CSS Naked Day

Three years ago, Dustin Diaz came up with the idea of promoting “clean” websites, websites that properly use xhtml and html, that have a good structure, sites that “show off their < body >.”

So he invented the CSS Free Day, that falls this year on april 9th, a day when all sites should strip off their design, optionally adding this code to the top of their page.

<h3>What happened to
the design?</h3> <p>To know
more about why
styles are disabled
on this website
visit the <a href="http://naked.dustindiaz.com"
title="Web Standards Naked
Day Host Website"> Annual
CSS Naked Day</a>
website for more
information.</p>

If you care to support this idea and wish to do so, you should register here, and your site will be displayed on naked.dustindiaz.com among more than 2000 others.

Care to invest in social media?

Well, have you got $695 to spare?

Because that’s the price of the Social Networks:Five Consumer Trends for 2009 report, which will have you rethinking your budgets in a flash. The smart people discovered that the consumer oriented marketing that social media allows is followed consequently by…the money :)

The Social Networks report analyzes key trends that online marketers should be keeping an eye on in 2009.
The growth that social networks have exhibited over the past few years shows little sign of abating. By 2013, an estimated 52% of Internet users will be regular social network visitors.
Will 2009 be the year that marketers and social networks figure out how to harness the myriad bits of information that consumers share about their likes, dislikes and purchase preferences—and turn them to a profit?

Key questions the “Social Networks” report answers:

* How many people use social network sites?
* How are the demographics and usage patterns changing?
* Will Facebook overtake MySpace?
* Where do Twitter and mobile phones fit in?
* How do consumers use social networks in the purchase process?
* And many others…

You cand DOWNLOAD the pricy report here, and if you do so, please share info on the later results of that investment :)

Tweetizen.com, create and share Twitter groups

As Twitter becomes more and more popular, lots of new tools, games, add-ons and related sites emerge to make our life easier and more fun.

The newest kid in town is Tweetizen.com, a website that allows you to create groups for your followees, and that’s not it. You can embed the groups with a widget that can be easily added to your website.

Yes, yes, keep them Twitter related developments coming, but meanwhile don’t forget what Twitter shouldn’t be. You can see that here :)

Twitter security breach

An adult webcam site might be sending tweets from your account.

It seems Twitter is confrunted with another major security break: a program that hacks into accounts and sends out a message like that:

“hey! 23/Female. Come chat with me on my webcam thingy here www.chatwebcamfree.com.”

A while ago, celebrity accounts have been hacked in the same way, by compromising password, a tactique not quite so common for Twitter hacks but heavily used for breaking down Instant Messaging accounts.

This has not yet been proven, but it is the best time to change your Twitter password.

Image source: mashable.com

Archive20.com won the NameCheap Big Game Video Contest

Yes, it’s public. Rumors about other participants being envy are also public on Twitter :-).

Couple of weeks ago, I have done 2 videos in order to win the NameCheap Big Game Video Contest and guess what! One of them made me a winner and in few days, I’ll be a proud owner of a Creative Vado HD camera.

Being a winner participating for the 1st time in my life in a video competition, make me feel like I won one of Emmys or Oscars :-). Ok, ok, ok, I’ll stop now. I don’t need more twitter envy over my head.

Let’s see the winning footage:

Live Air Traffic

Believe it or not, there is an website that shows us in real time the air traffic. Here is a video presenting the global air traffic (simulation over 24 hours). The airplanes are all those yellow points on the map.

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The NameCheap commercial contest (Part 2)

As my previous video for the The NameCheap Big Game Video Contest was removed by Youtube at Madman Entertainment request (I was using images from Black Cat, White Cat) I decided to make another one and win that Creative Vado HD Pocket Video Cam.

It took me 1 hour of driving throug Bucharest to shoot some interesting footage for a nice commercial that will make you buy domain names! In the end, I have used 15 seconds from a 2 months old movie with my cat, Grigore, to render another clip for NameCheap. :-)

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Bill Gates releases mosquitoes at tech conference

Bill Gates, the billionaire founder of Microsoft and a renowned philanthropist, let loose a swarm of mosquitoes at a technology conference in California to highlight the dangers of malaria.

‘Malaria is spread by mosquitoes,’ the Microsoft founder yelled at a well-heeled crowd at a technology conference in California.

’I brought some,’ he added. ‘Here, I’ll let them roam around – there is no reason only poor people should be infected.’

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