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The Mugshot project
Put on your criminal face, download a template, and upload your face to the Mugshot Project.
Amazon plogs
When logging on to Amazon.com today, I was welcomed by this: So what is a “plog”? Amazon defines it as… Your Amazon.com Plog is a personalized web log that appears on your customer home page. Every person’s Plog is different (hence the name) and just like a blog, your Plog is sorted in reverse chronological [...]
Del.icio.us sleeps…
Bookmarking site Del.icio.us has been down for a few days now. The Del.icio.us blog explains why: Due to the power outage earlier in the week, we are dealing with a number of continued hiccups. We’ve taken everything offline to properly rebuild and restore everything. I apologize and hope to have this resolved as soon as [...]
Exporting Safari bookmarks to Del.icio.us
Do you have lots of bookmarks in Safari, that you would like to put on Del.icio.us? Use Safarilicous, the new software from Benedikt Terhechte. It scans through all your Safari bookmarks, and uploads them to Del.icio.us. To help you started with the tags for all your bookmarks, it will use the folder the bookmarks are [...]
Wists is the next web 2.0 site to be bought
The last few months, three of the sites I use a lot has been bought: Flickr, Del.icio.us and Upcoming. All three of them by Yahoo. I think this will make these three sites even better, and I’m not concerned. So who’s next? My bet: Amazon.com will buy Wists.com. Or maybe Yahoo shopping. Why? It fits [...]
Internet makes people social
SO IS THE INTERNET TRULY CREATING CONNECTIONS AMONG PEOPLE? OR DIVIDING US AS WE HIDE INSIDE OUR PRIVATE SHELLS? MOBY, pioneering electronic musician: I have a friend whose Swedish mother–she’s in her mid-60s–goes online to meet men. I was with my friend as he drove her to the Hilton to meet a Canadian doctor she’d [...]
Upcoming
I have used Upcoming for some time to see who’s going to concerts. It’s a nice system, but unfortunately there are quite few users where I live. Hopefully this will change now that Yahoo has bought Upcoming. I have also added my Upcoming events in the left sidebar on the main page (not on individual [...]
