I see more and more efforts and opportunities to try and get smaller as the world around us gets overwhelmed with more and more information. For some reason as the world appears to get smaller in front of us, there’s a desire to get more in touch with what’s happening around us locally as well.

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 …read more

I’m knot sure what it is about the weigh eye grew up, but I always seam too find and point out errors in spelling, typos and other slips of the English language. That is except win it’s my own writing sometimes.

The FunnyTypos.com website provides a place to both collect and highlight some of the greatest examples of typos, misspellings, bad grammar and Engrish. Users submit photos and examples of these highlights of the English language and forever capture it on the web.
Like other similar sites that collect photos and images from the user community that all support a general theme, …read more

What do you do when you want to subscribe to a magazine but you just can’t decide if you’re really going to like it for the full term of the subscription? What if your mood changes through the year and you always want something different to read?

The Maghound website is going to deliver exactly what you’ve been looking for in your reading material. They say it’s the magazine lover’s best friend, I say it’s for magazine lovers afraid of commitment.
The Maghound service lets you select 3 magazines and subscribe to them for $4.95/mnth. If at some point you decide you …read more

I’m not sure why, but I remember as a kid reading through the classifieds and finding a section of "ads" from people who had met each other randomly but didn’t really exchange contact information. They would put up an ad and hope the other person would read it and remember the event.

The Blinka.me website is attempting to take that whole "reconnect" effort and webify it with some good ol’ Web 2.0 charm.
Combining the simple idea of the classified ad, with the power of the Internet, GPS, mapping and social media should make those efforts pay off in a significantly …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

Just today I took a picture of a document and emailed it to someone for them to see the comments that were written on the page. It was kind of like faxing something to them, but without the fax machine.

Then this evening I hear about the Qipit website which promotes sending documents in just that way. Use your camera on your phone to take a picture of a document and then share that document using the network connectivity of your phone.
Qipit does more than just send documents. You can also just store them, actually fax them, email them or even …read more

Personally I love all the information that’s available to you on the Internet. The challenge though is finding the time to even get a glimpse of everything that’s going on online. Popurls gives you an easy way to find what’s popular across a variety of websites.

Popurls labels themselves as a "genuine aggregator". They bring together everything being discussed on the most popular networks online. Whether or not you’re active on twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, Yahoo Buzz, Technorati and more, Popurls is bringing it all together for you on one screen. The Popurls site is even bringing you the popular photos …read more

One of the things I really enjoyed in my early days of being online were the chat rooms on America Online. The idea that there was almost always a room full of people somewhere talking about stuff that probably interested me was intriguing.

The Omegle website brings back some of that feeling for me. The biggest difference is you’re not sharing a chat room with a bunch of people though. It’s just you and one other person and you’re thrown together randomly.
Both of you are completely anonymous aside from whatever information you decide to share with each other while you’re chatting.
It …read more

As I was writing a post in computers on EveryJoe about gadget device size, I uncovered this handy site with loads of phone specs at PhoneScoop.com. It’s very nicely organized and is loaded with information. With the popularity of cell phones continuing to increase exponentially, finding the right one for you is probably the hardest task.

The site is very well-designed and allows you to select multiple phones and compare them on specs and features. It really makes finding that right one for you super easy. As I said in my other post, size isn’t my biggest concern, it’s more …read more

How many times have you been mindlessly surfing through the web and halfway oblivious to the world around you? You’re paying attention but you’re almost numb to really what’s happening in front of your eyes. Then you see it. It kind of catches you off guard and immediately you’re alert and perhaps irritated. You’ve just seen a SparkWord.

A SparkWords is something you read and you’re immediately "sparked" with emotion. It could be a variety of emotions, but you immediately feel something inside of you.
The SparkWords site allows you to jump into the topics of interest for you. Share your thoughts …read more