Archive for December, 2009

December 30th, 2009 | By: Garin Kilpatrick

342 movies. 7 minutes. HD. This is Cinema 2009.

This video is the product of 12 Months of Hard Work from editor and YouTube user Kees van Dijkhuizen. Although only uploaded a week ago the video has already over 400,000 views and is well on its way to viral status. Kees has an eerily blue avatar for his YouTube profile picture, within which he is wearing a Santa hat. Although I have certainly seen better Avatars I feel that Kees more than makes up for this shortcoming with the exceptional video below.

December 29th, 2009 | By: Garin Kilpatrick

Google had a big year in 2009. The Droid won gadget of the year from TIME. Over one million invites to the Google Wave platform were sent. The Google Chrome web browser increased its market share, and even a Chrome Operating System for netbooks was released.

Google Zeitgeist is a year end summary of trends that Google tracks, based on the billions of search queries that Google servers execute. The word zeitgeist means literally “spirit of the times.”

December 26th, 2009 | By: Garin Kilpatrick

Twitter recently added a new addition to the goodies section of their website, featuring official twitter buttons. Twitter buttons are a welcome addition to the goodies section, which has for some time included only some of the more popular twitter applications, and customizable status and list widgets. An example of a custom list widget can be seen in the sidebar to the right.

December 22nd, 2009 | By: Garin Kilpatrick

The following 10 free resources are the best ways to shorten and customize links on the web. With the link shortening services below you will be able to make links really short, customize them, track their analytics, and share them easily. Not all link shortening services offer all of these features. Read the list below and let us know in the comments what your favorite link shortening service is!

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December 19th, 2009 | By: Garin Kilpatrick

I just upgraded to Wordpress 2.9 and after reviewing a few blog posts about the new features I have created my own post with the three features that are the most vital to Bloggers. This latest version of Wordpress is named “Carmen” and can be downloaded here.

December 19th, 2009 | By: Garin Kilpatrick

Tumblr and Posterous are two of the easiest and most powerful blogging platforms on the net, and that makes them awesome. In this post I am going to examine the commonalities, strengths, and weaknesses of each platform so that you can decide if either (or both) are right for you.