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Comics 2.0 2008-03-09 08:34:18 Toon creating services appear to be the hottest trend these days. A whole new crop have sprouted up all of a sudden. Here’s a rundown of the best of breed. Trust me, there are many more that just aren’t as good as these selected services. Many of them just offer the ability to add captions [...] Read more:Comics
Web 2.0 vs Web 3.0 2008-03-08 04:14:50 Web 2.0 is still alive & kicking but everyone is already focussing on Web 3.0. What is Web 3.0? Well, the old adage is true: a picture is worth a thousand words. With that said, I will let the following images and videos explain the differences between web 2.0 and web 3.0 otherwise known as [...]
8 Things You Didn’t Know (and more!) 2008-03-07 11:33:46 Thanks to Merlene, I’ve been tagged to share 8 things about Pai that most people wouldn’t know.
OK, I added a little more than 8 things but it’s a visual so it won’t take too long to read.
Live MindMap of 8 Things about Paisano (and more)
Here’s a static image of the mindmap
Here are the next 8 people [...]
Pop Goes the World? 2008-03-07 00:44:31 The pundits are still doing their best impression of chicken little and firmly believe that the web 2.0 bubble is going to burst any moment now. Despite this constant falling sky warning there are new startups popping up all over the place. Are we headed for another disaster? Who knows. In the mean time, keep [...] Read more:Pop Goes
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Twitterture 2008-03-06 04:37:56 As much as I love Twitter, the sad truth is that its strict 140-character limit is both its strength as well as its weakness. The trick is learning when to use twitter and how to use it.
It truly has evolved into its own form of communication with its own unique rules of grammar and spelling. [...]
e-Graveyard 2008-03-05 01:18:52 e-Graveyard
is a wiki that I started a long time ago. Its primary purpose is to become a digital museum of all the amazing technologies that come and go in our lives. There are some new sites that cover some of this ground like the TechCrunch DeadPool but they just focus on dead websites which is [...]
Free Microsoft Project Clone 2008-03-04 03:46:13 OpenProj is a free and open source version of the most popular (and expensive) project management application, MicrosoftProject
. Yes, that’s right, free. Not only can it create project files that can be shared with Microsoft Project users but OpenProj can actually open Microsoft Project files as well! It becomes in essense a Project viewer [...]
Clustrmaps 2008-03-03 03:25:48 Clustrmaps is a free widget for blogs that simply shows you where in the world your readers are coming from. There aren’t a lot of bells and whistles, just a nice visible view of your audience.
It updates all the time so the map isn’t that out of date. It’s really easy to embed the code [...]
OneClick OpenID: ClickPass 2008-03-11 02:08:12 I’ve been a longtime supporter of OpenID
but I will admit that it’s not as easy to use as it should be. There are far too many hoops to jump thru and too many clicks to use your OpenID account instead of creating yet another new one. Identity Crisis covers OpenID in more depth if [...]
AntiSocial Network 2008-03-10 02:23:45 While having lunch without my trusty laptop and its aircard, I rather enjoyed being outside with a new book I’ve been meaning to read. It was a pleasant change of pace being “offline” and “disconnected” from the world for a brief period of time. Sure, I still had my Blackberry but I turned it off [...]
Free Online Quickbooks Clones for Bus… 2008-03-15 04:21:42 Intuit’s QuickBooks is arguably the king of accounting systems for small to medium sized companies. They sell standalone as well as online versions. The pricing for QuickBooks Online runs either $4.95/month for basic account or $16.95/month for Pro version.
Here’s a crop of QuickBooks Clones
that offer less expensive alternatives and in some cases even FREE [...] Read more:Quickbooks
LinkBunch 2008-03-17 10:50:18 LinkBunch is a simple but extremely useful little service that lets you send multiple hyperlinks with a single short hyperlink. Nothing more, nothing less.
Just go to and enter all of the hyperlinks you want to share on a service like Twitter or via email or instant messaging and click the bunch button.
LinkBunch will create [...]
