Travel, life-improvement, social networks — It’s all there on the web. Here are a few feel-good sites to visit:
Goodreads - A social network for book readers. List your books and review them. See what your friends and others are reading. Look up book reviews from other readers.
Swaptree - Trade books, music, and DVDs with [...]
I have spoken in the past about delegating. It’s becoming a much larger trend, now with services popping up overseas in, where else, India. Blogs and news articles discuss outsourcing your personal tasks. Now companies like Your Man In India, Get Friday, and AskSunday allow you to outsource individual tasks or projects and pay by [...]
What was the fasting rising Google search of 2007? iPhone. Google’s 2007 Year-End Zeitgeist was recently released and showcases the “collective consciousness” of our world and the top newsmakers.
It also clues us into the consciousness of the Presidential campaign:
It’s also been an exciting year for celebrity happenings. February was a spike in Britney Spears searches [...]
Not sure if you’ve seen the power of Google Maps’ newish Street View feature. They’ve recently expanded and now feature 360 degree street-level photography in 21 US cities.
I’ve just recently discovered it since they’ve expanded to Boston. I would say that 95% of streets in Boston are covered. Google used special cameras attached to vehicles [...]
Slate’s Chad Lorenz has brought up an interesting insight: Is email dying?
It seems that us young people are foregoing email for other messaging mediums like IM, Twitter, and Facebook messages. Forget old fashioned email party invites: It’s a Evites, Facebook or Google event invites. But maybe that’s slow. You might as well RSVP by IM!
Personally, [...]
As we head into the new year, it’s important to look back and see what events occurred that will lead us into future trends. Trendwatching.com has compiled a fantastic report on important consumer trends that will take center stage in 2008.
Items like the iPhone has created a revolution about “status spheres”. It’s all about lifestyle [...]
Today at work someone sent me a blog link that got me laughing harder than I ever have. I couldn’t control myself. Johnny Virgil writes a blog called 15 Minute Lunch, in which he posts many humorous entries about all sorts of things he encounters. It turns out that the other day he found a [...]
This is absolutely amazing! I can’t tell you how long I’ve been looking for the ultimate way to track your spending. It’s here.
I have been creating spreadsheets to tracking spending, following a detailed budget, and entering every single transaction I have into a banking program. That’s all fine and good at the micro-level, but here [...]
This is generating a bit of buzz. Channel Federator, the net’s place for cartoons and animation has presented, internet pop culture in three minutes.
This is a tribute to the internet celebrities of the past couple years, the Numa Numa Guy, the nervous sportscaster, lonelygirl15, Shoes, Dick in a Box, and so much more. Love it.
Playboy is 54 years old and apparently their readership is declining. In response to that and to contribute to the world of social networking, they have launched Playboy U. The non-nude social network is open only to college students and requires a .edu email. “Sorry, but high schoolers, old dudes and your Mom can’t join,” [...]
