Shortest URLs on Earth http://tinyarro.ws/

Connect Flickr to your BlackBerry smartphone http://ping.fm/iDQlT

I hate users

Be honest. 

Would you like it if I called you a ‘user’?

User is the computer term for a Gringo. Cringo for short. 

It implies that they are so insignificant that we – the company developing the product and oddly enough selling to the same user – couldn’t be bothered to find something more appropriate.

You’re not convinced, [...]

How to use the Google Checkout shopping cart http://ping.fm/oTPNp Demo here http://ping.fm/vpfbk

Adobe close all offices for 1 week http://ping.fm/5RE5u

Google Adsense guide explains its payment process http://ping.fm/4rm8R

How to use Google’s Wonder Wheel?

The Google Wonder Wheel visualizes your search results around a central wheel which expands into multiple ‘spokes’ based on the subject matter. The wheel was introduced in May 2009.

It’s very similar to a mind-mapping application, only it uses a wheel/spoke concept rather than then tree/branch metaphor you see in other mind mapping products.

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What Are Yahoo Connections?

Another feature in the new version of Yahoo Mail is the Connection manager. 

Connections are contacts with privileged benefits. 

They’re the people you spend the most online time with and the people you are most about sharing information with. Connections can view more information on each other’s profiles than is visible to the general public and can [...]

How to be in included in Google News

In order to be included in Google News, your articles URLs should meet the following guidelines:

1. Be unique. 

Each of your pages that display an article’s full text needs to have a unique URL. 

Google can’t include sites in Google News that display multiple articles under one URL, or that do not have links to pages dedicated solely [...]

Why the Press Release in Dead – From PR to RIP

Two words. Press. Release. Press releases are a relic from the past. Think about it. Who wrote the first press release? Why did he write it? There was a time when these mattered but not today. Why?

Let’s look back for a moment.

In the 1950s, a car company would write a press release.
They’d send it to [...]