Tuesday, March 09, 2010
The Best Cities for Working Mothers [infographic]
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Mint.com created an interactive infographic of America’s best cities for working mothers. The map is based on data from Forbes.com. Factors considered include: salary, comprehensive benefits, safe neighborhoods, schools, parks, childcare and medical care.Infographic: The Best Cities for Working Mothers
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Jon Stewart Explores Chatroulette [video]
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Jon Stewart from THE DAILY SHOW encounters several reporters and naked masturbating men as he explores Chatroulette.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Terrible 80's Pickup Lines [video]
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Does your significant other complain that you're not "romantic" enough? Need some clever stuff to say tomorrow for Valentine's Day? Perhaps this dating video from the 1980's might help/hurt your efforts.After coughing up a few of these terrible pickup lines, simple everyday conversation like "Please pass the salt" will sound romantic.
Here are some of our favorite lines from the video. Enjoy!
- I'm an executive by day and wild man by night.
- Hi my name is Phil. Most of my good friends call me big Phil.
- I'm not afraid to get sand on my Tuxedo.
- I do fashion photography.
- I consider myself a refined valley dude.
- Who so binds to himself a joy thus a winged life destroy.
- I'm looking for the Goddess. Are you the Goddess?
- I'm a 25 year subscriber to both Playboy and The New Yorker.
- At night I operate a damsel in distress hot line. I guess you'd call me at night.
- I'm just sugar and spice and all those things that are nice.
- I like to wear bright socks.
- Life is a playground and I want somebody to play with.
- I will cry at a commercial.
- I'm interested in most phases of data processing.
- Type "A" I'm not. Comfortable, caring and serious about a relationship I am.
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Monday, February 01, 2010
How to Get a RSS Feed of Your Facebook Status Updates
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Want to get Facebook status updates as a RSS feed? Facebook doesn't make it easy AT ALL. But all you need to know are your 3 Facebook numbers: facebook_id, your_internal_key and your_friend_key. Once you have these 3 numbers, you can copy and paste them into a custom RSS feed for your status, the status of your friends, all notifications or links from you or your friends. You can then take this custom RSS feed and do things like put into widgets or Hootsuite and feed it into your Twitter account.Making your custom Facebook RSS feed is easy. Just follow the steps below.
Step #01: Go to your Facebook Notifications Page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/notifications.php
Step #02: Click on the “Your Notifications” link on the page.
You should now see a RSS feed of all your notifications being displayed in your web browser.
The structure of the link is as follows:
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=YOUR_FACEBOOK_ID&viewer=YOUR_FACEBOOK_ID&key= YOUR_INTERNAL_KEY&format=rss20
There are 3 numbers in this URL. The number that follows “id” is your Facebook ID number. This number appears twice. The last number is your Facebook Internal Key. Copy these numbers and set them aside.
Step #03: Go to your Facebook Friends Page:
http://www.facebook.com/friends/?ref=tn
Step #04: Click on the “Friends Status’ Feed” link on the page.
You should now see a RSS feed of your friends’ activities. The URL will look like this:
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friends_key&format=rss20
The second number is your Facebook Friends Key. Copy this number and put it aside.
Step # 05: Create the RSS URLs
Once you have your 3 Facebook numbers (facebook_id, your_internal_key and your_friend_key), you’re ready to make your custom RSS feeds. All you have to do to is copy and paste them into the link structures below.
Status Feed
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=your_facebook_id&viewer=your_facebook_id&key=your_internal_key&format=rss20
Notifications Feed
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=your_facebook_id&viewer=your_facebook_id&key=your_internal_key&format=rss20
Friends Status Feed
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friends_key&format=rss20
Friends Links Feed
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/share_friends_posts.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friend_key&format=rss20
Friends List Feed
http://www.new.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=your_facebook_id&key=your_friend_key&format=rss20
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Crazy Kid Jumps Bus [video]
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Despite being on the internet for over a year, Police are now looking for the kid in this bus jumping video. In the clip, the kid jumps off a raised walkway, onto the top of a bus and then off the bus and into oncoming traffic.Ironically, all the Police attention has now made the clip more popular than ever. We wonder if the kid is even still alive. Who knows what other stunts he's done this past year.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
@Astro_TJ Writes The 1st Tweet from Space
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It's official, the Internet now spans beyond our puny planet Earth.For the past month, Astronaut TJ Creamer has been working with NASA flight control to get Internet access in the International Space
Station. NASA's IT wizards were finally able to connect the space station to the Internet by giving a laptop in orbit remote access to a desktop computer in Mission Control. It isn't fast, but at least now Astronauts can get occasional access to the Internet... including email and Twitter.
