Don’t know what IRL means? Don’t worry. I’ll explain.
There’s been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere about Mindcrushes and Blogcrushes and whether what you see is what you get with either one. Is the infatuation with bloggers who speak to our soul just a passing fancy based on projected images of perfection? Are the [...]
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The New York Times ran an article this weekend about an emerging company, Kosmix, that takes a whole new spin on search. The article describes the Kosmix experience quite well: “For a key word or topic that a user enters, Kosmix gathers content from across the Web to build a sort of multimedia encyclopedia entry [...]
I’ve been having lots of fun lately with an online tool called Wordle. You provide a link or a chunk of text and it spits out a fun, interesting and customizable image, or word cloud. Words are displayed by size based on their frequency. Anything you create on Wordle goes into a gallery that you [...]
Take it from a converted skeptic. Twitter rocks. I used to think it was the ultimate time-suck: typing status messages into a vortex all day long?! You’ve GOT to be kidding me. But as a Web 2.0 lover and prided early adopter, I couldn’t stand not being part of this seemingly-inane yet rapidly-growing phenomenon. Finally, [...]
Seomoz’s Web 2.0 Awards highlight 170 interesting websites in 41 categories, and I always have fun scouring the list for new online applications. Based on winners from their “food” category, here are three recipe sites to add to your repertoire:
Im Cooked
From Seomoz: “An entire site dedicated to food, Im Cooked lets members share recipes, make [...]
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An interesting article ran in the New York Times today: Lose Confidence in Your Bank? Try the Web. The article says that despite people’s growing mistrust in banks, they are placing more trust in online financial management tools. Unlike the economy, registrations are up not down, and people are getting smarter and more disciplined about [...]
