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One of my favorite tables at Web Innovators this week was the one run by the folks at LuckyCal. It's hard not to like a site that offers a way for your calendar to help you get lucky. LuckyCal is a simple idea with decent execution. It assumes that when you are out and about [...]

AwayFind is a contact resource site created by Jared Goralnick, self described productivity evangelist, that is currently in private beta. I had the chance to test this out over the past few days, and I have to say I'm excited for its potential. As with any private beta, it has a few glitches. That's the [...]

The URL shortener. Until recently, this was a niche market left mostly to itself. Who had real use for taking a regular URL and making it smaller just for the sake of a smaller footprint? Not many people Enter micro blogs. When sites like Twitter, Pownce, Plurk and others started coming along with their 140 [...]

I've been trying out Mixin for a few days now in hopes that it would be a bit easier and more social to use than other calendar options. It's promises of social event planning and schedule sharing had me intrigued. My reaction to actual use of the site is a mixed bag. Mixin certainly has [...]

I've spent the last few days trying out Swurl on the recommendation of a friend. I can't quite decide if Swurl is an aggregation service, a lazy person's blog, a Tumblr rival, or all of the above. Whatever it is, it is certainly fairly simple to set up and use. Swurl offers a way to [...]

As many of you know, I covered Cre8Buzz a while back here on the site when it was just starting out. I tend to think of Cre8Buzz as the little social content network that could. I have a unique behind the scenes perspective of the company, and the people behind it work hard for its [...]

The internet is always rife with rumor and innuendo, just ask any Mac lover. We live and breath rumors that can be generated with something as small as a bit of weight loss from Steve Jobs, a shipping label or a timely patent filing. Lately it is social media that has been riding the rumor [...]

It seems odd for this child of the 80s to type that Peter Gabriel has become a technology investor. All this time I thought he wanted to be my sledgehammer, and it turns out he wanted to be my filter instead. That doesn't sound nearly as exciting, does it? It may not sound exciting, but [...]

I had the idea for this post earlier this week when I realized that Twitter's API being broken was causing issues, but we still weren't leaving. Cyndy covered that failure of Twitter users to vote with our feet in her article on Tweeterboard closing, and I touched on it briefly this week when I talked [...]