I just found out about this offer that Amazon has going for college students. The program is fittingly called Amazon Student. Since I'm going back for some classes this fall I can take advantage of it too! The deal in summary gets you a free, year-long membership to Amazon Prime (which means free two-day shipping), a $79 value and you can upgrade to one-day shipping for … [Read more...]

48Upper is the first Social Collaborative IT Management solution to fully embrace social networking and the power of the community directly within the processes that run IT. 48Upper provides IT professionals with the tools and knowledge necessary to be more productive by solving problems and finding solutions more efficiently than ever before, and most importantly, without … [Read more...]

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...]

On February 11th Flattr was announced and stirred up the Internet. Folks who were affiliated with The Pirate Bay explained their plans to change the way the Internet operates. They are seeking to provide the channel for content consumers to easily provide a note of appreciation and monetary incentive to content creators. The site is currently in Beta, but is shaping up nicely. … [Read more...]

Google announced last year a philanthropic effort it called Project 10 to the 100. (10 to the 100 calculated out is a googol.) Now it's time to vote for the idea you'd most like to see established. The Project has been neutralized a bit from the quite ambitious plan that was announced to the more generalized one now, but Google still hopes to improve the world by dedicating … [Read more...]