TJ took advantage of his Internet connection yesterday to send the first ever tweet from space.
His tweet read:
"Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s"
What's next? Maybe @Astro_TJ will check-in on FourSquare from The International Space Station. We wonder if there's a badge for that yet? :)
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Friday, December 18, 2009
Too Dumb for Facebook [pic]
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What’s worse than risking your health by eating a piece of raw chicken for a bet? How about bragging about it and being completely unaware of the existence of salmonella. What’s worse than that? Confusing salmonella with salmon.Some people are just too dumb for Facebook.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Sirius Releases The History of Howard Stern Act III - Timeline Widget
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Sirius Releases The History of Howard Stern Act III - Timeline Widget
Got a Sirius satellite radio? Are you a Howard Stern fan? Act III of the award-winning radio documentary series, The History of Howard Stern, premiers December 21, 2009. The series revisits the legendary career and achievements of the self proclaimed The King of All Media.
To help promote the series, Sirius created a fun timeline widget that allows you to scroll through Stern's career and listen to sound bites. The widget covers everything from Cruified By The FCC and Fart Man to Sterns' best selling book Private Parts.
If you don't already have a Sirius radio, there's still time to pick one up or subscribe to their web only streaming service.
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Got a Sirius satellite radio? Are you a Howard Stern fan? Act III of the award-winning radio documentary series, The History of Howard Stern, premiers December 21, 2009. The series revisits the legendary career and achievements of the self proclaimed The King of All Media.To help promote the series, Sirius created a fun timeline widget that allows you to scroll through Stern's career and listen to sound bites. The widget covers everything from Cruified By The FCC and Fart Man to Sterns' best selling book Private Parts.
In the mid '90s, the radio pioneer was thrust into the national spotlight as a best-selling author, unlikely political figure and an undeniable pop culture force in both radio and television. The 2-week special features hours of archival clips from Howard's personal vault, plus never-before-heard interviews from The Howard Stern Show staff, friends, family, former colleagues and some of the biggest names in entertainment. It's a must hear for Stern fans everywhere.
If you don't already have a Sirius radio, there's still time to pick one up or subscribe to their web only streaming service.
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Sunday, December 06, 2009
The Greatest Christmas Decoration Ever [pic]
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This is from one of our readers. Enjoy:
"Good news is that I truly out did myself this year with my Christmas decorations. The bad news is that I had to take him down after 2 days. I had more people come screaming up to my house than ever.Great stories. But two things made me take it down.
First, the cops advised me that it would cause traffic accidents as they almost wrecked when they drove by.
Second, a 55 year old lady grabbed the 75 pound ladder almost killed herself putting it against my house and didn't realize it was fake until she climbed to the top (she was not happy). By the way, she was one of many people who attempted to do that. My yard couldn't take it either. I have more than a few tire tracks where people literally drove up my yard."
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Free Invites for the BlogAds Network
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Attention bloggers. Want to join the BlogAds Network? We have 44 sponsor invites and less than 25 days to give them away. Why? BlogAds.com is discontinuing the sponsorship program. So if you have a good blog with decent traffic and want to join, then email us asap. Membership in the Blogads Network is by invitation only.If you're not already familiar with BlogAds, it's a premium advertising service which lets advertisers display large ads on your site (text and image). See the ads on the top left of methodshop.com? Those are BlogAds. You can learn more about BlogAds.com here.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Captain Kirk is Climbing a Mountain [video]
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Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain? To hug it? Envelop it? Challange it? Is he in love with the mountain? Does he want to make love to the mountain? Yes, he probably does.
The video below is a remix of some raw promotional video that Willam Shatner did for 1989's Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier. In the video, Shatner starts rambling and attempting to apply a deeper meaning to his character climbing a mountain in the film. Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain? Actually, that's a really good question.
VIDEO: Captain Kirk is Climbing a Mountain
The video below is a remix of some raw promotional video that Willam Shatner did for 1989's Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier. In the video, Shatner starts rambling and attempting to apply a deeper meaning to his character climbing a mountain in the film. Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain. Why is he climbing a mountain? Actually, that's a really good question.
