Social networking is all the rage these days and one of the latest and greatest sites on the national scene is myYearbook.com, which is sort of a combination of the viral widgets of Facebook and style and features of Myspace. The network already has over five million members and is growing rapidly.
On their “Our Story” page, they claim the site was created by a couple high school kids, which I find hard to believe, considering the venture capital funding and national advertising contracts the site had already attained at its inception.No, this was a website created by corporate America with the sole purpose of APPEARING to be a hip site created by and for kids. Their claims are about as believable as boy bands writing their own songs.
Despite this, they are situated nicely to become the new cool hangout now that even parents and grandparents are hanging out on Myspace by the tens of thousands. After all, once everyone knows about a site like Myspace, it’s no longer cool, so the in-crowd has to find somewhere else to hang out. Whether or not myYearbook is that new destination has yet to be determined.
Stuff On My Cat is one of those silly, time wasting sites that I visit maybe once a year when I remember it exists. It’s not quite as funny as its sister site, I Can Has Cheezeburger, but it’s worth the occasional visit. The photos on the site feature, as you may have guessed, cats with stuff on them. If you’re wondering why this is funny, well, you’re either the type of person who gets it or you’re not.
We all use search engines every day to make our lives a little easier, but Good Search allows us to improve the lives of others just by searching the Internet.Every time you do a search on Good Search, they donate a penny to the charity of your choice.This can be any legit charity in existence, so if your local charity of choice hasn’t signed up at Good Search yet, be sure to tell them about the site.
Good Search is powered by Yahoo, so it’s no different than searching at Yahoo.com, other than the fact that you’re helping out a charity in the process.It doesn’t take many searches to make a difference either.If you get 100 people to do 2 searches a day, you’d make an estimated $730 a year for your charity.With a thousand people doing 2 searches a day, you’d make $7,300 and with 10,000 people you’d make $73,000.As you can see, Good Search can benefit both large and small organizations.
Good Search also offers a site called Good Shop, which has links to several major Internet retailers.If you make a purchase at these retailers, they’ll donate a portion of your purchase price to your charity of choice.
So bookmark Good Search and start donating to your charity by doing searches today, and don’t forget to tell your local charities about the site as well.If you have any questions about the site, you can check out their FAQ by clicking here.
There are thousands of sites on the web that offer movie trailers, but sometimes you need to download a trailer for some reason. Either you want to post it to another website or you want a copy to send to a friend. Finding download links for trailers is never an easy task (unless you can download .flv files, which I’ll talk about in another post), but I stumbled across a site yesterday called Movie List that makes it fairly simple.
Movie List has direct download links to trailers of upcoming films, current releases, and popular movies of the last couple years. If there’s a trailer you’re searching for, chances are you’ll be able to find it at Movie List. This site has made my own life easier, so I thought I’d pass it along.
I’ve always been a bargain hunter, as my parents used to drag me to garage sales and flea markets on a regular basis when I was younger, instilling in me a sense of frugality.I’m constantly snooping around clearance bins, checking out dollar stores, clipping coupons, and doing whatever else I can to save a buck or two.Thus, it should be no surprise to anyone that I don’t like to pay full price for video games (or anything else for that matter).
The Etree community was formed in the summer of 1998 for the online trading of live concert CD-R’s.These CDs are traded in a high-quality, lossless digital format which can be burned to CD or listened to on certain media players.While the site was originally formed by Phish fans, it has grown to include concert recordings from hundreds of popular bands such as The Grateful Dead, 311, John Mayer, Ben Folds, Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band, Primus, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Smashing Pumpkins (just to name a few).
Similar to newspapers, magazines don’t really make their profit from subscription sales.They live or die on their advertising revenue, and to fluff those numbers and increase members of certain key demographics, they often give out free subscriptions to people who work in businesses that their advertisers are trying to reach.For about a decade now, I’ve been receiving dozens of free magazine subscriptions from websites such as Mercury Magazines or Free Biz Mags.
Some of these free magazines are trade publications that would only be of interest to webmasters or IT professionals, but they also offer me a surprising assortment of consumer magazines.Over the years I’ve received free subscriptions to magazines such as Wired, Boating, Maxim, FHM, Stuff, Car & Driver, Horses Illustrated, US News & World Report, and many more.While I hate to endorse reading magazines offline and killing more trees, sometimes it’s just nice to have a physical magazine that you can stuff in your bag and pull out whenever you have a free minute or need to kill some time.They make good bathroom reading as well, and, more importantly, they’re free.I have a hard time saying no to anything that’s free.
If you have a personal website, blog, or even a Myspace page, you’ll want to check out Widget Box.Widgets are cool little gadgets you can add to your website by cutting and pasting a little code from sites like Widget Box.They let you do things like embed video games, movies, and time wasting applications onto your site.As an example, I’ve embedded one of my favorite games, Puzzle Bobble, into this blog post.There are thousands of widgets at Widget Box and just as many creative uses for them.
If you’re a person who watches much television, you’ve definitely noticed that there’s a writers’ strike going on, which has halted production on just about every show on television.What you might not know, is that one of the main reasons for the strike is that writers are demanding a share of the online revenue that studios are expected to generate in the near future or are already generating.At the core of the issue is a new service called Hulu, which may just change the way videos are shared on the web.
Social networking is all the rage these days and one of the latest and greatest sites on the national scene is myYearbook.com, which is sort of a combination of the viral widgets of Facebook and style and features of Myspace. The network already has over five million members and is growing rapidly.