Best Mobile Map Services 2008-03-16 21:41:06 Mapping services for mobile devices that pinpoints your location with or without a GPS are all the rage these days. They’re able to perform this without GPS thanks to the ever-growing number of WiFi networks all across the country. The more wireless hotspots that are added to the grid the more accurate and powerful the [...] Read more:Mobile
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Classic Computer Games 2008-03-18 05:37:25 I remember the first time my older brothers played PONG. My little brother and I were speechless and watched with jaws dropped and in amazement. We held countless tournements and loved that black and white game. Looking at the games of today in comparison is absolutely unbelievable. We’ve come a long way.
Here’s a screenshot of [...] Read more:Classic
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I.T. Happens! No.6 2008-03-25 10:43:11 “What’s in a name?”
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Twitter is this generation’s CB Radio 2008-03-24 19:32:40 Everyone is going ga ga over twitter these days but it reminds me of a similar communications craze that swept the country way back in the 1970s when I was tiny little Pai. I’m talking about CB (Citizens’ Band) Radio
which reached its peak of populariy in 1975/1976 with the hit song “CONVOY” by C.W. [...] Read more:Twitter
Writing 2.0 2008-03-28 10:07:41 Writers have always been resistent to change when it comes to accepting new technology as useful tools. It probably started with writing instrument replacements such as the quill, pen, pencil and later the typewriter which most writers resisted in the beginning. Ultimately, these new gadgets all became a common writing instruments. The same thing [...]
How Safe Is Your Neighborhood? 2008-03-26 22:34:01 This is not going to be a pleasant experience so brace yourself. This is about finding out information that you really don’t want to know about your neighborhood, but trust me this is important and worth doing. Thanks to technology you are now able to perform a search for all registered sex offenders in your [...] Read more:Neighborhood
Sideways 2.0 2008-03-26 13:31:20 When Gary Vaynerchuk met Robert Scoble recently I had an idea for a sequel to the popular movie “SIDEWAYS“. Imagine GaryVee and Scoble in the lead roles as two web-savvy guys whose mission is to turn the usually stuffy wine industry upside down! It would be semi-auto-biographical as Gary has done just that with his [...] Read more:Sideways
43 People Places and Things 2008-03-29 23:16:35 The following three sites are excellent ways to help you accomplish your goals of meeting the people you most want to meet, places you want to visit and things you want to accomplish in life. The best part of these services is the social network aspect which allows you to communicate with those people who [...] Read more:Places
Secrets of the Startup Sages 2008-03-31 14:48:36 What better way to learn how to launch a startup than to get advice from those who’ve proven to be successful with their own startups? Here is a collection of excellent wisdom and advice from some of the best startup sages in web history. Also included are links to their blogs and twitter profiles. Both [...] Read more:Secrets
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Twitter Hashtags and Groups 2008-04-04 10:15:07 As your list of friends grows on Twitter
, the amount of messages that scroll across your screen increases exponentially. Pretty soon it becomes impossible to catch messages directed your way in real-time. Ultimately you have to resort to backtracking or using a search tool like TweetScan (R.I.P Terraminds!). Increasingly members of the Twitter community are [...] Read more:Groups
Tweeties: Breakfast of Social Media Champions! 2008-04-08 10:50:51 Chris Brogan’s secret is exposed! How does he churn out such quality stuff every day?
Well, he starts his morning with a big ole bowl of TWEETIES! The breakfast of social media champions!
Happy birthday to Chris Brogan!
Not only a great blogger, but a great guy and great friend. Read more:Breakfast
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TwitterClouds 2008-04-08 20:13:10
DaCort has done it again. He’s taken an already cool twitter tool, TweetSTATS and made it even cooler and more useful by giving us our very own TweetCloud!
Not only can we view all kinds of cool statistics about our Twitter usage but now we can see what we and others tweets the most about! Some [...]
Social Network for Feelings? 2008-04-10 11:16:58 At first, many of you will think Moonri.se is a silly and useless idea. Who would want a service that is basically a twitter for emotions and feelings? Can’t we just post how we feel already on Twitter, our blogs and other mediums? Sure, we can and we do, but Moonrise does it in a [...] Read more:Feelings
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