Archive for April, 2007
Are You Ready to Get Going?
Back in December 2006 I wrote, Fill Up Your Social Calendar With HeyLetsGo, about a social site geared towards professionals looking to hook up with other professionals at social events in either Boston, New York or San Francisco. I was informed today that HeyLetsGo has been renamed Going.com and will be expanding soon into Chicago, [...]
50 Deal and Coupon Sites for the Bargain Hunter
This is a list of 50 sites that will help the shopping enthusiast or even sporadic shopper get the best price through deals and coupons. This list is far from complete but offers an array of sites that you may not have heard of before. I found many of these sites in my del.icio.us bookmarks [...]
Mika: Music to Listen to While Blogging
I find it serendipitous that tonight’s Open Mike over at Successful Blog’s is We’re Talking About Song Lyrics because I have been listening to Mika, a new artist I stumbled across a couple of weeks ago and how I can’t get his songs out of my head. His voice reminds me so much of Freddie [...]
Theory Into Practice: Nice Things Happen By Joining LinkedIn
Yesterday I decided to join the professional social networking site LinkedIn because I had come across an old acquaintance who belongs and I couldn’t view his complete profile unless I joined. That was a motivator though I still haven’t contacting him because he was a friend in another lifetime of mine. I still have to [...]
A Pleasant Surprise From Bluehost
Today is a good day. Do you want to know why? Well, I went to log into my control panel with my web host, Bluehost, and I noticed some upgrades that I was unaware of — shame on Bluehost for leaving me in the dark. I’m not in the dark anymore. My Big Surprise Last [...]
myTriggers Pulls Out All of the Stops With ShopBIG
myTriggers, a persistent shopping search engine I reviewed here, has announced the beta launch of a new comparison search engine called ShopBIG. I am a fan of myTriggers having used it quite a bit over the last 9 months, for holiday shopping and electronic items that I patiently waited for price drops. myTriggers has had a [...]
Help Webcasters Save Internet Radio by Signing Savenetradio Petition
I have been listening to Pandora Internet Radio for almost a year now and think that it is the best streaming music player on the net today. So, when I received an email from Tim Westergren, Pandora’s founder asking me to help save Internet radio by signing a petition I took notice. I had already [...]
Looking for Free Books? Check Out This Great List of 40 Sites for Free Books
There are so many resources on the Internet today and it is nice when someone puts together a list to help find the “best of.” That is what James Yeang at Friedbeef’s Tech has done in a series of posts beginning with Top 10 Best Places to Get Free Books (Part 1), then Top 10 [...]
Blog Changes
Please bear with me as I play around with the format of my blog. I am experimenting with different templates and items to put in my side bars. If you have any suggestions for me I’d love to hear them. Please use this contact form. Thanks, Ellen. Similar Posts: None Found
My 10 Best Tech Products of All Time
PC World has published a list of the 50 Best Tech Products of All Time and it really brought me back in time especially the mention of the Apple II, one of the first computers I worked with back in the early 80s. Two men who built a computer in a garage started us off [...]