November 4, 2010
So, you’re a savvy internet user. You get all your news from online news sources and social media, yet you realise this approach is a little fragmented. Where’s the middle ground? Who is making sense of the news people really care about? Well, Storyful is making sense of it. At Storyful, curators are busy linking [...]
October 25, 2010
If you’re a new or dedicated Mac user, you will want to bookmark and access at least a few useful Mac community forums that can address questions you have about Apple computers, software, and mobile devices. Websites like MacRumors and several troubleshooting resources sites have been around for years. But one Mac community site, Info-Mac, [...]
October 19, 2010
A Flash Mob is a large group of people who gather at a public location to perform a pre-defined action, typically a brief dance, and disperse rapidly after the event has concluded. Flash Mobs are an internet phenomenon of the 21st century. Although Flash Mobs don’t happen online, they are organized using social media, viral [...]
October 4, 2010
Many of you will have used BitTorrent in the past to obtain files with varying degrees of legality. I’m not going to tell you what you should and shouldn’t download, you probably know that already. A majority of you will have downloaded torrents in the past from public sources such as The Pirate Bay. There’s [...]
October 1, 2010
I recently moved to New York City. There’s no shortage of things to do here, that’s for sure, but when I first arrived I didn’t know where anything was. If I wanted to go on an adventure or go out and meet people I couldn’t, because I didn’t know where all the action was. So [...]
September 27, 2010
For a project that received $10,000 funding within the first 12 days of its announcement, Diaspora has quite a lot to live up to. When you factor in that the funding eventually reached $200,641 and donors to the project include Facebook frontman Mark Zuckerburg (describing it as a “cool idea”) then this open-source social network [...]
September 16, 2010
For many people who live in small towns or isolated communities, it’s very easy to forget that there is a vast world out there full of people that have different beliefs, cultures and values. Prior to the Internet, there were very few windows to the outside world. People always had books and newspapers, but unfortunately [...]
August 9, 2010
Finding a qualified candidate to fill a job posting can be a trying experience. Some firms elect to outsource this task to a recruitment service or hiring firm. Others will post the job opening to Monster.com, or to a syndicated Job posting placement site such as JobCoin, covered here previously. Finally, companies can list jobs [...]
August 7, 2010
Sometimes creative minds need collaboration, and musicians are no exception. You might have come up with the perfect riff, but can’t come up with the complete song. That’s where YouPhonics comes in. YouPhonics, currently in private beta, is an online meeting place for musicians to share snippets of music, recorded and uploaded to their free [...]
August 3, 2010
Many people have a real knack for teaching even the most complicated concepts to people. Other people are avid learners who are always looking for new information to read about, or new skills to acquire. Here at MakeUseOf, we’ve covered a variety of choices for when you want to find resources for online learning, like [...]
