In Chicago for a few days… hanging out at the hotel bar after a long day, catching up on emails. Just re-discovered Outside.in, a neat way to see what’s going on in your neighborhood (or any other place you may happen to find yourself in).
Work and life in general are keeping me plenty busy lately so I’ve neglected pretty much all my hobbies, this blog among them… Lots of stuff happening around the web in the last few weeks… Microsoft buying a chunk of Facebook… Google getting more active in the mobile industry… Talking about Google, they’re now the [...]
Many companies have hopped on the web 2.0 bandwagon to market their products or services – via blogs, Second Life, You Tube campaigns, etc. More often than not, their efforts are pretty unimpressive. There are exceptions though, and they don’t have to be complicated. Here’s one example that I think is a great viral marketing [...]
This guy has a hilarious post about his first experience with Second Life: Yesterday I downloaded something called Second Life. It is like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, except you can’t shoot anyone, and you can’t hit people. You just walk around. There are no prostitutes, and everything costs real money, and you can’t rob [...]
Now this is a neat idea that: Midomi lets you search for a song by singing, humming, or whistling a bit of the song…
Google’s Year-End Zeitgeist is always interesting and often surprising. Who would’ve thought that bebo was going to be the most searched-for term in 2006? Maybe I’m behind the times, but I didn’t even know bebo until now… Seems like it’s another social networking site à la MySpace. Anyways, go check it out, there’s some interesting [...]
I’ve been hearing a lot about Linden Lab’s virtual online society Second Life lately, but I never really bothered to check it out. Well, today I had my first taste of it, when an interactive advertising agency we wanted to interview decided to give us their pitch in their virtual meeting room. After being shown [...]
This is hillarious!! This guy sure loves his toolbars, extensions, and plug-ins…
The US and Russia have reached an agreement to shut down Russia-based allofmp3.com, a controversial music download site. This is obviously part of a larger push to bring intellectual property rights in line with WTO standards as Russia aspires to join the WTO next year. It’ll be interesting to see how effectively Russia can address [...]
This is getting ridiculous. It seems to be true; I’ve been getting so much friggin’ spam over the last few weeks it’s not even funny. After a nice four-day Thanksgiving weekend, my inbox at work is completed drowned in spam. I’m not sure who I should be more upset with: the idiot spammers that use [...]
Check out Confabb, a new service where you can find information on all sorts of conferences and events. It has reviews, information on speakers, and a bunch of other neat features. I have a feeling I’ll be visiting this site pretty often.
It doesn’t happen often that Microsoft gives away software for free, so the fact that they’re offering a fully functional accounting suite for free is quite remarkable. With Office Accounting Express 2007 you can create quotes and invoices, track expenses, manage payrolls, produce all sorts of reports, and much more. Looks like a good deal [...]
What is up with all those spam emails touting penny stocks? My spam filter is pretty good, but it doesn’t seem to catch the stock spam crap at all, I must get at least 30 a day. It’s ridiculous.
Ever wonder which of the two major search engines yields better search results? Check out GahooYoogle, which displays both search engine results side by side for comparison. Kinda fun. And at least for me, Google still seems way more relevant.
I just came across Lulu again, a great site for very affordable self publishing. I’m curious to try it out, I think for starters I’ll create a hardcover book from my favorite photographs.