There are not one, but two bacon apps for iPhone, and I reviewed them for iSmashPhone.
Then I ranted over at Burbia about the Snuggie for dogs. I kid you not. They have made a Snuggie for dogs. There is no hope for this world.
Oh, and Curb Your Enthusiasm has a return date, and the entire cast of Seinfeld’s along for the ride; read about it on TV Tyrant.
Welcome to my fifth week of listing my Twitter Follow Friday recommendations here on my blog.
I like it because it doesn’t clutter up the Twitter stream too much and I get to explain why I think you should follow them. I do five recs a week, and have plenty of folks still to get to. I’m fortunate to know some very cool people.
That said, I’m always looking for more, interesting people to add on Twitter, so please recommend at least one person in the comments. Would love to hear who you think is worth my time to follow.
So here’s this week’s #FollowFriday recs:
@Gamebittk: I would be highly remiss if I did not recommend Mike. I’ve known him for quite some time on Digg and this week, he came up with a brilliant solution to the whole Diggbar madness (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, thank your lucky stars, or read this post). He came up with ShareTool, yes, another URL shortener. But not only does it allow for tweeting and all sorts of sharing, it enables Digg users to send their URLs with a Digg button at the top for their Digg friends, but directly to the content of the article for their non-Digg friends. Can’t we just all get along? By the way, if you want a good laugh, put the ShareTool URL into ShareTool and share it. Really. Do it.
@DianaCostello: Diana harkens back to my old life (a whopping seven months ago) as a professional journalist. I was a newspaper editor, and Diana was one of my reporters. She was always trying to find new ways to get people to come to the website by – gasp! – giving them something they couldn’t get anywhere else. She works her butt off, has a wicked sense of humor and actually cares about the quality of what she does. She also has an incredibly eclectic taste in music, maybe even rivaling that of @Surferess. OK, not quite, but she comes close.
@Primatage: Matt Rogers is a relatively new friend. He’s funny, sharp and really obnoxious. Exactly what I look for in a friend. He shares good links, writes an interesting blog and has a nice eye for graphic design. Check him out.
@PinkPackRat: Roberta is a fellow New Jersey-dweller and, despite the fact that she likes pink, is very cool. She has a fun soapbox blog that touches on subjects ranging to the fact that chubby people like me live longer to the local farm stand that runs on the honor system. OK, you may have guessed from that last part that she doesn’t live anywhere near Newark. She lives in the rural part of Jersey. (Hey, it’s not call the Garden State for no reason.)
@StuartFoster: Stu’s one of my old-timey Digg friends, too. He has a social media blog and has been my sometime collaborator on blog posts there (our most famous was the Beards + Social Media = Win post). He’s a hard worker and shares lots of good links on Twitter.
So that’s my five recommendations for #FollowFriday this week. Who do you recommend? Please tell me in the comments.
Today was cybercrime day for me on Hot Hardware. I wrote two articles:
• Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the trust people have on social networking sites.
• Macs are becoming more vulnerable to hackers. Oh, and viruses.
For iMommyTalk this week, I talked about how I didn’t have a huge party for Markus’ third birthday and he was happy as a clam. Even though there were no ponies.
USB and Bluetooth interfaces are the most popular for computers and phones, respectively. Read about a survey on the subject at HotHardware.com.
MySpace wants to reinvent itself as an entertainment portal – specifically, focusing on online gaming. Read about it on Hot Hardware.
The Lost panel at Comic Con provided lots of cool tidbits about the final season, so I round ‘em up on TV Tyrant with my commentary.
Gwen Ratkeeper reports in from Comic Con, and I report on her report, on TV Tyrant.
For those of you new to this blog, this is my fourth week of listing my Twitter Follow Friday recommendations this way.
I like it because it doesn’t clutter up the Twitter stream too much and I get to explain why I think you should follow them. I do five recs a week, and have plenty of folks still to get to. I’m fortunate to know some very cool people.
That said, I’m always looking for more, interesting people to add on Twitter, so please recommend at least one person in the comments. Would love to hear who you think is worth my time to follow.
I’m still catching up on some of my oldest social media friends:
@LouieBaur & @LouieBaurDigg — Louie was my first Digg friend and thus one of my very first “online” friends. We’ve spoken on the phone many times and he cracks me up. We were coming up in Digg about the same time, even though he has damn near twice as many front page submissions than I do (that means he’s better at it than I am). He’s so popular he has to have two Twitter accounts, one specifically for Digg.
@Deathwish808 — Steve and I also go back a long way. I call Steve an ass, but it’s only because I mean it. I kid, I kid! Seriously, he’s someone you want to have in your corner. He’s loyal and hard-working and funny as heck, plus a good dad to boot.
@Emily_at_Asylum — Emily’s almost like a guy, and I mean that in a good way. She likes boob jokes and is usually saying or doing something inappropriate. I’ve actually met her in person, even, and she’s a sweetheart. I always enjoy seeing what she’s gonna come up with next.
@w0lfh0und — Matt Barnes is a fascinating person. He’s been homeless and has a wonderful blog that raises awareness of the plight of people who find themselves in that situation, for a variety of reasons. It’s well-written and fascinating. And Matt’s just a stand-up guy who I’m proud to call a friend.
@socialpyramid — Brian Clark Howard is one helluva writer and editor and an even nicer friend and Digger. He’s also another online friend I’ve actually met in person, because he has the good sense to live in the NYC metro area. He’s always got your back and is always tweeting about cool environmental-related stuff.
That’s it for this week. Again, please let me know in the comments whom you think I should be following.
Seems American workplaces lose 1.5 percent of employee productivity due to Facebook. Because if you take away Facebook, they’re not going to find any other way to waste time, right? Wrote about the survey for Hot Hardware.