Embraced Blogs: Dan

After finding the awesomeness that is Dogster.com (Basically, Myspace for dogs) I was joking about other social networks that need to be made. My mom suggested bloging about it, so here I am.

• Lidster - A social network for every kind of Lid: Rubbermaid, Trash Cans….any lid you can think of.
• CanCozyspace - A place where can cozies can hang out, blog and have 76 youtube videos playing at once.
• Flipbookeo - A site to post your hand drawn flip books of skate boards and monster trucks nailing wicked jumps, in gif format of course.

Got any others? Post um in the comments.

From digg.com

Yes. It is really very, very free. There’s no prepayment, no minimum use, no subscription, no monthly fee, no nothing. You just download and install Skype and then you start calling. Both the caller and the number called must be in either the US or Canada. There are no strings attached.

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One downside of the internet is that you can hear about things so far in advance that the anticipation can become just downright annoyance.

Take the Splashpad for instance, which allows you to charge your low voltage devices like phones, cameras and PDAs wirelessly. I heard about this beast over a year ago and I’m painfully reminded that it hasn’t released every time the charger on my phone stops working (I’m on my third charger now.

Or how about Allpeers, the forth-coming extension that adds BitTorrent compatability to Firefox (Opera has had this for sometime now, built in).

The internet sure has some really cool things going for it: Up to the minute news, huge sprawling communities for any subject you can think of, a wealth of information that rivals the library of Alexandria. But of these there is one thing that rises above the rest. Online begging. That’s right, I can now panhandle without even leaving my comfy chair. So rejoice with me, and donate a buck or two to help me get Brain Age. It’ll make me smarter so I won’t have to beg anymore.

You can click here to donate or use the little linky in the sidebar.

Jason Kottke joined The Deck today, a indie ad network that supports other heavy hitters such as Waxy.org and 37Signals. Pretty cool to see these guys playing by their own rules.

Speaking of 37Signals, I’m planning on abandoning WordPress and redoing this blog in web wunderkind Ruby On Rails (No hard feelings WP).

Matt Haughy linked this up this morning and it is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a good long time.