Friday, October 10, 2008

SOME BIG NAMES ON THE WEB COULD BE IN TROUBLE

According to CNET, the web is not immune to our nation's economic woes...some huge names on the web could be in trouble...including MySpace, Second Life and Pandora just to name a few. Read the entire article and see some of the other big names at CNET.com

DO YOU MAINTAIN MULTIPLE IM ACCOUNTS?

If you're like me, you have multiple IM accounts to maintain, i.e. AIM, Yahoo Messenger, SKYPE, Window's Messenger, etc. Cool company called MeeBo.com has a method to consolidate...plus some other benefits. For the techies out there, here is a good interview with the founders of MeeBo.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

LONG URL'S CAN BE SUCH A PAIN!

Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have them break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? If you are a consummate Twitter or Texter, then you may already be familiar with TinyURL, but if not, you may find this to be an invaluable tool/service. All you have to do is go to TinyURL and paste in your extremely long url (web address) and it will convert it into a "Tiny Url" in which you can easily manage for myriad uses.