VIDEO: Captain Kirk is Climbing a Mountain
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Monday, October 05, 2009
Woman Survives Tree Branch Through Neck [video]
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Michelle Childers is lucky to be alive after a tree branch went through her neck during a drive through the Montana countryside.The incident occurred as Childers rode in the front passenger seat during a drive with her husband in a remote area along the Lochsa River. The couple rounded a blind curve too fast and a stray branch struck Michelle and pierced her through the neck. The couple then had to drive over an hour to a lodge to get medial attention.
In this video by Washington TV station KHQ, Childers describes an "explosion" of green and a "strange" pressure on her neck and shoulder, along with her confusion at her husband's sudden alarm.
WARNING: Some of the images in this video are graphic.
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Terrible 80's Pickup Lines [video]
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Does your significant other complain that you're not "romantic" enough? Perhaps this dating video from the 1980's might help set them straight.After coughing up a few of these terrible pickup lines, simple everyday conversation like "Please pass the salt" will sound romantic.
Here are some of our favorite lines from the video. Enjoy!
- I'm an executive by day and wild man by night.
- Hi my name is Phil. Most of my good friends call me big Phil.
- I'm not afraid to get sand on my Tuxedo.
- I do fashion photography.
- I consider myself a refined valley dude.
- Who so binds to himself a joy thus a winged life destroy.
- I'm looking for the Goddess. Are you the Goddess?
- I'm a 25 year subscriber to both Playboy and The New Yorker.
- At night I operate a damsel in distress hot line. I guess you'd call me at night.
- I'm just sugar and spice and all those things that are nice.
- I like to wear bright socks.
- Life is a playground and I want somebody to play with.
- I will cry at a commercial.
- I'm interested in most phases of data processing.
- Type "A" I'm not. Comfortable, caring and serious about a relationship I am.
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Ahoy darlin! It's Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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"Ahoy darlin'! Prepare to be boarded!"
Have you noticed people randomly talking like pirates today? Are you wondering why several major websites have added pirate flags to their logos.Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. The parody holiday was invented in 1995 by John Baur ("Ol' Chumbucket") and Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy") who proclaimed September 19th each year as the day when everyone should talk like a pirate.
For example, an observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello," but with "Ahoy, me hearty!" Here are a few Pirate Pickup Lines if you decide to hit the bars after work and want to go home with a mate:
10 . Avast, me proud beauty! Wanna know why my Roger is so Jolly?
9. Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm?
8. Come on up and see me urchins.
7. Yes, that is a hornpipe in my pocket and I am happy to see you.
6. I'd love to drop anchor in your lagoon.
5. Pardon me, but would ya mind if fired me cannon through your porthole?
4. How'd you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?
3. Ya know, darlin’, I’m 97 percent chum free.
2. Well blow me down?
1. Prepare to be boarded.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Pirate Bay - Sold!
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The torrent community is in mourning today.Yesterday, The Pirate Bay, was sold to Global Gaming Factory (GGF), a Stockholm-based software developer and Internet/gaming cafe franchise. GGF plans to add a compensation model to the existing Pirate Bay infrastructure and turn it legal.
GGF will reportedly pay $60 million Swedish Kronor, or $7.8 million dollars, for the the notorious P2P file sharing service. GGF also acquired Peerialism, the technology company that originally developed The Pirate Bay's file sharing platform.
"We would like to introduce models which entail that content providers and copyright owners get paid for content that is downloaded via the site," said Hans Pandeya, CEO of GGF in a press release.
Last week The Pirate Bay lost their appeal in Swedish court for a retrial. In April, the site's 3 founders were found guilty of aiding copyright infringement, given a $3.9 million dollar fine and sentenced to a year in jail.
So what's next for the Pirate Bay founders? How are they going to spend their $60 million Swedish Kronor? After they pay off their fine, the founders plan on putting the money into a foundation to promote the "freedom of speech, freedom of information and the openness of the nets." Does that mean another torrent file-sharing service? We'll just have to wait and see.
If you are interested in learning how to download files using torrents, here's a BitTorrent tutorial.
