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The Secret Features of StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon, a popular social media site, is a fantastic way to “channel surf” through the web. The StumbleUpon folks were intelligent to set up the system the way that did. Ebay thought so too, having recently purchased them for $75 million. So,...

LinkedIn: Social Networking for All

Many of us have come across LinkedIn at some point or another. You may have heard about it through a friend of colleague, added a contact or 2, and then let your account lay dormant. If you ever hope to promote yourself and/or your blog, you have to get up and get...

WordPress New Beta Version

After 3 months of work, the folks at WordPress have released WordPress 2.3 to Public Beta. According to Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress: (photo source: Wikipedia) Some of the features of 2.3 include plugin and core update notification, built-in tags...

Google Sky Released

For those of you that are big fans of Google Earth, this should be a big treat for you. Google has released a Beta version of Google Sky yesterday, giving users the ability to look around space in the same familiar Google Earth interface. To use Google Sky in Google...

How do you Find the Time to Blog?

With the life and work demands all around us, the question is how to find the time to blog. Like anything, time management for blogging is a must. Here is my quick list on how I spend my time blogging: research and revise. I’m always working on different posts...

Skype: What Really Happened

Now for the moment that we’ve all been waiting for. Many of us have speculated about the different reasons that Skype went down last week. Some said that it was caused by Russian Hackers, but Skype came out to deny this. Skype needed to answer the world, though....

Skype Update – all Systems Go?

I’ve been following Skype’s progress very closely over the past 24 hours, and according to their blog, Villu Arak reports: We’re on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day. An encouraging number of users...

Skype is Down Around the Globe

After I mentioned that Skype was down in my previous post, lots of people started commenting in, telling where they were not able to see Skype as well. So, I put together a handy Google Map showing all the people that wrote in. It was really something to see where...