I'm not on Facebook. You won't find me there. I once was but I left after seeing many people waste too many hours on it and Facebook first changed its privacy policies (or lack thereof). Read these two articles from the Business Insider and tell me if you trust your information with Facebook's CEO - #1 How Facebook Was Founded #2 How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked The Harvard Crimson … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
Using Twitter’s New Blackbird Pie Service
Twitter is providing a service that replaces the need to take screenshots of tweets in order to cite a source. It calls this service Blackbird Pie and offer it through Twitter Media. From the site that's made famous the term 'fail whale', will Blackbird Pie be reliable enough for journalists and bloggers to switch to a styled embed method from simple screenshots? Using … [Read more...]
Bit.ly’s New Features
Bit.ly has revamped its simple URL shortening service and the changes have made it one slick site. Dubbed the Fugu release, bit.ly is now a pretty seamless process with extra attention being paid to sharing via Twitter and link analytics. Having a bit.ly account and linking it to your Twitter account is starting to give some real advantages to websites and bloggers. Instead of … [Read more...]
SparkChess – Quality, Free Chess Online
SparkChess is a chess game perfect for the coffee break and for showing off the capabilities of Flash. You can play against the computer at different levels of difficulty while SparkChess looks impressive, including a simple animated slide of the pieces in its isometric 3-d view. You can choose a difficulty ranging from beginner on up to casual and then to advanced. A higher … [Read more...]