Second Life – Virtual Economy Metrics

Second Life is one of those companies that just continues to amaze me in regards to how it is connecting with ‘real’ society and also how it continues to be a very profitable and expanding business/network. Always open with their metrics, SL released a newly updated Virtual...

DemocraKey – Bringing Privacy and Security to your iPod

I’ve blogged about many security and privacy issues over the years and I’m always on the lookout for new tools that will help me protect my privacy and keep ‘the man’ from snooping on what I do online. DemocraKey.com popped up on my radar and I checked out the...

Tracking Web 2.0

I follow the so called Web 2.0 industry fairly close, I monitor and review new startups and hold accounts with dozens of Web 2.0 and older 1.0 websites. Keeping track of all these companies becomes quite a chore and after the initial buzz has warn off a lot of times these 2.0 startups...

10 BETTER Things To Do With a PC with No Internet

Recently DG of Speaking Freely ran a popular story that bubbled up on Digg and del.icio.us about what to do with your PC when you have no Internet connection. I read the article and was generally unimpressed by DG’s ideas for the lonely few who can’t get...

Writer – Online Writing Web 2.0 Style

(no the screenshot above is not just an empty black screen) Forget Google Documents and Zoho, Writer by John Watson and BigHugeLabs.com is lean and mean and gets you started immediately. I like Writer for a few reasons, first because it’s black and has the uber geeky green text,...