Reading MetaFilter tonight, I came across Gives Me Hope, a site that provides all kinds of “something in my eye” anecdotes like the one I related from Noah Evanchuk yesterday. Here's the post from Metafilter: “GivesMeHope (RSS), a site for those “completely exhausted by the negativity of the mainstream media.” Modeled after their polar opposite, […]
Facebook has stolen added a new feature, inspired by Twitter, where you can tag another user by using the “@” sign and then typing the person's name in your status updates. When I was trying it out to tag Shea in a post, I ended with a rhetorical “Is this a Twitter killer?” A few […]
MacLean's has an article about Google Voice and the potential massive impacts it could have on the cellular industry (which is likely a big part of the reason it wasn't allowed in the iPhone App Story – official story about it duplicating existing iPhone features notwithstanding.)“Google Voice’s primary offering to consumers—a single, unchanging phone number—seems […]
[2009-09-17 – Edit: “b” and “c” aren't that close on the keyboard so I wonder what sort of a Freudian slip it was to type “Facecook” in the subject line of this post originally?] A minor trend I've noticed lately is people posting screen caps of funny Facebook threads they come across…“Michael Jackson is dead?““OMG! […]
*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*The Deal With Disability's “About Me” page sums up the purpose of this eye-opening site very nicely…“Hey, I’m Eva. I’m […]
*I'm backdating a few posts to this past weekend to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*CustomizedCoupland is an opportunity for you to design your own cover for his new book – for a price of […]
*I'm backdating a few posts to keep up the illusion that I never leave the front of my computer for such things as camping and otherwise spending quality time with my family.*WhatTheInternetKnowsAboutYou.com uses an unintentional security hole that exists in most browsers – the ability to see which links you've clicked in the past to […]
I hope you enjoy my presentation at your luncheon today and it doesn't make you do this…
Fortune magazine has named Research In Motion, maker of the Blackberry line of products, as the fastest growing company in the world. (Apple came in at 39.)On a more local note, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, came in at #10 due to surging demand for fertilizer in places like China, India and Brazil.
I rarely do Facebook updates so here's a glimpse of how today would be if I did them all the time. 7:11am – Jason is awake before everyone else to attempt to catch up on his usual e-mail backlog. Getting from 130 down to 50 feels like success. 8:27am – some people say leftover pizza […]
