I wanted to follow up on my post yesterday with a quick list of the best sites for consuming music. Although these products don’t have applications (yet), they have sites that are worth playing around on.
SONGZA: simple and sexy UI; great if you know the title or artist; no account necessary
MUSICOVERY: fun way to find [...]
For the past month, I’ve been working on a project to build a music player application. I’ve come across quite a few players; and since I haven’t posted a techy-post in a while, I thought I’d share my five favorites here.
1. Yahoo Music Player
I was blown away with the Yahoo Music Player. I [...]
my favorite site, reddit.com, is powering a public tv show. this is a fantastic idea, there surely will be more to follow.
I love this program by Colorwar2008, where people submit pictures of themselves “then” and “now”. I could browse these comparisons all day! I particularly like those pictures which have the same setting– usually their parent’s home– which contrasts the stability and consistency of “home” with the uncontrollable reality of growing up.
apparently it would take three mother earth’s if everyone lived my lifestyle. The American Public Media jumped on the 2.0 and the green bandwagon at the same time and ended up with this site, to help you calculate your impact on the earth. I don’t buy-in to their algorithm, but it’s a good [...]
I just noticed that google is now offering public transit route on google maps. But the only form of transportation they are including is the caltrain or bart– hardly useful for getting around within the city. When I tried pulling directions from the Apple store in the Marina to the Apple store downtown, it suggested [...]
that’s on the home page of MissBimbo.com, the most appalling new casual game / social network aimed at young girls. Players buy their avatars diet pills, plastic surgery, and slutty clothes to “score that famous hottie” and become “the rising star bimbo”. Gag.
abc article here
google is now allowing us to edit their maps.
But what is stopping people from pulling jokes on friends and moving your house marker to, I dunno, a crack corner?
Ebay has a new pet, MicroPlace, which facilitates micro-loans from folks like us to the world’s working very poor. I’m a fan of micro-lending both because it empowers people to break the poverty cycle through independent entrepreneurship and it’s more fun than making a generic donation. But how does it compare to Kiva?
I [...]
I coincidentally spent International Women’s Day with other female bloggers at a conference hosted by Yahoo’s new womens site, Shine (not yet open the public). Shine will be a female-centric online magazine that pulls content from bloggers, publishers, and a small staff of editors. Check out the business week article here.
The conference brought [...]
When my friend Kirill told me he was leaving his job at Slide to start his own venture, I wasn’t surprised. But when he told me he was starting a social network, I was shocked. In a time when the market is over saturated with social networks, I couldn’t bear another invite to upload my [...]
I can’t wait for the day when TVs are in museums and all our shows are available online.
Add this one to the list. I found an incredibly useful, fun to use tool for apartment searching.
It’s called Hot Pads, and it’s a mash-up of craigslist and google maps. You can adjust your visual search by monthly payment, neighborhood and # of rooms. You can also add notes to your favorite listings.
It’s [...]
I’m a huge fan of this site. Hysterically inappropriate ecards for all occasions.
Happy New Year and welcome to Yelp Elite 2008!We are excited to tell you that you’ve been nominated to be in the Yelp Elite Squad for 2008, and the National Yelp Elite Council at Yelp HQ has approved your nomination! You should now see a spiffy new Elite 2008 badge on your Yelp profile, which [...]
Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends [on facebook] as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” friends (about 800 or more) are seen as insecure. - NY Times
I have 859.
all my pictures (post 1999) are digital, and now scrapbooks are too.
I came across scrapblog.com today, played around, and made this in literally under 5 minutes, without even creating an account:
I LOVE scrap booking, but I haven’t had the time/energy/momentum to actually do so since I was 16. this site is fun, extremely [...]
I just read an article titled “Facebook tracks users even when they’re logged out, without telling them“. a bit disturbed, but mostly in disbelief.
so naturally I turn to Jeff (who conveniently works on data at Facebook) and ask:
me: honey, does facebook really track everything I do?
jeff: did you hear that on valley wag?
me: no, [...]
What’s worse than the fact that those girls were born in the 90s is the line “the fastest way to find hotties on facebook!”.
Daily Routine: hit the snooze button twice. wake up the third time. take a shower. check the weather. get dressed.
The only part of my morning that involves the internet– checking the weather — has been the same dreary experience for years. Why the heck is weather.com such a crappy [...]
1. No Phone Trees. Have you ever noticed that the crappier the customer service of a company, the harder it is to find their number? This site is my new best friend. Just find the company you need to call (comcast? delta?), put in your digits, and they call you when they’ve [...]
freerice.com is a fun site that allows you to play vocabulary games for a great prize– feeding someone who’s hungry! The largest food aid agency, the United Nations World Food Program, distributes the rice to people in over 75 countries. The advertisers, who appear in unobtrusive thumbnails on the bottom of the screen, are [...]
Yoga Bear is looking for a local engineer to help us maintain and improve our site (www.yogabear.org). The site is in django and we’re looking for someone who is willing to make bi-weekly updates. We have meetings roughly once a month where we eat ice cream and talk about changing the world. [...]
Be careful who you friend. When a UK man joined FB, he chose the option which automatically invites your friends via your e-mail account. One of those invites went to the inbox of his ex wife, who had a restraining order against him. In this article, he said he was confused by the [...]
While tonight I enjoyed my two hours of life casting– a.k.a babysitting for iJustine, I could NEVER do it full time. Here are just a few reasons why:
1. People are too critical and there’s no way to kick out the mean ones.
2. I don’t always want my hair and makeup to be perfect.
3. I [...]
Although I majored in finance and corporate finance was my career at one (quite recent) point in my life, personal finance is not my thing. If a bill’s not on auto-pay, it probably won’t get paid. If there’s cash in my wallet, it will probably get spent. Quickly.
But one new website, mint.com, [...]
How am I supposed to leverage my favorite stalker-site if the search feature is down all day?
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