Hello folks,

This summer, one of my goals is to get organized and find useful tools that can help me better organize my life, both in the real world and in the online world. Therefore, I’d like to know if you have any suggestions of Web 2.0 sites that I’m not currently using but that I should consider checking out.

Also, if anyone out there actually knows how to use Facebook for useful purposes, I could sure use some help figuring that site out!

Please hie thee hence to the comments section and offer your suggestions. Thanks!

Tags: comments, Facebook, Help, social networking, suggestions, Web 2.0

I don’t know what it is about cartoonists, but somehow they have an uncanny ability to break through all the craziness of our world, find the core, and then present it in a way that makes everyone go “Oh yeah!” The good folks at the Joy of Tech have done this a number of times before, and while I don’t point out every awesome comic that they produce (because it would be occupying too many posts on my blog), one of their latest, Signs You May Need to Get a Life, essentially verifies many of my thoughts about our internet age. Having a Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube may be okay, but there are people who take it to the extreme, and I think that this comic really addresses the central issue behind it: they really need to get a life. Get out of Second Life and pay more attention to your first one!

Anyway, high five to the Joy of Tech folks on this one.

Tags: comic, internet, Joy of Tech, life, thoughts, Web 2.0

Now reporting live from Long Beach, California, where it’s smokey (due to the fires), and I’m up on the 6th floor of a particular hotel with my $10 internet charge paid for, I continue my Tiger-to-Leopard blog series. Yesterday, I started out covering some of the Web 2.0 news, in particular focusing on the various Web 2.0 sites that have emerged on the internet. But what about some of the other phenomena that have emerged since Tiger’s release? The series continues…
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Tags: article, browsers, Firefox, Google, Mac OS X Leopard, podcasting, PodPress, TalkShoe, Tiger-to-Leopard, Web 2.0

It’s Wednesday, which means that the release of Mac OS X Leopard is now less than 60 hours away! Today, I continue with part 3 of my award-winning Tiger-to-Leopard series (well, okay, it hasn’t really won anything, yet), where I take a look at everything that has happened during the 130-week interim between the releases of Mac OS X Tiger and Mac OS X Leopard. Today, I begin my focus on the Web 2.0, which has grown and matured exponentially since early 2005. Now, don’t get confused with the whole “part within a part thing,” but since I have quite a bit of Web 2.0 coverage to, well, cover, I’ll be stretching my Web 2.0 TTL coverage over today and tomorrow. Shall we take a look? (And yes, I promise that this post won’t be the laundry list you saw yesterday.)
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Tags: Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, Mac OS X Leopard, MySpace, phpBB, Tiger-to-Leopard, Twitter, Web 2.0, WordPress, YouTube

I just had to highlight this latest Joy of Tech that just came out, which looks at the claims that Facebook is worth $15 billion. (Should YouTube be getting jealous?) However, what I like about the comic is the representation of Facebook in the middle of the strip about the annoying high school friends. Not that I think that any of my friends at high school are annoying, quite the contrary in fact, but I do think that Facebook is weird with the pokes and the wall and the werewolf stuff and all that crazy nonsense, and this comic represents that rather well. Given my, erm, uncanny experiences with Facebook, I really got a kick out of this comic.

Update: Fixed bad link. Thanks Skoker!

Tags: comic, experiences, Facebook, funny, Joy of Tech, money, sale, Web 2.0

NOTE: All names except for my name have been changed to protect their identity, not that anyone would really care about their identity anyway even if I didn’t cloak them.

Gasp! Douglas is actually using and reviewing a social networking website! Oh my gosh! People predicted that this would never happen until hell froze over, Paris Hilton bought FOX News, and deep-fried pickle hearts started tasting like polish sausages! But this past summer, the tech world was hit by two big storms. The first one was, of course, the iPhone, but the second one was the opening of Facebook’s new Apps API. So this summer I decided, what the heck, I’d see what all of the fuss was about. And so, for this, the thirty-fifth and very last review of my Webmacster87.info Month of Reviews, I’m going to write this review differently than I have all of the past thirty-four reviews: by telling a story. Here is the story of my experiences with Facebook.
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Tags: article, Facebook, friends, network, Personal, rants, review, social networking, Web 2.0

Have you ever wanted to be able to have one central place on the internet that would allow you to keep track of all of the comments and conversations that you have on blogs and Web 2.0 sites? If you’re saying that that idea has never even crossed your mind, then you’ve had the same first reaction that I had to the Web 2.0 site coComment. However, coComment is just that. This site seeks to be a place which can track and share conversations that you have on blogs, sites like Digg and Flickr, and even on sites with absolutely no type of comment form whatsoever. It’s a very intriguing idea, which I decided to check out.
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Tags: Blogging, comments, conversations, friends, review, services, tracking, Web 2.0, web browsing

There’s a lot of corners and niches around the Web 2.0, meaning that your online world is split up among all these places. Mugshot is a website that aggregates your data from most of the major Web 2.0 services out there and display it on a single page for anyone to see, however it’s pretty apparent that the site was designed by someone who couldn’t come up with an original idea of their own.
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Tags: friends, identities, network, photos, review, services, Web 2.0

A few months ago when I was stumbling around with what to use for my e-mail system, I stumbled across a website promoting an application called Mailplane. Mailplane is a dedicated Mac OS X application designed to provide a new way for you to connect to and interact with the web-based Gmail client and help it feel more integrated with your desktop. Being a Gmail user myself, although a Gmail user who currently relies on POP access to use it, I waited a few months to receive my beta invite and gave it a try.
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Tags: email, Gmail, invites, plug-in, review, Software, Web 2.0, web browsing

A few years ago, if someone asked me what I listened to in iTunes, I would say that iTunes was one of my least-used applications. Now, it’s probably one of my most-used, as I’ve assembled a favorites playlist of over 3 hours of stuff (and that’s not even mentioning my holiday music collection). Therefore, one of the things that I experimented with in preparation of Webmacster87.info 5 was a way to share the music that I’m listening to on my blog. What was the tool I chose? Last.fm.
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Tags: feed, friends, iTunes, music, review, sharing, Software, Web 2.0, website, Windows Media