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Do you remember your first? It could have involved a wine cooler and the back of your mom’s station wagon. Oh, wait, wrong first. We’re talking about your first Twitter follower, that first person to say “hey, your 140 characters look interesting.” FirstFollower.com is ...a new, simple website reveals the very first person to follow you on Twitter. Keep up to date on the latest Twitter tidbits. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Facebook must have landed on Santa Claus’ nice list this year because the social networking giant scored a bigger present than Google. Hitwise reports that Facebook was the most visited website in the United States on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year, edgi ...ng out perennial traffic toppers Google and Yahoo!...

The New York Times published a great piece about media companies trying to shut off free access to content. It quotes Alan D. Mutter, a media consultant, “Content providers see that the idea that everything has to be free, supported by ads, isn’t working well, and they’ ...re trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube, but only partially.” The analogies of putting horses back in stables and toothpaste back in tubes...

Did you hear that Yahoo! picked up the baggage tab for travelers at the San Jose and San Francisco airports on December 23rd? Advertising Age calls it a “brilliant” marketing move. It makes no sense to me. Do you think this is clever marketing? Total news coverage of Yahoo!. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

While it's hard to believe Lady Gaga's outrageous clothes could obscure anything, they can distract from the fact that the performer is actually hugely successful. If sales are any indication, she's sold more than 20 million digital copies of her songs. So, what can we ...learn from her? Blogger Victor Niederhoffer has extracted 10 thought-provoking lessons we can learn from Lady Gaga....

Even if you’re not that geeky (though if you’re reading this blog, sorry, dude: chances are low), Read Write Web’s list of eight to-do’s before 2010 offers great reminders. Three of them are: - Edit your privacy settings and friendships. - Change your passwords. - Upda ...te copyright notices on your website. Read the full article for all eight reminders and the explanations behind them. More tips on how to hack your life. Photo credit: Fotolia Permalink | Leave...

It was a sobering year for magazines. The Huffington Post reports that over 400 titles folded over the past 12 months. In remembrance, HuffPo looks back at some of the 25 most beloved and gives bereved readers the chance to vote for the ones they miss most. Among the fa ...llen are National Geographic Adventure, Playgirl, and Conde Nast shockers Cookie, Gourmet, and Portfolio. See HuffPo’s 25 titles and vote....

According to research, listening to music tailored to the patient reduces the loudness of tinnitus. Tinnitus is a constant ringing in one or both ears. I have it in my right ear; it sounds like the whine of a jet engine 24 x 7 x 365, so I hope this study is true. Actual ...ly, I have Ménière’s disease which is the trifecta of tinnitus, hearing loss, and vertigo....

Here’s one good reason to kiss the decade goodbye: stupid, stupid gadgets. Gizmodo has collected the 50 worst devices of the past 10 years—a little list of “gadget hell,” as they call it. Above, for instance, is one featured gizmo called the Feel Light Bright Sun Visor, ... which Gizmodo describes as “perfect for people who wanted to spend $200 to a) own a sun visor with built-in photosynthetic light and/or b)...

If you’re considering permanently inking the Fail Whale onto your leg or etching Steve Wozniak’s mug into your bicep, take a moment to dial down your nerdiness and look at people who already made the mistake of geek ink. The Huffington Post has collected the geekiest ta ...ttoos of all-time that make barb wire and tribal tramp stamps look positively awesome. Thinking ink?...

Cutting to the chase, basically gurus and experts don’t know shiitake about the future. L. Gordon Crovitz compiled some great examples for the Wall Street Journal. Here’s on example: “Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six mont ...hs. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night,” (Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946). Arthur C....

New Yorkers just like to have fun—without guns like in Washington DC. Check out these great photos of “Blizzard 2009,” a snowball fight at Times Square. More on New York and photography. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

If you just received an iPhone for the holidays, congratulations! You’re going to love it. But if you want to experience the full potential of your new phone’s awesomeness—you’ll have to jailbreak it. For those of you who don’t know, jailbreaking is simply modifying the ... phone's firmware, bypassing Apple's distribution mechanism, so that your phone so that it can run applications you’ll never see in the iTunes app store....