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Internet Temporarily Crippled By Michael Jackson Mourners
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The sudden death of the King of Pop last week was both a curse and blessing for many websites and social networking services. According to Akamai's news net usage index, traffic to news sites increased an average of 20%, but the increased traffic caused server outages everywhere.Even the mighty Google wasn't immune to traffic surge issues. At one point last Thursday, Google News had to temporarily block all "Michael Jackson" search requests. Google's systems incorrectly thought they were under a "denial of service" attack meant to crash their servers.
Google was able to stay online by adding the temporary block, but other sites, including Jackson's official website and London's O2 concert venue, where Jackson was set to kick off his 50-date come back tour next month, weren't so lucky.
Wikipedia administrators also had to take protective measures. Michael Jackson's Wikipedia page had to be locked down after users accessed it over 1 million times in less than an hour.
And let's not forget Twitter. The social networking site's activity almost tripled as millions of users tweeted real time information of Jackson's arrival at the hospital, rumors of a coma and eventually confirmation of his death. As a result of all the extra traffic, Twitter's Fail Whale error page made multiple unwanted cameos on Thursday and Friday.
Online retailers were the lucky ones. Their servers weren't bombarded with curious people looking for information, but by mourners looking to remember Jackson and purchase some of his music. As news of Jacko's death spread, sales of his music on iTunes and Amazon.com skyrocketed. Currently 6 of the top 10 selling songs on iTunes are Jackson's.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Fake Air France 447 Crash Footage from LOST Dupes Bolivian TV Station
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Have you gotten any emails lately with photos from inside Air France Flight 447 moments before it crashed? Since last Friday, an email has been making the rounds on the Internet with 2 photo attachments claiming to have been recently recovered from a passengers broken camera at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Although very detailed, the email was just a cruel hoax. The photos are actually screen grabs from the JJ Abrams American TV series Lost, a fictional drama about a group of plane crash survivors stranded on a mysterious island in the Pacific.But the fake photos and the elaborate description fooled a lot of people including PAT, a television station in Bolivia. The station aired the photographs during a nightly news report. After viewers recognized the photos and called the station in protest, an embarrassed news director issued a statement apologizing and saying that the photographs came to the station via the Internet. Remember, when in trouble, blame the Internet.
Eagle eyed viewers might notice that the photographs feature well-known actress Evangeline Lilly, who plays Kate Austen from the TV series Lost. The photos are also in a wide screen format, which is more commonly used in TV and film production. And the most obvious clue that the images are fake, is the time of day. Flight 447 was a nighttime flight. The images here where clearly taken during daylight.
For comparison purposes, both the Bolivian news report and the plane crash scene from Lost can be seen below.
Here's the exact text from the June 19th hoax email accompanying the photos:
"Feel so sad for all the passengers including the extraordinary photographer, who kept his cool even in his last moments of life and took this photo. Hats off to him!!! the world saw the disappearance of an A330 Air France during a trans Atlantic flight between Rio to Paris.
Two shots taken inside the plane before it crashed. Unbelievable!
The two photos attached were apparently taken by one of the passengers, and before the aircraft crashed. The photos were retrieved from the camera's memory stick. You will never get to see photos like this. In the first photo, there is a gaping hole in the fuselage through which you can see the tailplane and vertical fin of the aircraft. In the second photo, one of the passengers is being sucked out of the gaping hole.
These photos were found in a digital Casio Z750, amidst the remains . Although the camera was destroyed, the Memory Stick was recovered. Investigating the serial number of the camera, the owner was identified as Paulo G. Muller, an actor of a theatre for children known in the outskirts of Porto Alegre. It can be imagined that he was standing during the impact with the Embraer Legacy and during the turbulence, he managed to take these photos, just seconds after the tail loss the aircraft plunged. So the camera was found near the cockpit. The structural stress probably ripped the engines away, diminishing the falling speed, protecting the electronic equipment but not unfortunately the victims. Paulo Muller leaves behind two daughters, Bruna and Beatriz."
The Air France aircraft was carrying 216 passengers and a crew of 12 when it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off of Brazil on June 1st.
The origin of the hoax email has not yet been determined.
Do you think the Bolivian news director still has a job?
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Surving the Twitpocalypse
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Where were you during the Twitpocalypse? On June 12, 2009 at 23:52:04 GMT, the number of Twitter status updates exceeded 2,147,483,6471, the limit for 32-bit signed integers. This caused many 3rd party Twitter apps to break or start malfunctioning. The developers at WhereCloud even setup Twitpocalypse.com to help track the impending doom many Twitter applications were facing.
