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 powerful in the way it allows you to organize, share and complement what you’ve saved with other important information that’s related. This is the part of Springpad that impresses me and is both most helpful to me.

For example, I can save restaurants to my Springpad collection and there are integrated links for making reservations at that restaurant with OpenTable if available and restaurant reviews from Yelp as well.

For homemakers you can quickly and easily make meal-planning tasks as you go about your day, collect recipes, ask friends for cooking information and then allow Springpad to help build your shopping list automatically.

Springpad integrates with Gmail (for synching your contacts and Google calendar events), flickr for sharing and organizing your thoughts with or related to photos, Facebook to help you share information with your Facebook friends and of course with twitter so you can share links and have alarms and reminders sent to your own account.

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The Dopplr website is a very interesting travel tool that doesn’t serve as a reservations assisting application, but is used more for sharing and interacting with your reservation after they’re booked. In addition, it also lets you share your travel plans easily with your friends, family and other people you trust and want to see your travel itinerary.

If part of your professional career puts you in the category of a "road warrior" for always hopping all over the globe, the Dopplr site could show you when you’ll be in the same city as other friends and coworkers if they’re also using the site.

You can get the scoop on the destination cities your travels take you to, as well as sharing your own tips for travelling along the way.

The end of every year Dopplr will send you a report of your travels for that year. If you have lots of travel scheduled for an entire year they can also show you a nice timeline of what your travel itinerary is going to look like over an extended time.

Uncover information about your travel with Dopplr.

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The Color Scheme Designer website is now in it’s third major iteration and version for users and it will give you quite a bit of information to make sure your next color palette for that project will be exactly what you needed.

The site let’s you select your color preferences on a color wheel and then depending on the type of color scheme you’re needing to put together, it gives you recommendations on all the other colors.

You can put together color schemes for: mono, complement, triad, tetrad, analogic, accented analogic.

The Color Scheme Designer website provides the complementary colors you need along with the RGB and hex values for easily translating your design choices into your website and CSS files.

Put a little color, organized color in your next design and uncover the right ones to use with the Color Scheme Designer website.

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MediaWeek has released their 2009 Digital Hotlist that covers just what has been happening in the world of the web and technology.

1. Facebook – up from #2 on the list in 2008. This site is larger in population than most of the other countries in the world. I used to think Facebook would be replaced sometime by something cooler, not so sure now.
2. Hulu – I’ve been using this more to get some free entertainment. I’ve spoken with a number of people who are debating getting rid of cable/satellite and just relying on sites like Hulu and others for their entertainment fix.
3. Twitter – I think maybe I liked it more when there were less celebrities involved in twitter, but I’m still addicted to this 140-character micro-blogging tool.
4. Google – it’s Google, what else needs to be said?
5. iPhone – I still don’t have one, trying to figure out if I’m upset about it. Is there an app for that?
6. Huffington Post – lots of left-leaning news is getting more popular these days and they’re expanding their topic base to more than just politics.
7. Bing – it’s not a search engine, it’s a decision engine and lots of people have decided to really give it a try and have liked it.
8. Wall Street Journal web (www.wsj.com) – do what? a newspaper that’s still making money online and off? What are they doing right? It appears everything.
9. Federated Media – keeping advertising interactive and relevant, all those eyes watching the other 9 sites are worth a lot of money.
10. Addicting Games – I’m not playing many games these days other than Bubble Breaker and Farm Town. Maybe I should join the millions of other users having fun here.

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Outside.in is working on putting it all together for you. They want to let you know what’s happening, right where you are, right at this moment. It’s being all collected and packaged together in this "hyperlocal" goal.

If you’re a visitor to the site, you can put in your address, neighborhood or zip code and get details and links to the news that’s happening around you.

If you’re a publisher you can grab content from the site for your own website that’s focused on a local market. Tools available allow you to moderate and manage all the information that’s coming into your publishing opportunities from a variety of different sources.

Either way, if you’re interested in what’s happening around you today. Give Outside.in a look and see what news they could be delivering to your door, right when you need it.

Uncover local happenings and events at Outside.in

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Mr. John Hodgman is more than just the PC guy in the commercials. He’s actually quite the intellectual and comedy writer. If you visit his site you can read lots of his opinions on everything you can imagine.

Before he went on television, JOHN HODGMAN was a humble writer, expert, and Former Professional Literary Agent living in New York City. In this capacity, he has served as the Humor Editor for the New York Times Magazine, Occasional Flight vs. Invisibility Consultant on “This American Life,” Advice Columnist for McSweeney’s, Comic Book Reviewer for the New York Times Book Review, and a Freelance Journalist specializing in Food, Non-Wine Alcohol, “Battlestar Galactica,” and most other subjects.

John shares interesting videos, thoughts on various technology news and developments and general current event thoughts and ideas.

If you’re on twitter, you can also follow John at twitter.com/Hodgman.

So, quite your stereotypical thinking and listen up to someone who’s interesting, funny and down right famous!

Visit Mr. Hodgman and read the areas of his expertise today.

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With coupons, you did like I did tonight and save a few bucks on a variety of different grocery items. Groupon let’s you save real money on some really great stuff that you’d like to do, but you didn’t want to spend the full price on it to do it.

Groupon was started by some folks in Chicago, just a short drive to north of Indianapolis and they did it so they could “enjoy all the great stuff in our hometown of Chicago”. Sounds like a good enough reason for me.

Groupon has grown to over a million users who have collectively saved more than $25 million with the service. That’s a pretty good track record for a site that hasn’t been around very long at all.

Have some fun, save some money. Groupon continues to expand, soon it will be in your city if it’s not already there now: Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis/St.Paul, Nashville, New York, Omaha, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, St. Louis, Tampa, and Washington DC.

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Now noodling, the sport of catching catfish by sticking your hand and arm into a hole and letting them bite it, is one thing. But noodling for snapping turtles is something completely different. I’ve been fishing and seen a snapping turtle break a broom stick like a twig. You can believe these suckers he’s catching would take a chunk out of whatever they wanted that they could reach.

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I’m really not sure what to say about the HavenWorks.com site. It does literally leave me speechless. It appears that it’s a randomly thrown together collection of links and information on current news events and politics.

The design is the draw, or repellant depending on your viewpoint. It reminds me of a website I featured awhile back because of it’s "design qualities". The HavenWorks.com site is much more text heavy, it’s all just overwhelming.

Would anyone ever really use a site like this as a regular source of information? 

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I went and saw the U2 in 3D concert at my local IMAX theater last year (or was it two years ago?) and it was amazing. My first thought of watching a concert in a theater wasn’t too high of an expectation, but it turned out to be a really great experience.

I’m guessing watching a concert live on YouTube might be similar. Then again, it may be just because of the group involved that makes it such and impressive sensory experience.

It will be impressive and shocking perhaps to see the numbers of viewers that watch the U2 concert live on YouTube. The only sad part is I’m just not going to be able to stay up tonight and watch it. Stupid Pacific Time Zone!

If you stay up and watch it, let me know what you think. The streaming experience right now is pretty impressive and the concert hasn’t even started yet.

Leave your comments and let me know your thoughts.

Watch U2 in concert LIVE on YouTube.

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