Ex-blocker is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that allows you to move on with your life by blocking you from visiting your Ex-girlfriend/boyfriend's Twitter, Facebook page, and blog URL. It also whites out any references to the individual on webpages you visit. And if you're quite the pimp, you can block up to five exes with each add-on. To use Ex-blocker, you … [Read more...]
Shoutworthy – If LinkedIn and Twitter had a baby…
It would be this Facebook app. I'm not on Facebook so I had to borrow my wife's account to test drive this new app called Shoutworthy that's getting a bit of buzz. Shoutworthy is still in beta but I managed to get an invitation and if you're shouted, you will also get an invitation but I'm getting ahead of myself. Shoutworthy takes the recommendation system of LinkedIn, you a … [Read more...]
A Rant on Cyber-Bullying or ‘They’re 11. You, the Parent, Take Responsibility!’
This is partially a rant and partially a list of resources to help protect your children safe online. I was "inspired" to write this post for two reasons, I was already accumulating the list of resources for keeping kids safe online and secondly, Good Morning America had an interview with a family that was victimized by cyber bullying where they got it all wrong. Here's my two … [Read more...]
YouTube’s Life In A Day Project
Google has a huge project coming up on YouTube on July 24th that requires your involvement and the YouTube logo has been helpfully reminding us about. From the YouTube Life In A Day site: One world. 24 hours. 6 billion perspectives. Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 … [Read more...]
Bing’s Webmaster Tools
Bing has announced on the Bing blog (and it's corroborated on the Yahoo! Search blog yesterday) today that the testing with Yahoo! implementing Bing search results is underway. Of greater importance to webmasters and SEO experts, Bing is warning/encouraging webmasters to investigate how their site is showing up in search results using the newly updated Bing Webmaster Tools, … [Read more...]