Renaissance 2.0
MomentTracker has a basic idea: Where were you when the stuff hit the fan? Ok, not exactly in those words but the same premise. It’s a service that lets you share what you were doing when some major event took place such as Obama’s inauguration or on a certain date such as 9/11/2001. So, where…
Sometimes less is indeed more. That’s the case with Fizy which is a powerful new music and video search engine. There aren’t a lot of bells and whistles which is actually refreshing in this case. It’s all reminiscent of the early days of Google when it was JUST a search engine. Here’s an example of…
Here are several different ways that tweets with links to videos are handled. The experience will be vastly different depending on which method you use to access twitter. I will use the same tweet involving a link to the song “Pure Imagination” from the movie “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (one of my faves…
Sometimes big news comes in tiny little tweets. Twitter founder and CEO, Evan Williams (@ev ) casually referred to a personal bombshell here in his twitter stream Yes, that’s right. Twitter’s pregnant and his Sara is on the nest. Apparently she broke the news with this tweet yesterday. Hey wait a minute, diapers cost money….
I just updated the map of Web 2.0 services and aggregators that most of us use on a regular basis to manage our lives online and offline. Which of these do you use? Which others do you use instead that don’t appear on here? Please share them in the comments. Note: Click the map and…
Everyone seems to be jumping on the Twitter bandwagon these days. The news is full of celebrities talking about their peeps and their tweets. This includes politicians who continue to use the micro-blogging platform to express themselves and inform the people. Some are concerned about security risks or whether or not their congressman should be…
VKernel has released a new FREE SnapshotMyVM utility that makes it easy to quickly document and inventory all of your vmware Virtual Machines (VMs). Here’s some of the information you can document: VM name Guest operating system Host hardware type, manufacturer, and version VM resource (CPU, memory, storage, network) configuration VM resource utilization statistics (saves…
Twine has released a new and much improved bookmarklet that will allow you to do a great deal more than previous versions, such as saving videos from Youtube and Viemo and products from Amazon plus more. What is twine? Well, it’s like wikipedia mashed up with delicious, evernote and a wiki only with web 3.0…
I like the look and feel of Tweetizen which is a new service that basically allows you to tag your tweets and create and join groups for Twitter. Groups for twitter is isn’t new as there are a ton of them out there now battling it out as I covered recently for Mashable here. However,…
Here’s a new Twitter short movie that shows the impact each and every person you follow has on your social network! Have you ever had someone “hog the line” and cause a stir like this? The Betty Boop song might explain why some do what they do online.