular online virtual worlds like SecondLife, World of Warcraft and EverQuest. It shows a couple who fell in love before even meeting in person, handicapped people who find limitless potentials online and other stories. It truly looks like a fascinating…
Real-Time Web Stats
Here’s a quick and easy (and free!) way to see realtime stats on the number of people visiting your website or blog: http://whos.amung.us They don’t describe themselves as a page counter, but as a people counter. http://whos.amung.us/learnmore shows how to add a counter that shows live visitors These other two widgets work with the…
How to Build Your Own Social Network in the Enterprise for Free
Believer it or not, you can actually build a social network for your enterprise for free. Thanks to Microsoft’s free Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and free SQL Server 2005 Express database, you can design and deploy an entirely new collaborative intranet or social network for your company that features many of the hottest web 2.0…
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Free Search Engine for Your Enterprise
Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express is a free (for now) search solution for the enterprise. It’s easy to install and can be up and running within minutes. It looks and feels like search engines we use every day. Includes subscription service that sends update notifications of your search results via e-mail and RSS alerts. Watch this…