Alright, the biggest news this week has got to be none other than the release of the bigger Amazon Kindle DX. By bigger we mean a 9-inch display for your e-book reading pleasure. Many has predicted this to happen as early as Monday. And expectedly there was pandemonium in the tech blogosphere as soon as Amazon’s official release statement came out. But while everyone is going crazy (or not) about the new Kindle DX, somewhere at the sideline, Sony almost unnoticingly announced that it was making some Danielle Steele romance titles on their own e-book reader. [Read more…] about Amazon Releases the Kindle DX, 3 Important New Features and Useful Links
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Yahoo to Shut Down Geocities, Long Live Geocities!
For those who grew up in the Internet during the 1990’s, Geocities would certainly ring a bell. Back then, Geocities was the closest thing you can get to have an online presence and a social community. I’m feeling a bit nostalgic right now as I remember the several Geocities account I created which died a natural death. Speaking of death, that is where Geocities is heading as Yahoo is quietly announcing that it will be shutting down the service soon. Quite interestingly, just as Geocities has become a dormant service, Yahoo is also quietly disclosing its plan to discontinue Geocities. In fact if you’re not going to visit the Geocities landing page at geocities.yahoo.com, you wouldn’t know that it is going to the dead pool this year. [Read more…] about Yahoo to Shut Down Geocities, Long Live Geocities!
Signs of the Times: Book Catalog in Twitter and a Social Media Degree?
I was supposed to write only about the one-year course specializing on social media but then I also came across this article re a book catalog using Twitter. So decided to write an article about them together as it clearly shows how social media is becoming a way of life today. [Read more…] about Signs of the Times: Book Catalog in Twitter and a Social Media Degree?
iGoogle’s Video Game Inspired Themes are Awesome
Do you use iGoogle as your browser’s start page? Or if not, are you using it as an RSS feed reader? Well regardless of whatever purposes you use iGoogle for as long as you use it regularly, you’d be glad to know that you can now change those boring themes/skins into something cool. As in video game-inspired kind of cool themes. [Read more…] about iGoogle’s Video Game Inspired Themes are Awesome
White House to Use Google Products for Online Town Hall Meeting
Well, Google has something to be proud of again as the White House is about to hold its first online town hall meeting using YouTube, Google App Engine and Google Moderator. Although this not the first time the Obama administration will be making use of online social tools for its activities, this online town hall meeting would certainly give YouTube a huge amount of site traffic. In addition, this would also give a not so famous Google product, the Google Moderator a much need attention. [Read more…] about White House to Use Google Products for Online Town Hall Meeting
News Aggregator Alltop Launches a Personalized MyAlltop Page
Anybody here using Alltop? Frankly, I used this before during its intiial launch but stopped using it since it practically mimics what Techmeme is doing. Although Alltop has a broader coverage topic-wise, I still find Techmeme enough for my daily dose of Technews. But since, Alltop has just announced a new personalization feature, I decided to re-visit the site again to check out MyAlltop. [Read more…] about News Aggregator Alltop Launches a Personalized MyAlltop Page