June 12th came and went. So what happened? Was the Twitpocalypse over hyped like the Y2K bug? Actually, a lot of Twitter applications did indeed crash and burn. You can track the aftermath of the Twitpocalypse and the current status of your favorite app on Twitter using the #Twitpocalypse hash tag.
The good news is, the world didn't end and the Twittersphere lives on... it's just slightly more buggy. As it says on Twitpocalypse.com, "The tweets must flow"!
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Google Street View: Getting Laid Edition [pic]
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Google has been known to capture controversial images with their Google Earth satellites and Google Street View camera before. Since it was launched in 2007, Google Street View has drawn complaints from individuals and institutions (including the Pentagon) that have been photographed. When you are photographing the entire planet, you are bound to capture a few embarrassing moments.For example, let's examine the images here of a half-naked girl talking to a guy in a van. The images were captured by a Google Street View car just south of Madrid, Spain (GoogleSightseeing).
What exactly are we looking at here? Is she a "working girl"? Hold on! Let's not jump to conclusions. Maybe it was a really hot day and this young lady was just looking for an ice cream truck. Maybe there's a pool nearby. Or maybe it's laundry day and the only thing clean was her orange thong. And maybe the guy in the dirty windowless van is just asking for directions... maybe not.
Want more? Whores in Madrid are just the beginning! Here are some more things Google has captured on camera:
- The Biggest Sony PSP on Earth
- Comet Craters Found Using Google Earth
- Aliens in Area 51
- Maxim Models from Space
- Giant iPods
- LARP Nerds Busted Near Pittsburgh
- Naked People on Google Earth
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
How to Tweet Video Clips on Twitter Using BubbleTweet
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Can't fully express yourself with Twitter's 140-character limit? It can be tough. And sometimes plain text just isn't enough. Luckily services like TwitPic and Ping.fm allow us to embed picture links in our tweets. But what about video? There are actually a few services helping bring video to Twitter and BubbleTweet is one of the best.A "BubbleTweet" is a short video clip that plays in a"bubble video player" that floats on top of your Twitter page. That's right. When one of your Twitter followers clicks on your BubbleTweet URL, the video clip plays on top of your Twitter page. Then, when the video is done playing, the player "pops" and goes away. It's simple, easy to use and just plain fun.
Besides a Twitter account, all you need to start BubbleTweeting is an existing video clip or a webcam. Ready to make your first BubbleTweet? The tutorial link below will walk you through the process step-by-step.
Tutorial: How to tweet video clips on Twitter using BubbleTweet
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Monday, June 01, 2009
Twootles: Search Google and Twitter At the Same Time
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It's probably only a matter of time until Google integrates Twitter tweets into their search results. But until that day comes, there's Twootles.Twootles a simple but web service that let's you search on Google and Twitter at the same time and will displays both results side-by-side. That's all that Twootles does right now but the developers promise that more features are on their way. You can give Twootles a try at twootles.com.
Still not sure what this "Twitter" thing is all about? This methodshop.com tutorial might shed some light on your problem.
Tutorial: How to Explain Twitter to Your Grandma
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Friday, May 15, 2009
Tornado Chaser FAIL [video]
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It takes a lot of guts to be a Tornado Chaser. But it also takes a lot of smarts. Most "Tornado Chasers" are scientists or meteorologists who are chasing Tornadoes to gather scientific data and are pretty good about keeping a safe distance from their subjects... this guy, not so much.
"At first I got within a hundred yards and that was enough, but it was hard to judge its movement and later it caught up to me and passed over the car! This was in Novinger Missouri around 5:50pm 13 MAY 2009. I shouldn't have followed that cop to pull over...I didn't see behind me how close it was and it was too late."
The camera work is a little shaky, but he was driving 100 MPH in the rain with a camera in his hand and a tornado on his ass. Who knows, maybe this amateur Tornado Chaser has a death wish. As you might imagine, the clip is spreading like wildfire on the Internets.
WARNING: Kids, don't try this at home.
