MSOffice. Smart Computing Article - Personal Finance. OMG! Did Google Earth find Atlantis? | The Social. Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. Either that, or Google is totally trying to hide something. Since I always appreciate a nice juicy conspiracy theory, I'm going to go with the latter. From what it sounds like, a British aeronautical engineer was playing around with the new Google Earth 5.0, which includes undersea data , and noticed something funny off the coast of Africa, about 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, that resembled a pattern of a street grid. According to the United Kingdom's Press Association, the pattern of streets equated to an area the size of Wales. In case you've had more important things to read about for the past few thousand years, Atlantis was a legendary island city first mentioned by Plato, allegedly a hard-core naval power located somewhere near North Africa that disappeared when it sank into the ocean.
I smell a cover-up! Digital Music: Create, Listen to, and Share Playlists at MixTape. Web-based music application MixTape.me lets you create, listen to, learn about, and share playlists quickly and easily. It's awesome. Full Disclosure: I'm completely biased, of course. MixTape.me has been a pet project of mine over the past year or so—but something that's been brewing for the past several years. The purpose of the site is simple: It's meant to look, feel, and act just like desktop music player—but it lives in your browser. The site integrates with several other music services to integrate artist bios (Last.fm), lyrics (LyricWiki), and YouTube videos with the music you're listening to, allowing you to learn about the music as you enjoy it. Click to view There's a lot more to it than that, but I'll leave you with that, and with a note: MixTape.me is a pet project that is almost guaranteed to have some bugs.
If you would be so kind, please send any problems or bugs to support at mixtape.me. 5 Ways to Earn Money by Blogging. Many people dream of getting paid to blog. This is fueled by stories of bloggers earning big bucks. You can earn money by blogging — if you're dedicated. According to Technorati, the average American blogger earns $6,000 yearly. The top 1% earn $200,000 or more. Blogging is hard work and requires long hours. So, pick a subject about which you're passionate. Avoid topics like photography, politics, gadgets and celebrity gossip. To earn money from a blog, it must be well-written. Here are some of the best ways to earn money from your blog.
Seek Out Advertisers and Affiliate Programs Advertising The most obvious way to make money blogging is with advertising. Google's AdSense is perhaps the most popular advertising program. AdBrite, AdGenta and BidVertiser also help you display ads on your blog. It's easy to get ads on your site, but difficult to earn from them. Affiliate Programs Affiliate programs are similar to advertising. You may get paid when a visitor clicks an affiliate link. Employment. Seven Must-Have Twitter Tools.
At SXSW, attendees confront Twitter saturation | Webware. AUSTIN, Texas--By now, the story of how Twitter exploded onto the scene at the 2007 South by Southwest festival is legend in technology circles. But here at SXSW 2009 , the notion of the perfect match among community, service, and event seems flipped on its head. Many people are discovering that a monumental oversaturation of tweets is reversing the value that Twitter offered at SXSW 2007 and SXSW 2008 for finding friends and great parties. At SXSW, the standard is for everyone to include the tag "#sxsw" in their tweets. For example, on Friday, I was looking for sources for a different story and tweeted, "If you are launching an iPhone app at #sxsw, or know someone who is, please let me know.
Thanks! " That's a great convention because it allows anyone wanting to know what's going on to search Twitter for posts using any search term important to them. This has forced people accustomed to relying on simple Twitter searches to get creative to find the nuggets they need. To Tweet or not to Tweet, that's not an option. Why I hate Facebook - Feb. 20, 2009. Ali Velshi & the CNN Money Team take on the dismal February jobs report. How will the job market recover?
Friday at 11 p.m. ET NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- I need to take a break from all the gloom in the markets and economy for an Andy Rooney-esque rant. I don't know about you. For the record, I am not on Facebook, and the recent fuss about privacy doesn't affect me -- I'm not a disgruntled user with an axe to grind. What I don't get is how Facebook has become such a phenomenon. Don't get me wrong. Also, I am by no means a Luddite. But I honestly don't have the time to commit to Facebook. I also don't feel the need to constantly update an entire network of friends about the daily minutiae of my life.
