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I always wondered if Twitter would make it to the mainstream. I wasn’t sure if it would. Most people were too busy “poking” each other on Facebook or stalking lil’ kids on MySpace. But, it made it…and I’m a bit surprised to be honest.

Twitter just hit the one-billion tweets milestone today. Its not official or anything. The number of tweets were being counted by a 3rd party site called [...] Continue Reading…

Hotmail Gets Screwed By the Redesign

Did anyone notice the Hotmail inbox redesign? I didn’t really see a buzz about this on the web. Gmail adds some stupid, ugly emotions and everyone starts talking about it. Some people probably even jacked off to it. Its just hilarious. Microsoft haters!

I’m not going to talk good about Hotmail anyway. First of all, I would like to say that Hotmail just totally fucked itself up with the new [...] Continue Reading…

Piss off an A-list Blogger for Traffic

There are tons of ways to put your site under the spotlight. People come up with new ideas all the time. But, I just saw a really one. Its called “pissing-off-the-owner-of-a-huge-blog.”

I’m sure you all heard of Mashable. Its the 11th most popular blog on the web according to Technorati. They get over a million unique visitors per month (don’t worry, I did my research). And they have a shit [...] Continue Reading…

Knol is an Epic Failure. Seriously.

Google Knol. Remember that little fella? Well its an epic failure. To be honest, the concept sucks! Google does have some neat stuff, but how on earth did they think of Knol?

Anyone can write a knol and publish it, right? Now that’s good. People are sharing their knowledge. But, the problem is that its not very user-friendly. Its not the type of site you would go to if you [...] Continue Reading…

How I Backup My Sites

Yeah you gotta backup your sites and you have to do it properly. You need to do more than just saving it on your computer. I’ll tell you how I do it.
Making the backup

I download all the files and databases to your computer.
I zip everything and put a password on it. I use WinRAR to do this.
Name the .zip file to something like “wr_oct-5.zip”. (Make sure you have the [...] Continue Reading…