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Monday, May 04, 2009
Yappler - Your Twitter Lifespan
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Twitter first launched in 2006. But the social networking service only reached critical mass recently when everyone from Martha Stewart to 'Good Morning America' signed up.Although some people are just discovering Twitter, many of us have been tweeting for several years now. What about yourself? How long have you been on Twitter? Not exactly sure? Michael from @YapplerStream created an app that shows you how many days you've been tweeting and your Twitter join date.
The Yappler app can also come in handy if you're unsure about following someone on Twitter and want to check them out. Many times spam marketers will join Twitter and follow as many people as possible. Eventually the Twitter staff will track them down and delete their account. But if you are followed by some random tweeter, use this app to see how long they've been using Twitter. If they've been using Twitter for several months or years, then congrats you have a social networking fan. But if they just joined Twitter 5 minutes ago, then beware. It looks like you have a spammer chasing you around.
Now stop wasting company time tweeting. Follow @methodshop and get back to work!
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Google Maps Webcam Layer
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If you've pressed the "More" button lately when using Google Maps, you might have noticed a new layer feature called Webcams. In addition to being able to see real time "Traffic," and a "Street View" for a specific location, you can now see live video from any nearby webcams. It's a really handy layer for Google Maps users. For example, the next time you want to check out Lincoln Tunnel traffic, you can see Google's traffic data as well as a live camera outside the entrance and exits.
The available cameras in the Google Maps Webcam later are compiled by the http://Webcams.travel.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Domino's Response: Fighting a Social Media Nightmare with Social Media
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What should a major fast food chain, like Domino's Pizza, do when two employees create a PR nightmare by posting videos of themselves tampering with customer's food on YouTube?A few years ago, the typical corporate response might have been to pull the videos off the Internets, hide their heads in the sand like an ostrich and wait for the PR storm to pass.
But like fighting fire with fire, Domino's smartly chose to fight their social media nightmare using social media. Patrick Doyle, president of Domino's USA, quickly posted a video response to the "Disgusting Domino's Pizza Employees" video on YouTube and setup a Twitter account (@dpzinfo) to answer questions from concerned customers. As a result, Domino's is being praised for their actions and might be able to spin this public relations disaster into something slightly positive.
The "Disgusting Domino's Pizza Employees" videos had already spread across the Internet like wildfire and there was no way the company would have been able to pull all the videos and contain the damage. The videos, filmed at a Conover, NC Domino's Pizza, had already been embedded on thousands of blogs (including methodshop.com) and social networking profile pages. Confronting the problem with honesty and speaking directly to the public using social media was a very wise decision.
Hopefully Domino's sales won't be too bad. But we wouldn't expect customers to flock back to the local Conover, NC location anytime soon.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Disgusting Domino's Pizza Employees [video]
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Want to generate a ton of bad press for your company and get yourself fired before the end of the day? Yes?! Then there's a lot that can be learned from these two Domino's Pizza employees from Conover, North Carolina.The Domino's workers posted a video on YouTube of themselves blowing boogers and farting on customer's food. YouTube users were so disgusted, they not only posted thousands of comments on the video, but tracked down which Domino's Pizza store the video was made and complained to Domino's corporate office. As a result, the two employees in this video were fired only hours after posting the video on YouTube. They claim the video was only a joke and the food wasn't served. If you rather not take your chances, you might want to avoid this Domino's Pizza location until further notice:
Domino's Pizza
509 10th St Nw
Conover, NC 28613
USA
Yuck! If YouTube takes the video down, you can watch it here at this alternate location online.So what do the big shots at Domino's Pizza's corporate headquarters think about all this extra attention they've been getting online? According to this video response on YouTube by Patrick Doyle, president of Domino's USA, everyone in the Domino's family is "sickened" by the actions of these two employees. In the video Doyle goes on to apologize for the incident, assures customers that the Conover, N.C. restaurant where the videos were filmed is being sanitized and describes the steps his company is taking to ensure such an incident doesn't happen again.
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Flutter - The New Twitter
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Don't have time to Twitter? Do you dread composing lengthy 140 characters tweets? Who doesn't. Move over Twitter, here comes Flutter to the rescue.Flutter messages, or flaps (like a hummingbird's wing) are limited to only 26 characters. One full English alphabet is the maximum flap. Seriously, if you can't express your thoughts in a full English alphabet then you might want to take some lessons in brevity from @TheMime.
