If there’s one thing that keeps my day flowing its music in my headphones; be it through my Zune, Pandora, or streaming a local radio station. My Zune mysteriously lost all its juice shortly after I made it in the office today so I decided to stream KROQ’s Roq of the 80’s station for a change. The streaming station plays in a small player developed by the stations parent company CBS, and has a nice little interface that tells you…
As we kick off 2009 it seems we are already in the midst of some serious noise in the search industry. At the end of 08 we were hit pretty hard with talk of drastic changes to search in 09, and sadly a lot of this talk has carried over into the New Year. A few of the popular opinions that seem to still have quite a bit of steam as we move into 2009 are “rankings are dead”, if…
With Twitter becoming more and more popular with businesses and individuals I thought I would take a moment to share an innovative way I have seen twitter used recently. Many of you probably aren’t familiar with the dark subculture event Bats Day in the Fun Park. The annual event, which celebrated its 10 year anniversary last year started with a small group of about 80 dark subculture scenesters going to Disneyland and has grown into what is being called the…
Ever since it blew up on Twitter back in June of this year I have been an avid user of the microblogging site Plurk. At the beginning I had my qualms with Plurk, but in the end I wound up using Plurk probably just as much, if not more than Twitter. Following the first month of using the service I did a post about Plurk’s karma rewards and how I felt that many of their perks were useless. One in…
Early last month the new social bookmarking site Dwellicious began it’s beta testing and I have been fortunate enough to take part in it. The site, which gained a lot of buzz at this years NAR Convention, is yet another step in the advancement of online real estate. With the recent successes of larger real estate portals like Trulia and Zillow, the online real estate experience is drastically changing. Dwellicious continues this advancement by providing a service unlike anything I…