I have to be honest…I have never understood the purpose of blogging before this class. I never thought that I would have been able to come up with things to say that would be deemed interesting to my classmates. While I am sure that none of my blog posts were actually that interesting, I have learned [...]

Woot.com is a fun website that urges it’s viewers to visit everyday through the idea of having one deal per day. You never know what you are going to find on Woot, they provide a variety of deals. Today they have a battery charger, last week they had a huge flat screen TV, the possibilities are endless. [...]

Academic institutions everywhere appear to all agree on one thing…Wikipedia cannot be trusted. I am sure that many can agree that they have heard the phrase “unreliable source” used in relation to Wikipedia numerous times throughout their academic career. Yet despite this warning to students, many still use Wikipedia to gather information for their projects. [...]

Kiva means Unity in Swahili, and the idea of unity is central to Kiva. Matt and Jessica Flannery started Kiva, because they felt like they had found a “call to action,” while in Africa. For many entrepreneurs in Africa the major problem with starting a business was that there was not enough access to capital. So [...]

MapQuest was a huge hit when it started on the Internet in 1996. No longer did people have to use paper maps to figure out directions to their destinations, now all they had to do was  just type in the addresses and ta-da… instant directions. Genius.  MapQuest remained the leader in this type of industry until recently when Google introduced Google [...]

Facebook….MySpace….Twitter…..LinkedIn, and that is just naming a few of the many social networking sites that have become popular in the past few years. What makes one more valuable than other? Should I belong to multiple networking websites? Which one best fits my needs? Someone who is new to the idea of social networking via the Internet, [...]

Personally, I have never been someone who has ever really understood the point of blogging. I never feel like I have enough to say, or better yet anythingthat someone else would find interesting! So since blogging, and facebook statuses have never been something I have frequently used, I was very skeptical about twitter. After the first [...]

Picnik is a great website for editing pictures, the main service is completely free and allows you to make numerous customizations to your pictures. It also offers a service that is 25.00 a  year for unlimited customization options. I have only been using the free options and I think that this is an awesome website. [...]

I have never used Stumbleupon before, I’ve heard alot about it, yet never used it…I have to say I was very skeptical, I have never really been into sites like this, I never wanted to have to wade through tons of “junk” that I figureed would be provided. After using this site it appears that I [...]

Could facebook be considered a free dating service? I actually know someone who was facebooking a friend and wandered on to some guys facebook. They had similar interests and so she contacted him, they conversed for a while via facebook, then they met and started dating. I just attended their wedding in December… Now this might be [...]