I may be in the minority. Popularity's nice, but profits are cooler In the Fortune story, there is a chart showing how quickly Facebook got to 150 million users compared to other technologies such as the iPod, cellphone and television. But how much money would it really make? Q&A: Twitter's Biz Stone talks search, favorite Tweets. “You Have Zero Privacy Anyway. Get Over It”–That Goes Double on. When Sun Microsystems (JAVA) Gadfly-in-Chief Scott McNealy made his infamous statement about online privacy in 1999, there was a horrified hubbub at the time that he had the audacity to say such a thing. You know, that he actually uttered such a terrible thing as the truth. What a shock then that everyone is now in yet another tizzy about Facebook changes to its Terms of Service, which pretty much state the obvious again by noting that Facebook archives info you posted, even if you quit the service.
As in, you probably can’t delete it. No, you can’t–because you shared it, whether it be a photo, an email, a Wall post, whatever, already. Because the fact of the matter is–since the moment the first caveman sent the first email to another Neanderthal–there has never been true online privacy for anyone who has chosen to participate in this highly interactive medium. Here’s the key definition of interactive: “mutually or reciprocally active.”
What's Twitter's fiscal fate? Life is tweet: How the Twitter family infiltrated our cultural w. Amid the flurry of marriage proposals likely to have taken place yesterday, one can be fairly certain that a novel handful happened on Twitter, the microblogging site that is fast colonising the world. Such proposals wouldn't be the first. That honour goes to Greg Rewis, a software manager from Phoenix, who popped the question to his fiancee (aka "stefsull") on Twitter last March: "@stefsull - OK for the rest of the twitter-universe [and this is a first, folks] - WILL YOU MARRY ME? " To which she giddily replied: "OMG - Ummmmm ... I guess in front of the whole twitter-verse I'll say - I'd be happy to spend the rest of my geek life with you.
" It was early proof that Twitter, like true love, knows no bounds. For those unacquainted (or "twirgins"), Twitter is a social networking service that combines elements of blogging and texting by allowing its users to send updates to their friends (or "followers") via the web or mobile phone in messages (or "tweets") of up to 140 characters each. Media. The Death Of “Web 2.0″ I’m not going to discuss the economic meltdown and its devastating effect on technology companies and internet startups in this post, but rather something that crossed my mind earlier this morning: “Web 2.0″ seems to become more and more a void (and an avoided) term. Of course, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it is definitely apparent. So why do I say it’s fading? For one, because the number of startups that contact us and include the term Web 2.0 in the subject line or message is visibly dropping (and that’s a good thing), and I hardly ever see it mentioned anymore on other technology blogs and news sites either.
That’s not really tangible, so I took a look at the number of mentions of the phrase across the web, and they seem to be decreasing significantly, reflecting my feeling on this. And just in case you’re curious: “Web 3.0″ doesn’t seem to picking up much. I’ve never had anything against the phrase “Web 2.0″, but I wouldn’t miss it a bit if it were never used again. Are the Creators of Twitter Living in the Last Dreamworld on Ear. Biz Stone and Evan Williams at Twitter. (Photo: Hugh Kretschmer) I n case you don’t remember the precise details of what the Silicon Alley dot-com boom-and-bust in the late nineties and early aughts was like, allow me to remind you, because I was there.
Everyone showed up to work, hung-over, around 11:30 a.m., just in time for our free lunch. There were about six different dogs in the office. Everyone left around 6 p.m. to go drink on the company bar tab or show up at ubiquitous “launch parties,” extravagant affairs (often on a boat that circled Manhattan) that celebrated the historic occurrence of a website going live. Mostly, I remember the meetings. The company I worked for died, as did hundreds of others. The office itself feels like 2000 … but more adult.
“There’s not a lot of foosball going on here,” CEO Evan Williams, 36, says. Which is all fine and good, but Twitter is the hot web company right now. Why Photographers Should Care About Twitter - TWIPPHOTO.COM. Dempsey.