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Like It or Not Facebook Rules Social Web
Like it or not, Facebook rules the social web with 400 million users. In operation since 2004, Facebook has seen amazing growth. It’s popularity has also generated controversy, most recently over privacy concerns. So it seems like a good time to review Facebook Profile settings, just to make sure your Account, Privacy and Applications are [...]
WordPress 3.0 Offers Easier Upgrades
WordPress has finally made it easy to upgrade with the latest version, WordPress 3.0. I used to be afraid to tackle the confusing array of upgrade configuration options, but now all of my WordPress 2.9 installations offer an upgrade link at the top of the admin panel. I’m done with only a couple of clicks! [...]
Create Online Video with Stupeflix Studio
I saw this in the Google Apps Marketplace…Easy video creation with Stupeflix Studio. The free version is pretty basic and your video creation is limited to one minute, but it does have some cool features, like professionally designed themes and transitions, plus a sharing feature to export your video to YouTube or Facebook. You do [...]
Google Search Tips
Google Search Basics can help empower your searching on the web…did you know you can search by an item or a part number? If it’s in a database that Google has crawled, then you’ll probably find it. Sometimes you want to search within a specific website…so you would enter your search words (space) site name, [...]
Create a PDF in Google Docs
@cybercoder on Twitter said: By far the easiest way to make a PDF file has got to be using Google Docs, just work it up, and download it. It’s just that easy…you can create a PDF from a text file or a spreadsheet. With a text document open in Google Docs, go to the… File [...]
Tweet Weather Observations to the National Weather Service
Now you can submit significant weather observations via Twitter to the National Weather Service. With this experimental program, the National Weather Service will be searching for Tweets that contain information about severe weather events like flooding, wind damage, hail, a tornado or funnel clouds, freezing rain, snowfall and dense fog. The National Weather Service is [...]
Google’s Search Stories
I’ve been playing with Google’s Search Stories and thought it was pretty cool at first. I’ve uploaded two Search Stories to YouTube so far, but not without difficulty. Google says the whole point of this experiment is to make searching fun. That’s cool, but why can’t do I the same things I’m seeing done in [...]
Build Your Own Time Machine
The Science Channel shows us how to build our own time machine. Sc’s Sci-Trek is currently broadcasting a series called “Breaking Time.” The program talks about the elasticity of time and how it not only runs and flows, but also stretches and bends in space. There’s time present, time past and future time. There’s also [...]
Chirp
Justin.TV has provided video coverage of the Chirp Conference that just concluded in San Francisco. Twitter is finally talking about making money, but how? Without alienating thousands of developers who are building applications on top of Twitter? Or turning off millions of daily users? Some very interesting and sometimes controversial topics were discussed at Chirp…Promoted [...]
Twitter @anywhere
Twitter has announced @anywhere, a simple set of web tools that enable partner websites to easily integrate Twitter functionality into their sites. The new API is buzzing ’round the hive… Recent Tweets about Twitter’s Chirp conference and acquisition of the Tweetie iPhone app… TheNextWeb.com>> Twitter’s New API “Will Change The Way You Use Twitter” bit.ly/cqsv7l [...]
