2009 will go down in history as the year everything at least seemed to change if it didn’t really change completely. It’s become a new world for many people with lots of change in a variety of areas. Perhaps the one thing that still remained the same is that the web is still almost central to much of what we do.

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

Facebook – up from #2 on the list in 2008. This site is larger in population than most …read more

I noticed today that iGoogle has a little bit of a new feature available for users. Now you can see what some famous people and celebrities have on their iGoogle pages. What they’ve chosen for their gadgets and other decor, etc.

Not sure exactly how they chose who to showcase here, but you can see what the person’s homepage looks like and then individually select the gadgets they’ve installed on their pages.
A new little way to feel more in touch with these folks I guess. Interesting way for Google to promote gadgets that are available that people may not have …read more

Bing has been out now for a couple of days and everyone’s written their viewpoints on the new search engine from Microsoft. It’s a nice, new, clean design for Microsoft and their search, but it’s very similar to their Live Search that’s been out for awhile.

I’ve watched the video that was released about Bing and I’ve used the new search decision engine a few different times. My viewpoint is that it’s now really anything astonishingly new or different. I’m sure the logarithms behind everything are pretty cool, but as an end-user, it’s all about the end result of my search …read more

Google may know too much about us right now don’t you think? I’m not worried about it, think it’s pretty cool. I’m sure there are far more important things for me to be worried about, stuff like psycho Carnies moving from town to town setting up amusement rides and taking mental control of our kids.

Viewzi has been around now for quite awhile but for whatever reason I’m just now getting around to really talking about it on the website. It’s a vastly different way to see and review your search results, but it’s one of those areas for me where I’m not sure if it will really replace Google as my main search engine of choice.
You can choose to show your search results as simple text or as a collection of thumbnails as I’ve shown above after a quick search for b5media.
You can further simplify and organize your results.
Give Viewzi a try it may …read more

For quite some time now I’ve been using the Google Toolbar and Google Bookmarks to store many of my preferred websites and resources.
I noticed about a week ago that there seemed to be a new feature in Firefox when I opened a new tab. Instead of being a blank tab, Google was presenting me with thumbnails of my most visited websites, recent bookmarks and even my recently closed tabs.
What a great feature and yet another reason to use Firefox and Google Toolbar. Neither of which seem to have the same features in Internet Explorer 7.
Image: Snagit of New Tab …read more

This post is Part 2 of a guest post written by Amy Halleran, who I met online awhile back through twitter. I asked who might be interested in writing a little guest post and she was one of the first to respond and provide me her article. I think you’ll enjoy it. Let us know what you think in the comments. Perhaps we can convince Amy to write again for us in the future. If you missed Part 1 of Amy’s post, you can catch-up here.
I am all for Googling a date, as long as two basic protocols are observed:
#1 …read more

This post is a guest post written by Amy Halleran, who I met online awhile back through twitter. I asked who might be interested in writing a little guest post and she was one of the first to respond and provide me her article. I think you’ll enjoy it. Let us know what you think in the comments. Perhaps we can convince Amy to write again for us in the future.
Pre Date Screening 1990s:
Lisa phones her best friend Julie (on a land line)
Julie: Hello
Lisa: Guess what?
Julie: I don’t know, what?
Lisa: That guy from the 4th floor asked me out.
Julie: …read more

Having just talked about cool pictures of the inauguration of President Barack Obama, here’s another one you can enjoy that was taken from Google’s new imagery satellite GeoEye-1.
Let’s just say, we really do look just like ants from that height.
Pretty cool.
Source: Obama inauguration viewed from space | Underexposed – CNET News
Uncovered by What Bill Thinks

Image: Screen grab of Gmail by Jason Bean
I’ve been waiting patiently today as I’ve been hearing everything talk about the cool, new themes for Gmail that have now been released. It was all the buzz today on twitter but every time I opened Gmail it was just the same old look and feel.
A couple of hours ago I noticed a little bit of a change to the look and feel and thought that maybe things were in a rolling staged release for users.
I got home from work, fired up the laptop and bingo! there are the themes all there …read more