A few weeks back there was a discussion in a Linked In group for e-marketers in which the initiator complained about people who start topics ostensibly to have a substantive discussion, but it’s actually an attempt to promote their services – usually consulting of some kind or another. Anyone who’s spent any time in Linked [...]
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4,000 hours of online foreign language instruction… free!
It almost seems too good to be true, but from what I’ve seen so far, this web site delivers on exactly what it promises. LiveMocha, which bills itself as a “social language learning” site, offers the ability to learn foreign languages either in conjunction with someone you’ve met on the site or by yourself. Best [...]
Are you dead? Never fear, the Web can inform your loved ones for you
Now the Web can help you reach out to family and friends from beyond the grave.
Once convinced that you’ve moved on, Deathswitch.com and Slightlymorbid.com will send messages you prepare in advance to anyone you specify. The threshold of proof that you’re in the hereafter is rather low, so these services seem vulnerable to manipulation or accidental error. [...]
How nerds can hook up with fellow nerds
I’ve discovered social outcast networking. Stumbled across a site that helps individuals of the nerdy persuasion find groups of people of similar bent anywhere around the world and arrange dinner meetings, during which they can discuss the political and religious aspects of Battlestar Galactica, proper conjugation of nouns in Klingon, or whether the ending was [...]
Get 2 Human: How to sneak past automated phone answering services
The get2human web site has helpful instructions for how to quickly get through to a human being when you’re calling certain companies’ customer service lines. It lists hundreds of companies and shows what keys to hit on your phone, without waiting to listen to the droning messages, to reach a human from that company. Examples: Keep hitting ‘0′; Say ‘Agent’ [...]
Catalog Choice helps you stop the junk mail insanity
If a glossy paper publication full of photos of merchandise and instructions on how to order arrives in your mail box, and you wanted it to arrive, it is called a catalog. If you didn’t want it to arrive, it is called junk mail.
This free service lets you opt out of receiving any mailed catalog that’s [...]
Make your web site place a phone call
Need your Web site to place a phone call to you or someone else when a certain event occurs? VoiceShot is a service that does exactly that. You can specify the message and the phone number and the service will call and speak that message with an automated voice.
Try it out, there’s a free demo. [...]