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Lala.com – How to make free playlists based on your favorite artists and listen anywhere

Anthony — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:46:28 +0000

lala.com

URL:

http://www.lala.com

What is Lala?

Lala.com is an online music store and compact disc trading website created by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Bill Nguyen. The service allows trade-enabled members to legally create online shareable “playlists” (formerly known as “radio stations”) of their own uploaded music which can play full length songs for other registered Lala members, purchase MP3s, stream music on a one-time basis or as inexpensively purchased “web songs.” New members can upload their own music, create playlists, purchase MP3s and web songs, buy new CDs at the Lala store, leave blurbs, and can change their personal account settings to activate trading privileges and also be able to trade CDs and use the community forums. Apple, Inc. acquired Lala on December 4, 2009. (via Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Lala

Lala is great for listening to music from where ever you are, but did you know that you can have Lala create a playlist for you baed on your favorite artists? Using their “Mix it up” feature you can easily search for an artist, then on the right click [Mix it up]. This will take your current artist and similar artists and create a playlist for you. It can’t get much easier than that!

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Slideshare.net – How to get event powerpoint presentations for free

Anthony — Sat, 02 May 2009 05:04:32 +0000

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http://www.slideshare.net

What is Slideshare?

Slideshare allows its users to upload, share and collaborate on powerpoint presentations and Microsoft Word documents. Many times speakers at differente events and seminars put up their presentations on Slideshare to share with its viewers. This means you can search thousands upon thousands of powerpoint presentations from many popular events and seminars held worldwide.

What you may not know about Slideshare

Not only can you find powerpoint slides and Word documents, you can favorite and tag them to quickly create your own library of presentations. Furthermore, on the right side of the presentation is the option to view related presentations to further your learning. So stop using Google and Wikipedia as your only news source and start being more intuitive on your content learning. Download powerpoint presentations on your topics and continue to broaden your knowledge presented by others.

Here’s a quick video on Slideshare:

Wikipedia.org – How to get news fast on your favorite topics

Anthony — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:23:56 +0000

URL:

http://www.wikipedia.org

What is Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a collaborative encyclopedia. This means that all of the content on Wikipedia is written and updated by it’s users. Virtually anyone can add/remove/change content on Wikipedia. Having this kind of power with collaborative content. The contents of Wikipedia is very large and continously expanding, quickly. You can find virtually anything about nearly any topic on Wikipedia.

What you may not know about Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a feature for logged in users called My Watchlist. This allows you to monitor different pages on any subjest you want. Since content about different topics on Wikipedia is updated so frequently and fast, its possible to use Wikipedia as a news source. So by adding your favorite topics to your Watchlist and monitoring the changes, you can get the newest knowledge about a topic your interested in, directly from the authors of Wikipedia, millions.

Here’s a quick video of Wikipedia:

Youtube.com – How to add videos longer than 10 minutes to youtube

Anthony — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:04:49 +0000

URL:

http://www.youtube.com

What is Youtube?

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS and the BBC and other organizations offer some of their material via the site. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know you can do with Youtube

If you may not know already, Youtube users are currently limited to 10 minute video uploads, but using a few Youtube techniques you can add videos longer than 10 minutes. In short, crop you video into 10 minute segments, upload them, create a Youtube playlist of your videos, then create a custom video player which plays your playlist, embed the video to your website or blog, voila, you have a Youtube video player that plays a video larger than 10 minutes.

Here’s a video on how to do this :

Justin.tv – How to broadcast yourself live on the internet

Anthony — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:04:11 +0000

URL:

http://www.justin.tv

What is Justin.tv?

Justin.tv, founded in San Francisco by Justin Kan, is a network of diverse channels providing a platform for lifecasting and live video streaming of events online. The original Justin.tv was a single channel that evolved into the Justin.tv network of thousands of diverse channels. Justin.tv follows the tradition of sousveillance, i.e. the recording of an activity from the perspective of a participant in the activity. Justin.tv builds upon other previous similar projects also featuring 24/7 live Internet streaming (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Justin.tv

It doesn’t take any special software to install on your computer, just a webcam and/or a microphone and you start to broadcast yourself live on the internet. Justin.tv also allows you to archive your recordings for later viewings. Each channel has a chat room which allows current viewers to chat and discuss the events in the video.

