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Posts Tagged ‘favorite’

Recommended Extensions: travelling into the future with Firefox

The orange-blue fox is our favorite browser, no doubt – and one of the reasons is the incredible number of plug-ins available. In FF-lingo, they’re called “extensions” and they cater virtually every need: whether it’s a webmaster checking his page for errors, a SEO looking for those juicy follow-Links or Mr. average surfer looking for more comfort: almost every need is catered. Recently, MacStories has compiled an interesting postings that saves power-foxers a lot of time. Read the rest of this entry »

Mr. Tweet: find those like-minded folks

mtbanner Mr. Tweet: find those like minded folksOf all twitter add-on services, Mr. Tweet has surprised me most during the last week. That basic aim of the service is to let you find folks in whose tweets you might be interested in. Since twitter is still growing so rapidly, topic-specific selection becomes more and more inevitable. Yet while I’m quite sure that in the long run the retweet-rate will act as twitter’s “backlink factor”, Mr. Tweet introduces a well thought-through recommendation system. Read the rest of this entry »

Old Man Stewart shakes his fist at Twitter

Comedian Jon Stewart has his popular character “Old Man Stewart” explain our favorite Microblogging Service. Why is everybody at congress going crazy about 140 chars, especially congress? And why is everybody on Grunter these days? This is just hilarious! Read the rest of this entry »

Best/worst gadget: Carnival elongation till 31st of January

6fire Best/worst gadget: Carnival elongation till 31st of JanuaryAbout two weeks ago I started a blog carnival on the Best and worst gadget of 2008. Since a couple of bloggers didn’t yet have time to finish their entries, I’m extending the deadline: the carnival now ends on the 31st of January. So if you want to come aboard, you can enter your posting until next Saturday. Obviously, not everything that glitters is gold – or even silver. But let’s face it: the web 2.0 revolution has turned us all into beta-testers. But geeks usually love do-it-yourself attitudes anyways :mrgreen: Read the rest of this entry »

Blog-Carnival: Best and worst gadget 2008

6fire Blog Carnival: Best and worst gadget 2008A new year has just started and I’m happy to invite all my readers to datadirt’s first blog carnival: I’m curious about the new hardware you bought during the last year. Which shiny piece of technology is your favorite gadget, and which not-so-shiny one disappointed you? Feed the inner geek, write about satisfaction and disappointment. I’m sure that most of my readers experienced both scenarios, so let’s just share them and spread the knowledge :mrgreen: Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome, dear new follower!

I recorded this 1-minute introduction video for all my fellow tweet-geeks: micro blogging is great, and it’s even more fun if you can put a face to the name. So this is how datadirt (that would be me) rolls:

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The Gina Lisa Google bomb

Gina Lisa was a contestant in the hugely succesful tv-series “Germany’s next top model”. Even though she had to leave the show after the first rounds, she won a lot of fans during that period. Gina Lisa is blond, has pretty impressive eyes and a lot of people – especially women – claim that she looks the tyical porn star. Her favourable sexy looks and clothes were not quite contradicting this judgement. Read the rest of this entry »

My favorite god/ess

Johannes asked me to write a review of my favorite god/ess for monochroms Polytheism blog. The Viennese based group announced 2008 as the year of polytheism: the basic idea is to overcome unnecessary borders drawn by religion and – this is just my personal interpretation – to post-teenage religion. Read the rest of this entry »