Prior to getting into consulting and technology development, I spent about a decade in the travel industry. I quickly moved into a technology role within travel so I became quickly interested in any new travel related technologies. To this day I still enjoy keeping tabs on some of the travel tools that are now available online.

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 …read more

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 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

Perhaps we should just shorten it to U2be. What do you think? Not sure why I hadn’t heard of this concert happening before now, but you can watch U2 perform live on YouTube tonight from their Rose Bowl concert.

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. …read more

One of my favorite commercials right now is the Verizon commercial where the kids are trying to get their parents to take it easy on their Facebook updates and twittering. It’s funny because our family can relate, and yes, many people would say I’m that dad on twitter.

My wife and I are both on Facebook (she’s probably more active on it than I am) and I’m on twitter quite a bit. We have two kids and our oldest is always looking over our shoulder to see what we’re saying. Both sets of our parents are also on Facebook as …read more

The folks behind Farm Town on Facebook have released some new functionality and features that are now available to those of us willing to admit we’re addicted. A couple of friends and I have a good time helping each other out on our farms, but we haven’t come close to this magic.

The Farm-Town.com website has put together a great collection of tips and tricks so you can learn how to do a little bit more with your farm than just grow some crops and raise some animals.
Taking advantage of the angled perspective of the farm layout and some forced …read more

My personal belief is that one of the best things about the whole social media and web 2.0 world of things is the interaction. It’s about connecting with people and interacting. It’s about sharing your thoughts without being forced to share anything else.

I was visiting a website today and wanted to leave a comment. The problem was I couldn’t leave a comment without creating an account and registering as a user for the website. I may never visit this site ever again in my life, why should I have to register and create an account just to leave a …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

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