The social network site I’m In Like With You has a new shirt up for sale that we think is pretty cute. The shirt’s concept was created by the site’s owner during the time he lived in Korea. The shirt comes only in pink and proudly boasts “I Eat Puppies”. This shirt is a must have for any social networking geek. Internet celebrity iJustine has been known to wear this shirt from time to time. You can purchase the “I Eat Puppies” shirt from the I’m In Like With You Store.

A helicopter is standing on a landing pad that can move (like a giant turntable). This turntable has a control system that tracks the helicopter’s blade speed and matches the speed of the turntable to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction).

Will the helicopter be able to take off?

Will it take off - part 1

For any of you who have been following the colorwars on twitter, zefrank has asked for suggestions on a new challenge. Here is my idea for the next colorwars challenge:

My idea is basically around the idea of playing Capture the Flag. I was trying to think of something that could best involved the team as a whole and allow the team to work together towards an ultimate goal. Capture the Flag will require a lot of strategy and organization to really get anything accomplished.

Here is a suggested way Capture the Flag could be played:
1. Each team needs to create a flag of a certain size and post it to the colorwars website for reference.
2. Each team needs to select one person to lead the team and to hide the flag somewhere publicly on the internet in a blog, forum, newsgroup, etc (hopefully this can be done easily). The image must be referenced by a webpage and can not be a hidden image on a website.
3. The team leader will need to report the location of the flag back to the colorwars website.
4. The flag will need to be validated by the organizers of colorwars.
5. Teams will search the internet for opposing teams flags and when it is found, post the link to the colorwars website which will verify if the link is a flag.
6. Capturing an opposing team’s flag will take the team out of the competition.
7. Last team with a flag still standing wins!

On a side note, hiding the flag on the internet as a whole might take a long time to find the flag, however, enforcing the flag to be placed on one of a 1000 or so suggested websites might speed the process up.

Go OrangeTeam!

Kristy from craftster has posted this wonderful wonder woman jumper. Also included on the site is a small tutorial on how to make it. Good work Kristy!

Lifehacker has an interesting contest for the coolest cubical. Apparently the winner gets a $500 amazon gift certificate. For anyone who works in cubicals, this is an interesting read.

I am clueless as to the purpose of this site. If anyone can help me understand its purpose, I would be very appreciative!

http://internetisseriousbusiness.com/

THANKS!

P.S. This is a “Rick Roll”

Twitter is a microblog and social network that is quickly changing the world by enabling people to communicate to the internet using any cellphone. Twitter is a very convenient and a simple way to send a message out to the world without a computer present.

Unfortunately, after a short time on Twitter, you can find it to be extremely annoying. To deal with this I have created 10 Twitter tips that can fix your love romance with Twitter. Following these tips can make your life and everyone else’s life with Twitter better. A little compromise isn’t so bad!

Following these 10 Twitter tips will help you: Keep your followers, Keep your sanity, Detach yourself from the web, and Save your life!

The Tips:

1. Setup Twitter to use your cellphone. This allows you to bring Twitter with you wherever you may be and makes Twitter handy.

2. Use Twitter as it was intended to be used. Send messages pertaining to the theme “What are you doing?”

3. Follow as many people as you want, but only mark the people to be notified of new tweets if you actually want to receive tweets from them on your cellphone. Allowing tweets to your cellphone from everyone in the world will eventually drive you crazy.

4. Use a program like twirl or twitterific when you are at a computer to receive tweets that you do not want to send to your cell phone.

5. Use direct messages (the ‘d username’ command) when replying to another user’s tweet directly.

6. If you absolutely must reply to someone’s tweet publicly, make sure to start the tweet with an ‘@username’. This will allow Twitter to filter out tweets if they are not relevant to user receiving it.

7. Setup your Twitter account to only send you tweets for the “@ replies to the people you are following”. This will filter out any tweets that do not belong to you. You can find this on the Twitter Website under Settings -> Notices.

8. Keep the number of tweets to under 3 a day.

9. Make your tweets matter! Only post what you feel others would be interested in reading.

10. Use a URL shorting website such as tinyurl, rurl, urltea, urlthat, or snurl to shorten the length of a URL when posting a link to another website. This will allow the URL to fit into the 140 character tweet limit and make it easier for those using a cell phone without a web browser to type the url into a computer.

Yossi Vardi gives a speech at TED to Help fight local warming. It all starts with you!

For those late nights away from the one you love….

The social networking site ImInLikeWithYou has released their version of tetris called Blockles a few days before Christmas 2007 as an early christmas present to the world. The fast-paced multiplayer game is a great addition to the ImInLikeWithYou website, who’s goal is to create a social networking site that fosters making friends by playing games and interacting with other users.

I would keep my eye on ImInLikeWithYou. Their website has definitely raised the bar for social networking sites from here on out.

Note: Close any open applications you have running before entering the ImInLikeWithYou website. The website pushes flash technology to the limits and is extremely resource intensive. You will find the site locking up on you if you do not. It locked on me and I have a MacBook with 1GB Memory and 2GHz Core 2 Duo.