Happy Holidays

Just wanted to say Happy Holidays to everyone – I greatly appreciate your support and contributions to the site this past year. I will be taking the next few days off from posting to celebrate the Christmas Holiday and to work on a new submission/contribution incentive program. See you real soon ...

QuickByte: Scientists now use Twitter to Track Earthquakes?

The U.S. Geological Survey have come up with a new way to track earthquakes via tweets. Normally Scientists have the tedious task of sorting through large quantities of data through recording stations, prior to finding out where exactly an earthquake has struck. Now Scientists can use filtering software...

Pandora,Twitter, Facebook What’s the Connection?

It’s now official users of the popular Pandora Free Internet Music site can now easily post their songs and radio stations to Twitter and Facebook. Facebook users will be able to listen to a quick thirty second preview of the post while tweeps will be able to send out shortened urls. These links...

What is the Definition of Twitter Patted?

I hear a lot about this term nowadays largely due to the increase in popularity of the social media phenomenon Twitter. We have even received a couple emails asking if we knew what Twitter Patted actually means. Basically twitter patted or twitterpated – as it is correctly spelled – is a term...

Quick Byte: Swayze Passes Away after 20 Month Cancer Battle

Actor Patrick Swayze 57, died Monday after his enduring 20 Month battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” [...] by his publicist, Annett Wolf. False rumors were spread...

Quick Byte: Google Docs, 42 Translations

Google posted today that it added a little flair to the popular Google Docs application – by allowing you to translate your text into 42 different languages. The translation process is overwhelmingly easy, after you are finished typing up a document, highlight the area you need translated. Next go...

Sunday Roundup: Top Stories this Past Week, Twitter, Facebook, Google…

Twitter Study – August 2009 – Pearanalytics A study was conducted by Pearanalytics with the initial hypothesis that Twitter was primarily used for Self Promotion. Their later findings concluded that 40% of Twitter Tweets are “Pointless Babble”, making it the most widely prolific...

Sunday Roundup: Top Web Stories This Week, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Twitter Service Spotty as Attacks Continue Thursday sparked a world wide web storm as attackers focused their efforts on several prominent websites. Twitter apparently suffered the most, during the attack. .. ...

Quick Byte: AdSense Plans Routine Maintenance

The engineers at Google plan on doing routine maintenance on Saturday, August 8. So if you have an AdSense account- don’t be alarmed if you can not access your user interface. Google ensures us that all people running AdSense ads will still get credit for ad clicks and impressions will be...

Twitter fights off a #Dos Attack

Some of you may have attempted to login to your Twitter account earlier this morning, but instead of navigating to the page you requested you were faced with a network error message. According to a recent blog post, the Twitter Guru’s worked on getting the 30 million plus user site, back online from an...