Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good… Read It!

Monday afternoon, I returned home from work to discover Sarah Lacy ’s new book Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good awaiting retrieval in my mailbox…it is the first package I’ve gotten at my new apartment so I was naturally pretty excited right off the bat. But I did not yet realize the emotional [...]

My Twitter Desktop Welcomes TwitterLocal

I downloaded the desktop AIR application from TwitterLocal yesterday to give it a try and it has been awesome thus far. In case you haven’t heard, TwitterLocal is a tool to create an RSS feed of tweets for your area based off of users’ declared location from twitter. I set one up for [...]

September 29th Web Picks

This edition of my Web Picks is quite the hodge-podge of interesting/useful sites across the internet…

Yuxt is a social video-sharing site that makes for a really easy way to share and host your own video clips or those that you find on other sites. A simple drag-n-drop uploading feature effectively eliminates any learning curve [...]

September 4th Web Picks

Well, after quite the weekend in Las Vegas and the recovery period that followed, I’ve managed to stop planning my return trip long enough to compile this edition of Web Picks. A couple of good sites plus a facebook application and a Google Earth ‘easter egg‘ round out this week’s list:

Natuba is a social [...]

Microsoft’s Tafiti Brings Back The Revolution

UPDATE: 1) Embedded video and added citation 2) Added to described feature set (Tree View) -ac
Microsoft has released a beta version of its newest search feature: Tafiti. Essentially, this is a visual search tool built on Microsoft Live Search and Microsoft Silverlight technology: rather than just listing out our search results, Tafiti creates an [...]

Christmas in August

After months of scouring the internet and posting on numerous message boards, I have finally gotten an invite to 8apps! (As it turns out, Mashable has a pretty awesome system set up for beta invites) So, I’m just getting myself acquainted with this incredible online productivity suite, but within the first five minutes, [...]

Twitter Steps Up The Game…Sort Of

Twitter is a really cool service that asks the simple question “What are you doing?” All you have to do is type in what you are doing in less than 140 characters and it updates your timeline. It is a really cool tool to track what you or your friends have done over [...]

August 17 Web Picks

I haven’t really run across any high quality ‘functional’ sites in the past weeks (most likely due to the fact that most of my past two weeks has been inside a car!), but I’ve hit a couple excellent ‘content’ sites!
I am delineating a ‘functional’ site from a ‘content’ site, because most people use them for [...]

August 5 Web Picks

When I use del.icio.us I try and limit it to articles or subsections of webpages, rather than just a general link to the homepage of some web service, etc…. So in order to chronicle the best overall websites that I discover in any given week, I’ve decided to just post them here with a quick [...]