Before the beginning of this semester the term ‘blogging’ never crossed my mind.  I reserved blogging for ‘internet geeks’.  My underestimation and pre-conceived notions of blogging has been shattered this semester.  Who could have know the power of blogs?-well not me!  In particular I was surprised by the positive impact it can have on a [...]

Oh how nice it would be to be 21 and be able to retire or imagine being 26 years old and worth $75 million…that is exactly the case for young entrepreneur- Angelo Sotira who is the founder of deviantART.com.  DeviantART is an American international online community for artists. It was first launched on August 7, [...]

Squidoo grew 91% in 2008, has almost 900,000 hand built lenses and is one of the 300 most popular sites in the U.S so why is it so successful? 1. They treat everyone as an expert- If people think they have something valuable to share Squidoo gives them an opportunity to share it.  They give validity [...]

The breakthrough of the Internet in the last 20years has had a huge impact on society and has brought with it huge possibilities including opportunities for organizations such as Kiva.org. This kind of non-profit organization owes its existence to the power of the internet.  Kiva.org uses the power of the internet to facilitate one-to-one connections that [...]

Everyone knows that in our day and age, technology is relied on much more than it is reliable. So what happens when you forgot to install that anti-virus software and your computer crashes? You sit on your computer (by accident)?  Or you knock some coffee over your keyboard in late night frustration while trying to [...]

First Impressions:  LinkedIn is definitely a more professional and older member of the social networking family tree, a well succeeding business man, professional and clean-cut.  Immediately I see the benefits of being involved in this social networking site. Second Impression:  How legitimate is it for me to add a Nutrition professor from my college back home [...]

As a newcomer to Twitter I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect, what I did find though was ANOTHER social networking tool (surprise!) with a twist.  Twitter is quirky, I mean it has its own quirky vocabulary of Twitter words such as “tweets”, “Tweedeck” and “twhirls”, you could almost write a dictionary.  Twitter may on [...]

 Stumbleupon.com is basically the internet version of mass customization, it gives millions of users what they want but personalizes it to their own needs and wants.   I had never been on this site before but immediately found it addictive, it is so easy to spend hours surfing the net using stumbleupon because it cuts out [...]

Online shopping has almost become more popular than stepping outdoors to face the stores, but is it easy to miss all the bargains over the internet?  Aren’t all the deals hidden in the backs of corners in the stores themselves? Steep and Cheap are the ultimate online store for bargain buys!  They sell premium outdoor gear [...]

Ok, so most of us who are face book users are probably familiar with the frustration of logging on to find an abundance of requests for new applications, the majority of which are completely useless such as “Super poke” and “I am hungry”… But what would you do if you found a request for a application [...]