John P.

One Mans Blog

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Read Your Favorite Blog via Skype

There is a new site, that I find to be very cool, called Anothr.com which offers the unique service of sending you Skype messages when your favorite blogs are updates.

Although its in English, this is a Chinese site and the page sometimes loads slowly (though it’s been getting better). Luckily you don’t have to deal with that very often considering that they are simply going to push notification of your favorite blog posts to you via Skype; and frankly, this is simply not a delay sensitive service. If your notification comes a few minutes late… so what?
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Internet Growth Statistics

The World Wide WebAccording to CNN, who is quoting Netcraft - the Neilson’s of the Internet world - the Web just topped the 100 million domain name marker.

Additionally, Time Magazine says that Technorati is claiming that 100,000 new blogs are created each day with over 1.3 million posts added daily.
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Everyone Loves a Little Pixsy

Pixsy.comI love to stay informed of current news and events, but sometimes using Google News to find the latest is just too damned boring for me. Luckily, Pixsy.com has the solution! This new site was just named to TIME Magazine’s Top 50 list of coolest Web sites.
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