With Twittermania running rampant, the latest craze is the new social media sharing toolbars that are popping up everywhere. Because Twitter users are limited to only 140 character tweets, url shortening has become essential. Toolbars like HootSuite, Krumlr, and the DiggBar initially sound like a great ideas in that they enable visitors to easily share your content. Read more »

The world is buzzing with Twittermania these days and if you truly understand what Twitter is really about you’re not surprised by all the attention it’s getting. If you don’t understand what Twittering is or you think Twitter is just another stupid time wasting social network, I challenge you to continue reading as I am sure you will not feel the same way about it afterward. I can assure you that Twitter is not a fad or a gimmick and it’s not just the newest breed of social networks. Twitter is a powerful tool that can be used to do many things and it is unlike anything that we have ever seen before. Read more »

In case you haven’t heard, John Mayer was dumped by Jennifer Anniston because he Twitters too much and president Obama has returned to the Twittersphere. These are just a few of the many examples of how the world is becoming so infatuated with the tech juggernaut known as Twitter. Many others including well known politicians, musicians, actors, athletes, bloggers, major news sources, and television personalities are embracing Twitter to effectively connect with their fans. Read more »

Notify.me – This is a notification service that alerts you of any new content that’s added to an RSS feed. I’ve used Yahoo! Alerts, Yotify, and Google Alerts prior to testing and I can say without a doubt that Notify.me beats them all hands down in terms of the least amount of lag time. Using a test blog I measured the elapsed time between the instant an article was published to the RSS feed and the actual time the notification was received from Notify.me. In three separate tests, Notify.me alerts were delivered within one to four minutes after publishing. This is extremely fast in comparison to the others listed below and why Notify.me is an excellent tool for following favorite blogs for which you are interested in commenting as well as other feed based content that is extremely time sensitive. Notify.me can be used for other things such as tracking items on eBay or Craigslist, receiving automatic notification of new job posts, following breaking new stories, and much more. Alerts can be sent to you via SMS, email, instant messaging, or via Notify.me’s own Adobe AIR application. Read more »

Today is a glorious day for T-Mobile G1 owners, whom as of now can download the Loopt app for free from the Google Android Market and install it on their beloved phone.  Loopt, a location based mobile social network, made the announcement today and as of 8 PM CST it had Read more »

I’ve been using a new RSS feed reader for a couple of weeks now called Feedly. While I am a big fan of google reader, I don’t use it that much. I’d rather just visit that actual sites and blogs individually get news and updates. Feedly, on the other hand, has given me reason to think otherwise and use it instead.

Feedly is a Firefox based feed reader that launches directly from my Firefox browser and is directly integrated with Google Reader. Hence, any subscriptions you add to feedly will be added to Google Reader and any article you read or recommend in feedly will be marked as read and shared in Google Read more »

These search engines were built to eliminate the clutter that results from Google’s main search engine. Instead of searching the entire web, these search engines only search sites with relevant content for a given topic. Please suggest any sites that should be added to a given search engine and let us know of any [...] Read more »

Projects require lots of planning, organization, communication, and coordination between members. Popular online project management applications address the following functions in getting things done:

• Project planning
• Task management
• Document sharing
• Contact management
• Time tracking
• Communication tools
• Issue handling
• Reports
• Notifications

After scanning the web in search of the more popular free web-based project management applications available, I gave them all a spin. I have compiled the list below along with a brief summary of their provided features for free accounts.

Central Desktop – This has to be my top pick with it’s straight forward layout and the various different workspace types such as project management, wikis, databases, project blogs, and user forums. The video tutorials make it easy to learn how to Read more »

Using Quantcast analytics from last month (April 2008), I recently compiled data on the most popular social networking sites to determine which ones have the most educated and most wealthy user base. Social networking sites included in the analysis were largely based on the Compete list of top social networks, the total U.S. estimated monthly uniques for the month of April (as reported by Quantcast), and author interest.

No surprises here with MySpace and Facebook at the top. It is interesting to note that Facebook’s Read more »

Juggling your personal, school, and work life and actually getting things done (GTD) can be very challenging. Task managers can help you stay organized and keep you on track. There are a number of web-based applications out there that can get the job done. Most are free and allow you to upgrade for a small fee to gain access to extra features. I have collected a list of them below and graded them according to their ease of use, design, number of features, and integration with other Web applications.

Remember The Milk (A+): Remember The Milk (RTM) is Read more »