Facebook’s continuous crusade to ‘improve’ their site has led them to come up with an obviously standard but unwise (given the site’s purpose) feature, which is to have Facebook Usernames in the URL. In other words, your profile will now have an address of facebook.com/firstname.lastname The catch? You can’t change the address once you set it. Ever. I dunno about this. Over at LinkedIn you can freely choose between the numeric URL or pick your own, and you are given the choice to change it whenever you want. What’s FB up to this time? The primary...

This isn’t exactly a search engine but it’s a nifty tool when you’ve already found what you’re looking for (or something close) but want to check out other sites sporting the same information. It’s called SimilarSites and works using page rankings – quite a homage to Google’s Similar Pages – where you type in the URL and you get sites with similar content. I haven’t used it robustly but I realized it doesn’t use the entire URL for the search but rather the root. So for instance if you plug in...

I was watching Microsoft’s E3 Press conference (yes Geek, rest your balls) and I was blown away at the possibilities of their new gadget even if the technology itself is not that new (but less refined). As an answer to Nintendo Wii’s motion sensing controller (which is brilliant, at least with what you can do with it with some hacks), M$ introduces a full body motion sensining device with voice and face recognition. I think it’s pure genius, at least in potential. The early implementations are typical of course, but sine the option is available, games will be...

I swear, I knew this would happen. Ever since Google released Chrome, my cousin and I wondered if Google would release an email client. “No,” he said, “they’d never want to destroy Thunderbird.” Indeed, they need not destroy Thunderbird, for Google as always is taking email to a new dimension. The idea behind Wave is that instead of imitating snail mail, which is how email works, the focus is shifted to the message itself which all recipients can see at the same time. In other words, it’s a message focused tool instead of a recipient focused tool....

I have just stumbled upon a site that I believe is to become the next TED Talks, and perhaps the next Wikipedia. Say hello to Academic Earth. Academic Earth is what I have been dreaming of – absolutely FREE education (bar internet costs of course) by some of the top scholars from the best of the best universities worldwide. Finally, someone had the same vision as I did – offering a free course to the public! If you’re a student you can inform whoever is concerned to contact the site and upload lectures to it. I absolutely would love to see this site grow and become...