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

If I say "Mr. PC" most people would know who I’m talking about immediately. If you don’t know who I’m talking about then you probably don’t watch TV or keep in touch with the Apple vs. PC. commercials.

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, …read more

Yesterday I wrote about RSS Bankruptcy and how I didn’t think I would ever keep up with all of my RSS subscriptions. I’ve spoken to a number of people that have started to rely on twitter to get their notifications of what’s happening on the web and what they should be reading.

The ReadTwit website taps into your twitter updates and posts and grabs all the links from your updates and puts them into an RSS feed. You subscribe to the feed and now you can catch all of those interesting websites and links in your preferred feed reader.
The ReadTwit service …read more

I’ve been using a new twitter service application called Twimailer now for a little while. It’s one of the most useful services related to twitter that I’ve come across in quite awhile. There are other nice applications for getting stats and analyzing your twitter use, but for regular information, Twimailer exceeded my expectations.

Normally when you get a new follower on twitter, you’re just given the person’s name with an announcement that they’re now following you. Twimailer gives you a history of the person’s last handful of tweets, their bio and following/follower count.
I’ve been using the service now for a few …read more

There seems to be quite a bit of development going on in the Instant Messaging arenas on a variety of different fronts. You’ve got your individual clients that are always releasing updates. Third party clients that aggregate the individual platforms to a single interface and buddy list. Then you have the website applications that aggregate the individuals to a web page interface with no software to download.

imo.im is the latter and have provided a very simple interface to combine your IM clients onto the web. I tried it out and it does a good job of quickly connecting to your …read more

Sometimes uncovering all the cool stuff on the web means you sign-up for a lot of sites to give them a try, only to realize later that you’re really not interested in maintaining your profile on those sites. The challenge can be trying to get rid of those profiles on sites you’re not interested in using anymore.
There’s a very helpful article on the PC Magazine website on How to Delete Accounts from Any Website. The article runs through the process of getting rid of your profile on one of 23 different websites: Classmates, Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, MySpace, MyLife, Amazon, Audible, …read more

Digg.com has had its share of media exposure both good and bad. I’ve never been a huge Digg.com user, but will Digg pages that I find interesting and I think about it. I’ll regularly Digg stories from friends as well, but not blindly, only after I’ve read them and I think they’re worth Digging as well. That little process has been a bit clunky in my opinion, but Digg.com has made a change/addition that will make it a little easier.
You can click on the image above to see the full-version and notice the new Digg bar that they released that …read more

I had the pleasure of meeting a new person today and was checking out his Patio Genius blog and twitter feed. One of the links he shared was to this site to run a test and see what the sex is of your brain. We ran a poll awhile back and spotlighted a site that would let you know if you browsed the web like a boy or a girl. I love personality tests, so thought this was pretty interesting.
What Sex Is Your Brain?
Image: Snagit from website survey

It’s not much to look at, but it’s hilarious to read through the site and hear the statements taken out of context that people have overheard.
The site was developed by Mark Jaquith one late night at the b5ranch during SXSW 2008. There was an ongoing joke where various people would say things that were funny through the week and we’d keep repeating them. The best is when the statement had some additional meeting when you removed the contextual statements surrounding what was said.
The wasoverheard site works in conjunction with twitter. All you have to do is follow @wasoverheard on your …read more

If you’re new to twitter then I probably should direct you to another post about what the site is about and what you can achieve with using the site. It’s much more than just finding out what everyone is having for lunch or dinner.
If you’re not new to twitter then you’re probably interested in finding some other great people to follow.
Fluent Simplicity has put together the Twitter Brand Index, quite a nice listing of companies, organizations, executives and politicians that are on twitter.
If you need some more twitter fodder to follow, just check out the Twitter Brand Index.