TouchGraph touches me the right way

Tired of Google only pinging back results to your keyword in the form of a list? Well fret no more as TouchGraph will answer your prayers of data worshiping. Instead of scavenging through the extended Goooooooogle list that you get when searching for Paris Hilton, TouchGraph throws it all together at once. If the name hasn’t given it away, the results are displayed much like a graph or web that links together similar data.

It seems terribly messy and marvelous all at the same time. The advantage to TouchGraph besides its skewered approach to assembling your data is that it enables you to “discover clusters and interrelations within your data, and zoom in on whatever catches your interest.” Going even further for your data fix, TouchGraph provides filter to sniff out less than appealing information allowing you to home in on what you need. Another feature gives you the option to create reports by exporting your TouchGraph and displaying it on Excel.

Works with GOOGLE and also with AMAZON.

Don’t get OWNED by Caffeine!

Are you frequenting the local Starbucks or 7-11 more and more often for that caffeine fix? Chances are that the long hours getting owned blogging have made you groggy and you need a pick me up. Well to help you out, Energy Fiend has taken it upon themselves to compile a list of the most popular caffeinated drinks. The list not only enables the you to tally up your caffeine intake with a simple button push but it consequently sheds some light on the addictive caffeinated state that you might be facing all inside a great pop-up window. So before you get owned by your next 72 hour WOW blog fest please be sure to check out the important statistics that Energy Fiend has provided.

Make the Jump before you Crash!

Twitter answers the question that no one cares to know

Maybe I don’t get it or maybe it’s just that I don’t have any friends, but either way twitter isn’t that appealing to me. Personally I can’t really stand the mini-feed on facebook because I don’t really care what my friends are doing all times of the day, although if I did I wouldn’t want their or my business on blast for the world to know. That however is exactly the premise on which twitter works. Twitter is a simple operation in that it is another community of strangers posing as friends answering the god awful question of “what are you doing?” You can tell these people what your doing via SMS, IM or right through Twitter, yay.

Honestly has it come to this, don’t get me wrong I praise how the web has progressed over the years but if you need to know what someone is doing every second of the day then why not just contact them directly. I don’t want to sound old fashioned but a SMS or phone call will do wonders and is more personal with no middle man.

Why are we trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist? Twitter answers the question that has already been answered through various social networks already like facebook, myspace, or hi5. In the end I congratulate Twitter on its successful launch and its increasing popularity because it is hard to get noticed among the thousands of web2.0 start ups but I just have to ask; Why is it that we need something else even more simplistic to accomplish what has already been mastered? Is the power of the Internet lost on you? Why do you take our intelligence granted? Will your M.O. ever incorporate more than a copied schematic playing off the hype of myspace? We will see and if you want to know what I’m doing… well you wont.

Empower your Browser

The next innovative step to Getting Things Done without actually putting forth the effort has arrived, with bookmarklets. Its fairly self explanatory in that the bookmarklet is stored in your browser the same way that you would bookmark a page. The only difference between the two is that while a bookmark takes you to your particular favorite page; the bookmarklet enables you to preform an action right from your browser that before would only be possible by going to your favorite page.

Strange concept I know, but here is an example:

Say you have a Google bookmarklet, click on it and instead of streamlining straight to the Google home page a small window pops up and will allow you to enter your search topics.

Try for yourself… go to WorldTimZone and pick a bookmarklet. Drag one of the bookmarklets up to your bookmark panel and then go back in, click and see what happens. (There is a Goolge bookmarklet under “Search Engines“)

With the right Bookmarklet you can also:

-Modify the way you view someone’s page

-Extract data from a page

-Search more quickly, and in different ways than with a traditional search engine

-Navigate in new ways