I am a big fan of E’s The Soup hosted by Joel McHale, but now a spin-off called Web Soup is taking center stage. What’s the basis of the show? A weekly countdown of the top Internet videos from around the globe. The former host of MTV’s Singled-Out Chris Hardwick gets another shot at reality […]
Category: Web 2.0
Oh No! Your Parents Just Joined Facebook?
The other day I heard a few talk show hosts insinuating that Facebook has “Jumped The Shark“. I then saw on Doug Craver’s TechBytes and on a few Twitter feeds the website My Parents Joined Facebook referenced. The website insinuates that youth can no longer post everything happening in their lives on Facebook because now […]
Zamzar Online File Converter
The internet is truly powerful and if used the right way, you can produce powerful results. Remember that line from Spiderman, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Exhibit A is a recent find called Zamzar which is an online file converter that works great. Do you have a video in mpg format you need convert […]
Get Your Hitwise Search Data
Hitwise recently launched a search marketers haven of data; their website says, “We are leading statistics for an online industry.” If you need statistics for your next presentation about online search, then look no further than Hitwise. What questions are you asking yourself? Are curious what the top 20 most visited websites are last week […]
MySpace Jobs
Recently I got an email from MySpace that they’ve added new features to their website. The trend recently is that MySpace has been on the downturn because other social networking platforms like Facebook are gaining popularity. Thus, I wasn’t surprised when I heard that MySpace was trying to stay relevant. So why not add a […]
Commentary: Stop Over-sized Ghosted TV Promos?
Since I am a social network addict, I don’t watch that much TV anymore, but when I do, I have started to track a trend. Have you noticed the size of the ghosted TV logos? These promos are either getting larger or they are animating out of control. In the past they used to just […]
Milo Sees If Items Are Stocked
Do you need to see if an item is in stock at the store down the street? Instead of calling your local store, asking the clerk if a item is on the shelf and then waiting five minutes to hear it’s available, use Milo. Milo is a new web service that connects you with local […]
Where’s Your Twicsy At?
Have you used Twitpic yet? If not, now you have the opportunity to search through the thousands of images users are uploading to their Twitter accounts by using Twicsy. The best part of the website is the fact that you can now see all the images uploaded in the last hour. Above is an example […]
Donate Your Time To CAP
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C81rS9XW5qo August is recycle your computer month, however Dan Hanson’s Computers Assisting People (CAP) is on a continual mission to enable those who are need of technology. CAP strives to provide a complete solution (not just recycling) so that recipients will really be empowered by the technology and be able to improve the quality of […]
Monitor Your Sites Up Time
Last year Leading Hands introduced you to a web application where you can manually verify if your site is down; Down For Everyone Or Is It Just Me identifies if the connection is just bad on your end or bad for the rest of the world. Now a service called “Hows The” takes this concept […]