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.

Google is well-known for their long drawn-out “Beta” applications that seem to take years for the applications to finally be considered stable applications. It seems a trend has slowly been making it’s way to all of the new Web 2.0 websites out there who also want to call themselves “Beta”. The irony is that the term “Beta” is slowly transforming itself in the mind of internet users from a term that once stood for “not good enough” to a mark of quality.

2008 is definitely the year for Web 2.0 beta. Browsing around the internet this year makes one feel the internet is ramping up for its next big release. The amount of sites that proudly proclaim themselves as “Beta” seem to be skyrocketing.

Will this trend end or will all sites from now on be considered “Beta” indefinitely? I guess we will just have to wait and find out. For now, If your interested in tracking all of the beta websites out there, there is the Museum of Modern Betas. They even have a top 100 list if you’re interested in seeing the most popular “Beta” websites.

For those of us with a short attention span behold: The Steve Jobs 90 Minute Keynote (in 60 Seconds)

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.

A plane is standing on a runway that can move (like a giant conveyor
belt). This conveyor has a control system that tracks the plane’s
speed and tunes the speed of the conveyor to be exactly the same (but
in the opposite direction).

Will the plane be able to take off?
Will it take off - part 2

So, I finally jumped into the wonderful world of blogging. Blogging is something I have been wanting to do for a while now, however, I was unable to because of my hosting provider. I am happy to say I have found a new hosting provider, Linode, and I am in LOVE with them. Linode specializes in linux Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and are reasonably priced. For those of you who are unfamiliar with a VPS, it is basically a really fast server that several virtual machines share time on. Most collocated servers are underutilized and VPS take advantage of this by sharing one server with several people. This reduces the total cost of having your own server tremendously. You can also do anything you want to do on a VPS that you would on a collocated system.

A VPS will scale to your needs. I started with Linode’s bottom line package called ‘Linode 360′ for $19.95 / Month. If I find I need more space, it is really easy to increase my VPS’s resources, such as Memory and Disk Space, to what I need from within Linode’s control panel. I imagine the upgrade will only take a couple of minutes to setup, instead of hours if this were a collocated server.

The ‘Linode 360′ Package Includes:
* 350 MB Memory
* 10 GB Disk Space
* 200 GB Transfer / Month
* $19.95 / Month

Linode also gives you a control panel which lets you control how your VPS is setup and control it. You can reboot your VPS at any time, add memory, and add more disk space. This makes a VPS a very scalable solution that should be able to grow to fit any infrastructure needs in the future.

Screenshot of Linode’s Control Panel