My website got featured on killerstartups.com

June 23, 2008

Tweet So today as I was looking through my stats I noticed a huge jump in visitors to my image hosting/sharing website, picpanda.com. So when I found out it had gotten featured on killerstartups.com I was ecstatic! I know most of you probably don’t care but I do and it made my day.

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6 reasons why short URL’s are useful

June 22, 2008

Tweet I started a short URL website not long ago and I wanted to discuss the advantages of using these free internet tools. First off the purpose of this tool is to turn a long URL into a short one, for example: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/Toronto+ON/#a/maps/l::: Toronto:ON::CA:43.64854:-79.385368:city:Toronto/m:hy b:14:43.668488:-79.392826:0::/io:0:::::f:EN:M:/e becomes http://skeefurl.com/QRJZQ/ Advantages: Link will not break up in emails […]

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51 year old man arrested for internet luring

June 19, 2008

Tweet It seems every day there’s more and more news about internet predators, online pedophiles and people just exploiting the internet for illegal purposes. I just talked the other day about a woman who was charged for making a 13 year old girl commit suicide over the internet. What the hell is wrong with people. […]

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Firefox 3 record attempt crashes servers

June 18, 2008

Tweet Well they got what they wanted, millions of people to come and download Firefox 3. What they didn’t anticipate was their servers to crash. Come on…if I was campaigning for a while and knew millions of people would be coming to my server to download in such a short time frame I would have […]

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Time to upgrade to mobile internet?

June 18, 2008

Tweet Mobile internet usage is increasing at a rapid rate according to recent studies. “The mobile internet is the new, new thing in the industry. And it is here for real and happening now,” said Arun Sarin, Vodafone’s outgoing chief executive in a keynote speech at the recent CTIA conference in Las Vegas. They say […]

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Today is Firefox 3 download day!

June 17, 2008

Tweet Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.

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Some people make me sick

June 17, 2008

Tweet I just read this article about a 49 year old woman who made a fake Myspace account pretending to be a teenage boy. Now if that isn’t disturbing enough she used the fake account to harass a 13 year old girl named Megan Meier on Myspace with comments like “the world would be a […]

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Why Facebook and Myspace piss me off

June 16, 2008

Tweet I find myself checking Facebook multiple times daily but I really could care less about it. There’s the odd time that I see a interesting news feed or get a random message from some person that went to high school with me that I have never talked too before. Why the hell are we […]

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Does anyone even use dial-suck anymore?

June 16, 2008

Tweet I remember my very first internet connection, of course being dial-up or dial-suck as I like to call it. I’m sure it was most peoples first connection to the internet. I can’t even remember the name of the first company I used but I do recall using NetZero for a bit when I didn’t […]

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Interesting facts about the internet part 1

June 15, 2008

Tweet First off some history about the creation of the Internet: In October 1969 The first host-to-host Internet message is sent across ARPANET (the forerunner to the Internet) from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute in the United States. February 1973 FTP is born. August 1988 IRC is created. November 1990 The WWW was created. […]

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