I’ve been social networking for years. The professional networking site LinkedIn since 2007, Facebook since 2008, and Twitter in 2009. That’s largely how it remained until recently when I got my new wi-fi mini tablet (which I still need to write about). Since getting the portable Android device, I’ve added a few more social networks. [...]
This “holiday” video from Klick is a lipdub montage of the most well-known internet memes of all time. They’re having a contest where whomever can name the most internet memes seen in the video will win an iPad. I was surprised that I already knew more than half of the references. But since I expect [...]
As part of yesterday’s reader roulette I stumbled upon this interactive map from Forbes Magazine which shows where Americans moved from and to in 2008. Click on any county in the nation and it will display black lines representing where people are moving from (in to the county) and red lines representing where people are [...]
I use Google Reader to keep up with dozens of different websites without actually visiting each one. (Click here to learn more about RSS and Google Reader in plain English.) Yesterday I visited my Google Reader while accidentally logged in to a different account that had no subscriptions. The result was the same as if [...]
I was happy to read the news today that YouTube will now be offering “unlisted” as a privacy choice for videos. I’m actually partial towards Vimeo for online video for many reasons, but they only allowed one HD video upload per week for non-paying members. I’ve had to start using YouTube because they don’t limit [...]
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 to build an online library, including offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. One amazing tool of theirs is The Wayback Machine that I mentioned before but they archive so much more digital content too… including old cartoons. Every Friday The [...]
I was just copying some text from an article on the Charlotte Observer to email it to somebody. When I pasted the text into my email it mysteriously included the words “Read More:” followed by a link to the article, even though no such words and link existed in what I copied. For example, I [...]
I’ve contributed tons of content to Wikipedia including dozens of my own photos. Whenever you upload any images to the Wikipedia Commons it is automatically released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. All image files pages clearly state this fact below the photo and even give you the idiot-proof summary of “In short, you [...]
Adsense is a Google product by which you can make money by displaying text ads on websites you own. I started using Adsense on July 7th, 2004. Today I finally received my first ever check from Google! After 5 years, 3 months, and 24 days, I earned a whopping $100.59. That’s 5.1 cents per day [...]