Here’s a quick video on Justin.tv:

Technorati.com – Find popular blogs on any category

Anthony — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:04:56 +0000

URL:

http://www.technorati.com

What is Technorati?

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati, or intellectuals. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Technorati

Technorati is a great tool for bloggers to get the competitive advantage. Using Technorati you can learn what other bloggers are writing about a topic that you maybe writing about and you can see what the reaction is by the readers. Find out what is working best on other blogs in your niche and do the same on yours.

Here’s a quick video on Technorati:

Mint.com – How to get a text message when you spend too much

Anthony — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:04:59 +0000

URL:

http://www.mint.com

What is Mint?

Mint.com is a free web-based personal financial management service created by entrepreneur Aaron Patzer. Mint provides account aggregation through a deal with Yodlee. Mint’s primary service allows for users to track bank, credit card, investment, and loan transactions and balances through a single user interface. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Mint

You can create customized budgets for different categories such as entertainment, groceries, gas and more. Then you can set mobile alerts to be sent to your cell phone when you’re approaching your budget limit. Say for instance you create a category for your bar tabs. You go to the bar, spend money, and don’t really keep track of how much money you’re spending on drinks. Well now with Mint you can set yourself a limit and you’ll get a text message on your phone when you’re spending too much. This is a great way to manage your spending regardless of where you’re at.

Here’s a quick video on Mint:

WebMD.com – How to lose weight by tracking what you eat

Anthony — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:04:15 +0000

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http://www.webmd.com

What is WebMD?

WebMD, part of HLTH Corporation, is an American provider of health information services. It is primarily known for its public Internet site, which has information regarding health and health care, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, blogs of physicians with specific topics and a place to store personal medical information (read more at Wikipedia).

What you may not know about WebMD

WebMD has a great tool for managing what you eat and your fitness schedule. Using their Food and Fitness planning you can keep track of everything you eat and how often you work out. Using the planner you can search for foods and it will automatically look up the nutrional facts for you and add them to your daily diet. In return you can also track your physical activity such as taking a jog in the morning. They say the best way to help lose weight is to write down everything you eat, well now you can with WebMD’s Food and Fitness planner.

Here’s a quick video on WebMD:

TechCrunch.com – How to learn about popular internet companies

Anthony — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:04:43 +0000

URL:

http://www.techcrunch.com

What is TechCrunch?

TechCrunch is a blog about Web 2.0 products & companies, many of the posts written by Michael Arrington. The blog’s first post was on June 11, 2005. The website’s Technorati rank is 2,and is their 3rd most favorited blog. As of July 17, 2008, it has over 1,320,000 web feed subscribers as measured by tracking company FeedBurner. On August 27, 2008, TechCrunch rolled out a new web site design. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about TechCrunch?

TechCrunch has a feature called CrunchBase that is a huge database of popular internet companies, people, investors, and more. You can learn the details of a company such as the people that work at it, when it was founded, and where all of their office buildings are located.

Here’s a quick video on TechCrunch:

Dopplr.com – How to keep track of your frequent business traveling trips

Anthony — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:04:10 +0000

URL:

http://www.dopplr.com

What is Dopplr?

Dopplr is a free social networking service, launched in 2007, that allows users to create itineraries of their travel plans and spot correlations with their contacts’ travel plans in order to arrange meetings at any point on their journey. Additional features include allowing the user to calculate the carbon footprint their journeys have produced. The site is named after Christian Doppler, discoverer of the Doppler effect (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Dopplr

You can tie in your Flickr image stream to your Dopplr account so that you can share the pictures you take at the different locations that you travel and share them with your friends and family that traveled to the same destinations. It’s also a great way to keep track of all the places that your friends and family are traveling.

Here’s a quick video on Dopplr: