Google Reader adds comments for sharing

This is a big deal for social web addicts. One of the first articles posted to this site was about the inadequacies of Google Reader as a sharing platform when compared to FriendFeed. Yesterday, one of FriendFeed’s advantages over Google’s sharing platform was mitigated as Google unveiled comments for shared items. Google Reader makes it easy to share stories with friends, but it hasn’t fostered...

Jinni invites for your favorite movie

Jinni is a really cool movie suggestion engine. It has developed a movie “genome” that defines certain traits in movies in much the same way Pandora does for music. I have five Jinni invites for the first five commenters who post their favorite movies. Go to...

Purchase and download old PC games on the cheap

Good Old Games is a digital download service offering PC games that, while they aren’t going to tax your new GTX 295, are some of the greatest titles of their time. Fortunately, they also won’t tax your wallet much. We’re not talking Ultima 2 or anything like that. Everything I’ve seen on the site was published in the last 15 years, and the quality of the games shows through in spite of the...

Cream of the cloud: The top premium web services

Photo by Flickr user zerega There has been much talk in the past year about cloud computing. Some like it; some don’t. Say what you will, but there are some services that can only be provided through the cloud. As a result, the concept has been around forever and will probably never leave. There are some really stellar services available that make your computing life a lot easier. Several weeks back, I posted...

chi.mp invites for the best 5 comments

Chi.mp is a service that aggregates your online identity merging your activity from Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, and others. They are also an OpenID provider which means, upon registration, you will automatically have a single login for the multitude of sites that support OpenID. I will give away a chi.mp invite to each of the 5 readers who leave the best suggestions of geeky things you’d like to learn how to...