Internet Services worth a crap 2

19 12 2008

OK, so Twitter is one of those things that you either love or hate and is talked about adnausium on many websites and podcasts.  I completely didn’t get the use of twitter partly because no one that I personaly know, uses it.  Most of my friends are not very tech/net savvy and to be completely honest I am really bad at maintaining interpersonal relationships.  Factor in that I tend to dislike canned news from the major networks and that Twitter is not very user friendly without getting some 3rd party help.  Enter Mr Tweet.

Mr Tweet is a free service that scans your followers and followed.  It then makes a list of recommended people for you to follow that may be of interest.  It generally only takes a few hours for this process could take a week or so, in the case of Leo Laporte who is following 600 people and is followed by 60,000+ people.  Now that I have been able to easily find other people on Twitter that have similar interests and who actually share those interests via tweets (a message on Twitter is called a tweet), Twitter has become much more useful to me.





Internet Services worth a crap

3 12 2008

This may end up being one post that I ignore in the future because I can’ get any reviews done and it may also end up being something that I end up forgetting about 15 seconds after I click “post”.  My intention is to take a look at some of the services out there on the ‘net and let folks know what doesn’t suck.

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Free TV and Movies and it’s legal?!?

21 03 2008

Yes, that’s right.  Movies and Television shows are now available on the Internet for free and it’s legal.  The website is Hulu.com and it is pretty cool.  For a sight that just started its library of stuff isn’t too shabby.  It all streams to your computer and can be viewed in the browser window or in full screen mode.  Some stuff even has a “high definition” option and looks pretty darn good especially considering it is streamed content.  There is some old stuff along with some new stuff, which was a bit surprising to me.  Check it out and enjoy.