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Facebook, nostalgia vs. gossip?

I’ve been catching up with old mates all these days thanks to Facebook. Joined the network about a month ago and ever since, I’ve found a bunch of those high-school mates I haven’t seen for ages. Some of them are married, others about to get married, some have been and lived in places where I’ve been without knowing each other, which is kinda funny and sad because we never met. I’m not quite into the games, but really enjoy reading comments in certain groups. Business wise, Facebook it’s mental; the owners estimate its value in billions of dollars!!! A good friend of mine said, Facebook is successful just because people like gossip, but on the contrary, I reckon it is quite popular because people are so nostalgic. Long life to Facebook!

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Video Downloader

Thanks to the recent Top Gear posts I came to know how to download these stream videos into one’s computer. One of the drawbacks is this VideoDownloader only works with Mozilla Firefox as it is an add-on for the browser; the other thing is you have to download the Flash video player to reproduce the videos.

It has been stated on their website that you can download videos from the following sites:
Angry Alien, Blip.tv, Break.com, Dailymotion, eVideoShare, Free Video Blog, Google Video, Grinvi, iFilm, Keiichi Anime Forever, Metacafe, MySpace, MySpace Video Code, Putfile, Totally Crap, vidiLife, vSocial, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Blastro, Bofunk, Bolt, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, EVTV1, FindVideos, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, Vimeo, Yikers YouTube and ZippyVideos.

About podcasts...

Am getting into the podcast trend and have found very interesting topics along whit websites and other sources of information; honestly that’s why I was dying for an iPod, I felt I was lagging behind my time by not having one of those devices. In fact a friend of mine brilliantly pointed out that if an iPod is used for the mere purpose of listening to music, it’ll be a waste of money and time. Anyway, now not only have I got the latest headlines on my pocket, articles from top universities, music (obviously), but also language courses, movie reviews and so on and so forth.

Among my favourite PodCasts, I will definitely mention BBC4’s In our time, Bill Wilson’s Wine for newbies and The Economist’s weekly report, all of which highly ranked in iTunes. The first one is focused on a wide range of historic topics and is hosted by Melvyn Bragg. The second one is about wine in general, varieties, regions, producers, etc. The last one is a review of the most recent issue of one of the most trustful financial magazines, the Economist.

Even if you do not have a mp3 player, as long as you can access the Internet from a computer with iTunes you will be able to enjoy these and other podcasts and videocasts and keep you updated of many things that are happening around.

My portfolio

This is one of the ways that helps me making ends meet, I used to do it in a more corporative-oriented way back in my native Colombia but in here is more like a hobbie. I'm not an expert in web designing and most of the time I end up following what the clients want, however I try to give them some ideas on how to improve the lay out and sometimes they agree with me.

Anyway, this is just to publicize my services... :)

Here some examples:

ColorQuiz.com

I don't believe in horoscopes and that sort of stuff, however, this is the result of picking up eight colour boxes in any particular order:

Your Desired Objective
Desires a tranquil, peaceful state of harmony offering quiet contentment and a sense of belonging.

Your Actual Problem
Needs to protect himself against his tendency to be too trusting, as he finds it is liable to be misunderstood or exploited by others. Is therefore seeking a relationship providing peaceful and understanding intimacy, and in which each knows exactly where the other stands.

Have some fun at: http://www.ColorQuiz.com/

Google Analytics

I’ve recently started to use Google Analytics and I must admit that am very impressed. If you don’t know what it is, I’ll briefly explain it below:

Google Analytics are some statistical tools that allow webmasters and marketers carry out some studies based on the amount of people who visit a website by using a wide range of options to sort the information out, such as: most visited pages, domains, companies, countries, languages, browsers, etc. What is more, it can be easily linked to Google AdWords, therefore a campaign can be effectively tracked down.

One of the most remarkable features is the fact that it is for FREE and on top of that its implementation is very straightforward, it only requires adding a couple of Javascript lines before the end of the page you want to study.

One can also select the date range on which the study is to be carried out. I almost forgot something very important, within an account one can register several websites.