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Facebook is growing fast.. maybe too fast!

As I have said before, I always enjoy looking into numbers for some companies because they are usually so impressive, they sometimes sound unbelievable. Techcrunch has an article about the speedy growth of Facebook and increasingly huge requirements to operate their site. Last...

Google Street View makes...

Google may be praised for some of the services it provides and it may be denounced for others. This is the case with its “Google Street View” service, an option derived from Google Maps and Google Earth. The Street View allows you to obtain 360 degrees images of locations...

Adobe Air showcase ̵...

I may have been somewhat silent recently, but it was vacation time for everyone, and it doesn’t mean I wasn’t still looking around for new applications. A friend of mine spoke to me about this site and I went to take a look. It turns out that it is a very interesting...

Download and Convert vid...

Whenever you need to convert units to something else, you probably just Google a converter and run the first one you find. That’s what I do. But last time I did that, I came across Youconvertit.com. The difference with this particular site is that you can use it as a one-stop...

Chicks please! – C...

I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before and it’s no secret that I like beautiful girls. Actually, most guys do, they just don’t show it as openly. My girlfriend’s hot.. really hot… but my guy-nature can’t help but notice when a nice girl...

Animoto.com – Crea...

I came across Animoto.com a little while back but did not have time to give it a try. Looking back in my bookmarks of sites to re-visit, I decided to give it a shot to see just what it would create with my pictures and music. Here’s what I got with some of my pictures of...

Google 411 available in ...

Google’s popular free 411 service GOOG-411 (1-800-4664-411) is now available in Canada. The toll-free directory service that uses Google results to give people phone numbers and addresses of local businesses launched in the States back in April of last year. Since then it’s...

Last day at the office f...

Microsoft’s most famous Founder, Bill Gates, will be stepping down from his duties on Friday, June 27th 2008. Bill Gates was a Harvard University dropout. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his friend Paul Allen and took the world by storm with his software we all know. ...

Firefox 3 Download Day &...

The team that created Firefox 3 were so sure that the community was impatient to download their newest browser, that they asked Guiness to measure their downloads and set a new world record. So they went ahead and declared June 17th as Download Day. The period is actually from...

Flairbuilder.com to buil...

Flairbuilder.com is one of those web-based applications that make you wonder why people create just about anything online. It is actually a pretty neat idea, but I’m not too sure about its real-life applications, aside from the proof that it can be done. Flairbuilder is basically...