You Learn Something New Every Day

A blog on the technological and spiritual future of the human race.

Trying out Pownce

pownce.pngI just got invited to Pownce, the new instant social network that lets you keep in touch and share stuff instantly. Basically it’s like everything you can do with email and Facebook, but at the speed of instant messaging. Given that this is Kevin Rose’s project (one of the founders of Digg), a lot of people are itching to try it out. Read on…

Posted by Michaell at 04:14pm | Networking | one comment

The joys of free, open-source software

photoshop570.jpgSoftware can be expensive. Just go check out what you have to pay to buy certain things.

A copy of Microsoft Office 2007 costs over $300 as of this writing. Sure, you can use another lesser program like WordPad to write documents. But everybody has Microsoft Office, and WordPad won’t give you spreadsheets and database functions—or PowerPoint presentations. What’s a broke computer user to do? Read on…

Putting the “Net” back into the Internet

Can people form relationships without ever even meeting, talking on the phone, or even chatting with each other?

In today’s world? Yeah! Read on…

What’s the line between legitimate opinion and bigoted trash-talk?

Just now I read a post on the Social Networking Blog about racial segregation online. The post talks about two social networking sites aimed at specific groups, New Saxon and NiggaSpace, and claims that these sites are representative of racial hatred. Read on…

The value of being LinkedIn

These days, online connections are getting more important every year. Read on…

Posted by Michaell at 09:16am | Networking | one comment