Flutter can also import messages from other social networking sites, like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and automatically shorten them to 26 character flaps. For example, lets say your friend Tweets this "working on some new designs for the album cover and watching project runway in my underwear lol!" Flutter would automatically shorten this message to say "wrking 4 project underwear."
By the way, we're just kidding. The Flutter video is a mockumentary about a fictional company called Flutter that wants to take microblogging to the next level. Enjoy.
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Thursday, April 02, 2009
HugeURL - Because Bigger is Better
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Get ready to super-size your URLs. That's right. TinyURL.com is for sissies. Move over brevity, email friendly links and Twitter's puny 140 character limit... there's a fat lady singing and her name is HugeURL. HugeURL.com will take your tiny little links and make them ginormous.
For example, why would you want to link to http://methodshop.com when you could link to a paragraph length collection of random text?
http://www.hugeurl.com/?NzU5ODFlNjIxODEyMTFlMjU0NGZlOTJjYTIx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Is HugeURL practical? Not at all. Why HugeURL.com? Because bigger is better!!! Right?
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For example, why would you want to link to http://methodshop.com when you could link to a paragraph length collection of random text?
http://www.hugeurl.com/?NzU5ODFlNjIxODEyMTFlMjU0NGZlOTJjYTIx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Is HugeURL practical? Not at all. Why HugeURL.com? Because bigger is better!!! Right?
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009
April Fools Day Jokes Across the Internet (2009)
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Did Warner Bros. Acquire The Pirate Bay? Is Qualcomm expanding their wireless coverage with transmitters connected to Wolfpigeons? Careful what you read online today and check your calendar. That's right, it's April Fools Day.
Here are some of the best April Fools Day jokes you'll see online today. Enjoy!
Reddit Reborn as Redigg - Are the crowd-sourcing wars over? If you go to http://reddit.com today you might think you accidentally typed in Digg.com. For their April Fools Day joke, Reddit mockingly adopted their competitor's design and were reborn as Reddigg!
Google Autopilot - Too busy to read and respond to your own emails? No problem. Google has a new artificial intelligence technology called Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) that will read and respond to all your email for you.
Qualcomm's Wireless Convergence - Qualcomm has a plan to help increase wireless coverage: put tiny base stations in pigeons and make their wireless network accessible anywhere in the world. But how does Qualcomm protect their pigeon transmitters from feral cats? By splicing the pigeons with wolves and giving them the skills and tenacity they need to survive in the wild. But how do you control a winged wolf population in the wild? Can you say Sharkfalcon? What about Crocodegle? It gets a little complicated. You might want to watch this YouTube clip from Qualcomm that helps explain how they plan to control all these new winged predators/transmitters in the wild.
Guardian Switches to Twitter - Sure the newspaper industry is a dieing dinosaur but... switching to Twitter? For their April Fools Day joke, the Guardian informed readers that after 188 years of publishing, the newspaper will now only be available via Twitter. According to "experts" cited in the article, any news story can be told in 140 characters (the maximum number of characters Twitter allows per update).
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Here are some of the best April Fools Day jokes you'll see online today. Enjoy!
Reddit Reborn as Redigg - Are the crowd-sourcing wars over? If you go to http://reddit.com today you might think you accidentally typed in Digg.com. For their April Fools Day joke, Reddit mockingly adopted their competitor's design and were reborn as Reddigg!
Google Autopilot - Too busy to read and respond to your own emails? No problem. Google has a new artificial intelligence technology called Cognitive Autoheuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity (CADIE) that will read and respond to all your email for you.
Qualcomm's Wireless Convergence - Qualcomm has a plan to help increase wireless coverage: put tiny base stations in pigeons and make their wireless network accessible anywhere in the world. But how does Qualcomm protect their pigeon transmitters from feral cats? By splicing the pigeons with wolves and giving them the skills and tenacity they need to survive in the wild. But how do you control a winged wolf population in the wild? Can you say Sharkfalcon? What about Crocodegle? It gets a little complicated. You might want to watch this YouTube clip from Qualcomm that helps explain how they plan to control all these new winged predators/transmitters in the wild.
Guardian Switches to Twitter - Sure the newspaper industry is a dieing dinosaur but... switching to Twitter? For their April Fools Day joke, the Guardian informed readers that after 188 years of publishing, the newspaper will now only be available via Twitter. According to "experts" cited in the article, any news story can be told in 140 characters (the maximum number of characters Twitter allows per update).
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