Not too long ago I wrote about the CardFunk website and all the cool and animated cards you can create and customize to send to friends. They’ve just updated their content and now have more Christmas cards to get your CardFunk groove on.

If you’re not familiar with what happens, you upload a picture of yourself and some friends and embed their images on some dancing, animated characters on the card. They usually dance and sing and it’s all around a good time to be had by all.

When you watch these cards, you can’t help but bring a little smile to yourself because let’s face it. Anything dancing, dressed up in Christmas cheer and a face that looks like you or your friends has got to be funny! If you disagree, well Bah-Humbug to YOU Mr. Scrooge!

One of its latest cards is Christmas With The Stars. Appropriately imitating and spoofing Hollywood icons and legends, this animated card allows you to transform you and your friends into dancing celebrities such as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Bob Marley.

Another is the techno-inspired Dancing Christmas Toys. This card is set up in a Santa’s workshop where familiar entertainment figures are showcased and spoofed. The user will get the chance to be Captain Jack Sparrow, Betty Boop, Wonder Woman, Spiderman or Anakin Skywalker after uploading his/her photo.

Last one is the Wild West Christmas. Having the Great Plains as a backdrop, the user can have a lot fun having his/her headshot placed on dancing cowboy or cowgirl to the tune of a very funky music.

How can you go wrong with a line-up like that? So go on! Get moving and start bringing some holiday cheer to your friends! It’s all waiting to be uncovered and delivered at CardFunk.com

With the holidays coming up, you may want to start thinking about what to get some of those family members on your gift list. One of the gifts that’s almost always a guaranteed hit is some kind of photo gift.

With Photovisi, you can create a custom photographic collage and have that collage printed on a variety of products to be given as gifts if you’d like.
The Photovisi website provides a variety of starter templates to get you going with your ideas, but once you’ve started, you can customize and adjust to collage to exactly what you want to see.
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Here lately I’ve been really paying attention to trying to save some money wherever possible. I don’t consider myself a hardcore coupon person, but if I see a coupon for something we buy regularly, then I’ll save it and use it.

The Cellfire website brings that pin-point item selection right to you. What’s nice is they deliver those coupons to you in a way that’s probably as convenient as possible and something you’ve already got with you at the store: your cell phone and a store savings card.
Cellfire is the premier destination for valuable savings on groceries, shopping, restaurants, and …read more

One of my early website clients was a neighborhood association. There hasn’t been a lot of activity on the site, and now with the power of the social web sites like Neighborino are delivering real-world communities with a place to share community online.

Neighborino puts all the tools and resources you need to both communicate with, engage and build an online community for the homeowners in your real-life neighborhood. Neighborino gives you the ability to quickly send updates to all homeowners and update your website, provide users with a community directory, classified ads listings and so much more.
Affordability for all …read more

A few months ago I shared a post about a group of 36 skateboarders in San Francisco that created a pretty cool video. They used Freebords to make a video of what appeared to be a Tetris game as they skated downhill.
Here’s a video showing how they did it.

I’m going to geek out for a bit here and tell you all about a site that some of you may never use. I spent the majority of my day today troubleshooting a problem I was experiencing trying to get some reports to work on a website I’m working on for a client.

In searching for the answer to my problem online, I uncovered the Stack Overflow website. It’s completely free to join and there are questions and answers to just about any question the geeks around us might have to ask.
You can use the easy tagging functionality to quickly jump …read more

I’ll bet you’ve not seen girls jump-roping like this before in your life. They’re doing more than just jumping and spinning the rope multiple times on one jump. These girls are fantastic!

Thanks to my friend William Lehman over at Decloned for sharing the video on his blog. I’ve never heard of the Firecrackers before, but not I’m checking out their schedule so I can go see them perform at another event for half-time.

Have you ever had something you needed to get off your chest but you couldn’t really share it with anyone? Sometimes there’s just something cathartic about letting something go verbally.

The truu confessions website, currently in beta, lets you share stuff anonymously. If you told somebody you knew, and it was a secret, it probably wouldn’t be a secret for long. Chances are the person you’d share with would know the people you’re talking about, then they’d feel the need to share it someone and eventually it would get back to the original person.
No good usually comes from spreading rumors and …read more

Let’s hope your Monday starts a little bit better than this today. It’s always tough to get your week started, but hopefully this little video will give you some perspective that your day can’t start off this badly.

Hat tip to Eric Clark on twitter for sharing this video.

I just heard about a new online tool recently called Springpad. It allows you to quickly organize and share a variety of bits and pieces of information that you collect throughout the day that are important to you and put them into defined structure and places.

The other benefit of Springpad is that it harnesses the power of the social networking world and allows you to interact with and share your collections of data with those that are important to you too.
I would say the power of Springpad doesn’t rely in it’s ability to collect your information though, it’s more …read more