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Friday, June 22, 2007

Funny Microsoft Surface Parody

Do It Yourself; Wikihow and Free Image Hosting

Here are couple of cool new sites that you can use for gathering information and for hosting images online.

I am sure everyone reading this has heard of Wikipedia, but there is a new wiki site that I have been going to lately to gather "How To" information. The site is http://www.wikihow.com/ and I am finding it really useful especially for learning new computer and technical information. What I have discovered so far that has been of most use are how to make a panoramic photo using your normal digital camera, and how to protect your PC from viruses, spyware, and hackers for free. Check it out they haven't steered me wrong yet.

The other site is a good one for do-it-yourself bloggers, website creators or webmasters. You can use this site to host your own images for free, and there are no restrictions as to the image content. The website is http://www.bayimg.com/

Here is a nice image of Elvis that I hosted on their site. So you can see that it works.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites, E-Cards, and Chatting Tools

Again we have been scouring the internet for nice new applications that we can all use to great effect. If you can’t use them then maybe they will at least make you laugh.

It has been a good long while since I received a really nice e-card. You know those cards that you get in an email that are cute or funny and appropriate for whatever event you are celebrating. “Happy birthday” here is an alien smiling with a party hat on - that kind of crap. They seem to have been much more popular about 4 or 5 years ago.

Well I lately found a nice site with quite hilarious e-cards: http://www.someecards.com/ You probably shouldn't send one of these to your mother, but your friends or your enemies might really appreciate them. Here is an example of one of their get well cards.

One of our previous articles centered on the abundance of strange abbreviations that are springing up in conversation and writing that have been originally spawned by the prevalence of chatting and instant messaging. Here is a very long list of chat abbreviations: http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid11_gci211776,00.html

I hope you think this is PANS. If not, UAPITA.

Continuing in the mode of updating our previous topics. it was reported in a recent news article that the next generation of corporate employees will be expecting to have access to Web 2.0 technologies at work. [ http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199905440 ] This means that the newest group of college graduates will expect their employers to use blogs, wikis and social networking applications as part of their business. The article also indicates that if the employers don't concede to their employees requests they will use those Web 2.0 applications on their own while wasting valuable company time.

This is definitely related to generational differences that occur because of the eveolution of the internet and its ubiquitous prescence in the lives of young people. Who, as can be seen here: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm are using the internet and contributing to the online community much more than the generations that preceded them.

Which of those technologies will these youngsters be demanding? Well probably some of the recently elected Top 100 Web 2.0 Sites on the internet for the 2007 year.

On a slightly related note I recently found this internet quote database. The database only accepts quotes from chat logs. But, due to the nature of some of the things people chat about and find noteworthy enough of being added to this database, the quotes listed there can be very funny. If nothing else it is a nice place to go for a few laughs.