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What am I doing? Where am I? Ask my phone.

March 13, 2007 – 7:23 pm

Two new mobile services just recently caught my eye. And I have to admit, I am addicted to them.
Twitter, a two-year-old social networking site, asks one simple question, “What are you doing?”
When I first came across this site, I signed up for an account, and sparingly updated my status. I never really got into it [...]

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Try Social Bookmarking

January 29, 2007 – 9:34 am

Before the days of Google, there were huge phonebook-like directories with thousands of web addresses, mostly with many slashes past the first level domain. You had to type in numbers and random words or characters just to get to your favorite websites.
Saving a website as a favorite or a bookmark used to be the cure [...]

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Semantics Are The Best

January 22, 2007 – 10:26 am

The world wide web’s architecture has dramatically changed in the past few years. Browsers wars have been fought and won, and startups have been run into the ground.
With all this shifting and manipulating of technologies, there must be some importance placed on semantics. That is, seperating markup (XHTML) from design (CSS), and even seperating behavior [...]

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welcome to your social music revolution

January 5, 2007 – 3:37 pm

finally, a social networking site that isn’t addicting. last.fm quietly collects a user’s music data and displays it on a facebook-style profile page.

this dynamically generated list is also clickable, and usually leads to a radio station with music by a similar artist. kinda like pandora, but with a british twist. last.fm is based in London, [...]

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Expand Your Vocabulary

December 18, 2006 – 10:25 am

User-generated content rules the web. Just read Time Magazine’s new Person of the Year issue.
Enter Wordie, a utility that allows you to conveniently save a list of words. At first, I wasn’t sure about it, but now I find myself adding words every day. Wordie also appeals to me because I have an affliction for [...]

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