It was three years ago today that I wrote my first post for Uncover the Internet. My first post was about the YouSendIt service which lets you send large files to people via the Internet instead of email. It’s a site I still use and recommend to this day.
Over the years I’ve written about quite a few different sites and interesting things you can find on the world wide web. The web is loaded with fun stuff to find and share with others and hopefully we can keep uncovering interesting items and useful sites for you to enjoy.
If you have …read more

Greetings everyone!
Just a quick note to let you know that I’ll be blogging from Blog World Expo for the next few days. It’s my first trip to Vegas (other than a layover where I just stayed in the airport once) and my first attendance at a Blog World Expo event as well.
I’m looking forward to meeting some new people and hearing about some great blogs. For that reason, I’m guessing that most of my posts for the next couple of days will be about interesting new blog sites I’ve heard about or met the author.
Stay tuned because we’ll be back …read more

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

One of the more interesting applications I’ve been using lately is twitter. At first I didn’t really get it. I was already using IM and blogging and e-mail of course, so the ability to blast out a short little “tweet” about what I’m doing just seemed like a waste of time.
I didn’t really catch on to the power of the application until I attended SXSW a few weeks ago in Austin and the entire b5 team used it as a sort of GPS tracking and status update mechanism for anyone in our group. We used it for quick information …read more

Don’t send a lame Starring You! eCard. Try JibJab Sendables!

Pretty funny stuff. Go check it out at JibJab.com and make one with you and your friends.
Technorati Tags: SNL, What Is Love, dance video, JibJab, b5media, Jeremy Wright, Aaron Brazell

The b5 Tech Channel is having a bit of a theme going on now where our various writers are talking about what application they couldn’t live without. As I develop more web-applications it became an easy transition for me to start thinking about what website could I not live without.
Since I can’t even begin to start thinking about limiting that down to a functional list I figured I’d throw it out to the group. Here’s a new poll about what website you couldn’t live without. I’ve started with a few entries that came to mind quickly, but this poll will …read more

After just stopping by both Jeremy Wright’s and Aaron Brazell’s blogs I read stories about them moving (or already have moved) to deleting their Facebook profiles. Reading on to figure out why, it turns out that the Facebook Beacon service, a Business-to-Consumer marketing tool is seriously whizzing all over privacy concerns for individuals on Facebook. This is a clip from Aaron’s Technosailor blog:
The privacy concerns that have been demonstrated by the Beacon program is well documented. One guy bought his girlfriend a an engagement ring on Overstock.com and she found out about it by reading his Facebook profile where Overstock …read more

In the same light at Go Elf Yourself, here’s another holiday themed customized movie you can make by uploading your own photos. Avoid the Regift site, sponsored by Panasonic, gives you the opportunity to add more faces. The moving mouth part isn’t as smooth as Elf Yourself, but still entertaining.
Here’s one I threw together with fellow bloggers and team members at b5media, including myself, Jeremy Wright and Aaron Brazell.

The Land of Regift website beats Elf Yourself with regards to making it easy to share an embed the code to share with others.
Don’t forget about Scrooge Yourself too! All of them …read more

I forgot all about CBS usually having a Survivor Fantasy League. I stumbled across it this evening and signed up for one. I also setup a private tribe that if you’re interested you can join in on the fun.
With this private tribe, I can only have 8 people join so it will be the first 8 people that leave me a comment asking to be invited to the private tribe.
I love Survivor and if you’re a fan as well you can catch-up on past episodes on CBS’ innertube site as well as get all the lovely gossip and scoop …read more

This time last year I was publishing my first post on Uncover the Internet. Lots has happened since then. A variety of posts have become the most popular and stayed the most popular in that time.
Here’s a list of the Top 10 most visited posts on the site:

PeekVid – Watch Videos Online
World of Warcraft Cartography
Another New Way to Search With URL
Warning Time Suck: Line Rider Flash Game
Craigslist Tips and Tricks
Snagajob
Hostess Pie Twinkies and Other Evil Evil Delights
Voki – Make an Animated Audio Avatar of Yourself …read more