Unlike raster-based images, vector images are infinitely scalable. From the photo-realistic to the abstract, vector art is as varied as any other medium of expression. Check out these thirty five incredible vector illustrations and get inspired to start creating your ow ...n! All the latest and greatest in web design. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Captured in a series of 1655 images taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera, a man by the name of Holger Schulze captured a 26-Gigapixel photo of the cityscape in Dresden, Germany. The camera used a 400mm lens and was mounted on a motorized head to take the shots over ...nearly three hours. The computer that processed the RAW image files had 16 processors and 48GB of memory....

In what sounds like a news story straight out of the 1960s, a shopping center in China has opened a female-only car park that features wider parking spaces and is painted pink and light purple to “appeal to female tastes.” An official associated with the lady-targeted p ...arking lot claims the design is intended to accommodate women’s “strong sense of color and different sense of distance.” Keep up to date on all the...

Before you recycle those cereal boxes and juice cartons, check out Dutch artist, Anke Weiss’s, amazing series of beautiful lights created from recycled food and drink packaging. Packaging lights show the transformation of a mass-product into a unique item. The packaging ... survives the point where it usually turns into garbage and becomes a product itself. More inspiring designs. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Last April, a stick thrown by a schoolmate lacerated the cornea and lens of 13-year-old Kingston Fereti leaving him blind in his left-eye. Fereti was frustrated with the thought of never being able to play sports again, but armed with the power of prayer, his mother, Sh ...ann was determined to find a solution and took her son to see Dr....

If you’re new to the online marketing field, you probably feel overwhelmed with the amount of acronyms being thrown in your direction. From PPC to CPA to ROI to SEO—it gets confusing. But, everyone has to start somewhere. So here’s a quick and valuable lesson on a curre ...nt favourite: SMO (social media optimization). The insightful article outlines four ways to maximize your brand with four optimization tips....

Sleep has not been a friend of mine for many years. A good night's rest for me is usually due to complete exhaustion from lack of sleep several nights before. After reading these 6 surefire ways to better sleep, I'm hopeful. Watch what – and when you eat Eating heavy m ...eals too close to bedtime can interrupt sleep....

Twitter’s embarrassing security breach earlier this year taught the Twittosphere a valuable lesson: don’t choose easy-to-crack passwords. Now the site is helping users prevent hacker attacks by creating a list of 370 passwords that it bans members from using when they s ...ign up for an account. The prohibited passwords list includes everything from the obvious (password, twitter, 12345678) to the more peculiar (butthead, nipple, shaved), but curiously doesn’t include “happiness,” the...

These 5 steps were originally targeted for making your diet successful in 2010, however after reading through they can be applied to any goal. Get Real It’s all too easy to dream up grand plans and goals which simply don’t fit in with your life. If you work long hours, ... you’re unlikely to havethe energy to cook elaborate, super-healthy meals from scratch each night....

If history is correct, in 1956 John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator took a 2-week boating trip on the Mediterranean with his brother Ted Kennedy and Senator George Smathers. And, if this photo is authentic, joining the very married men were some very naked women. Politi ...cal pundits, would he have won his bid for President if this photo had surfaced in 1960? More on Politics. Permalink | Leave a comment  »...

I don't travel nearly as much as Guy Kawasaki, but enough so that those hours of commuting from HNL are precious productivity time for me. And, often times offline tasks are very minimal -- I need to be plugged in. Virgin America is already ahead of the game, but they d ...on't have routes to HNL, and I don't think Hawaiian Airlines will be swift to offer this service....

With a new year fast approaching, everyone is contemplating their resolutions. The most common will be to lead a healthier lifestyle. If the produce aisle is foreign territory for you, not to worry there's a flowchart for that! This was the fastest food flowchart for me ..., I missed meat therefore I was quickly led to mushrooms or eggplant....

Got something small to give away, like some jewelry or your dignity? Create a tiny origami box out of a Netflix envelope with these instructions from NetflixOrigami.com! If boxes aren’t your cup of tea (and you have a bunch of Netflix envelopes laying around), there are ... plenty more designs where that came from. Read on for more things to make with your hands. Permalink | Leave a comment  »...