I may have a tendency to give Apple a hard time, but I can’t deny that I was a little bit envious when I heard about their engraving services. When you purchase an iPod from the Apple store, they offer a service where you can have a personal message engraved onto it. Why aren’t more [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2007 by Davis
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Normally, I’ve got a pretty anti-pet policy in life, but even I had to vote for this week’s winner of the site of the week contest. KittenWars is a website where pet owners upload photos of their kittens and where web surfers can then vote on which ones are the cutest. I usually try to [...]
Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Davis
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Over the weekend, I left Casa Del Davis and had to put all of my stuff into storage while I figure out where to call home. While I was packing my stuff into boxes, I came across my very first cell phone. It was an old Nokia 3395. I original got the phone for “free”, [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2007 by Davis
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This week’s winner of the site of the week contest was Walk2Web. Walk2Web is a site that allows you to analyze outgoing links on a particular website or blog. On the site, you enter a domain name and then you can trace how that site might be connected to others. This functionality can come in [...]
Posted on August 7th, 2007 by Davis
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I love the web 2.0 movement, but I still wince every time I hear a wacky web 2.0 name. I’m not sure how each website or company came up with their name, but it’s fair to say that today’s generation of entrepreneurs, did not get straight A’s in spelling during Elementary school. Whether it’s Joost, [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2007 by Davis
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If you’ve ever tried to contact a business for technical or customer support, then you know exactly how frustrating it can be, when you are trying to get a hold of a live agent. Sometimes, the automated phone systems may have the info. that you need, but 9 times out of 10, I’ve found that [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2007 by Davis
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This week’s winner of the site of the week contest was a site that got in early, on the Podcasting craze. Podcast Alley was quick to recognize that people wanted to express themselves via radio and from the start, they built their community around these content creators. Whether it’s been interviewing other podcasters, highlighting some [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2007 by Davis
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The winner of this week’s site of the week contest was Cat With Bow Golf. Cat Golf is an unusual, but highly addictive Japanese flash animation game that was created earlier this year. While I wasn’t able to understand all of the Japanese instructions, the game is pretty easy to figure out, just by playing [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Davis
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This week’s winner of this site of the week contest was Indeed.com. Indeed is your typical job search engine, except on human growth hormones. Instead of of restricting their search to one job site, they aggregate many different jobs listings into one easy to use interface. This can be helpful in many ways. If you [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Davis
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(Warning Song is NSFW) The winner of this week’s site of week award was the innovative music site, iJigg. What makes iJigg so unique is that unlike sites like Pandora or Last FM, they let you find music in a more social environment. Artists are encouraged to upload their tracks to the service, where users [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by Davis
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