Xobni Connects You To Your Contacts
Just wanted to add a quick note about the Xobni’s newest upgrades, which includes most of our favorite social connectivity site, Facebook! Linkedin was already in the fold, which is great to make connections on a business level but now Xobni is truly reaching into the “social” aspect of online media and direct connecting your contacts to their Facebook profile. I’m thinking this is what Bill Gates envisioned when he said, “Xobni is the next generation of social networking.” We are no longer hiding behind email, as faceless typist and I personally love the window peek into my correspondent’s “face”! We are, after all, a society of voyeurs.
I am looking forward to Xobni connecting with even more of my favorite sites. Who knows, maybe one day Xobni will come built into Outlook?
KallOut’s Twitter Search Tool
KallOut is one of my favorite tools these days and I am very impressed with the moves they’ve made to give the people what they want. KallOut is a desktop search tool that has a varied menu of search options, which can be “Kall(ed)Out” by selecting text from within your desktop programs, (Outlook, Word, etc…). It started out with the usual suspects, Google, Yahoo, and Live but has now branched out and included our good friend Twitter. Here is a step by step process of running a Twitter Search directly from your desktop! If you’re not using KallOut I greatly recommend this tool for various reasons, but currently, this is at the top of my list.
From within an email to a friend, using Outlook, I selected the text “BlogHer” and under the search options, chose Twitter Search.
The KallOut box then pops up and I clicked on Search All Tweets.
Tah-Dah! You’ve got the tweets about BlogHer
A Day For AIDS
I know that most will never see what AIDS can do to a person, how sick and debilitated one can become from the suffering caused by this disease…I have. Even at the young age in which I encountered myself watching the havoc tear apart a life that I cherished, I felt the sad feeling of helplessness. At that time AIDS was not as prevalent and treatment was scarce and experimental, eventually her only way to end suffering was suicide. This experience left a need for me to be a constant voice for the cause. I have become one of many that is whispering, speaking, pushing and shouting, when need be, just to get the message out that the need for every one of us to intervene, in any small way we can, is vast. We cannot standby and let the poor, underprivileged and geographically unfortunate suffer. We should all find a role of responsibility in the line of global support to facilitate treatment and better living for those that we will never meet. There are approximately 301 million people in the US, if we all just gave $1, just one dollar to support the cause globally, we could change people’s lives, ease suffering and help find a cure for this epidemic. It’s a small gesture that could make an enormous impact on the world.I especially feel for the orphaned Children of Africa, the children that may not even have the fortune of an orphanage, they live alone at very young ages, siblings caring for each other. Most are unable find means to acquire HIV testing, causing the spread to continue weaving it’s deadly web. It is a sad state and one that we could never understand. Imagine an 8 and 10 year old living alone here? Yet through such pain and loss I’ve read and seen so many inspiring stories of ways that they find to help each other, truly amazing spirits and I have a goal to head to Africa, be a physical servant there but for now, I do it here and ask for everyone to I know to join me.
“Eight out of every 10 children in the world whose parents have died of AIDS live in sub-Saharan Africa. During the last decade, the proportion of children who are orphaned as a result of AIDS rose from 3.5% to 32% and will continue to increase exponentially as the disease spreads unchecked. As a result, the disease is in effect making orphans of a whole generation of children, jeopardizing their health, their rights, their well-being and sometimes their very survival, not to mention the overall development prospects of their countries.”
It’s December now and as the Holiday Rush is upon us, I know that I can do without another lotion set, gift card or chocolate basket, my joy would come from knowing someone is feeling relief, care and love from someone they will never know. This is the legacy we have an opportunity to leave behind.
One Day For AIDS is a great organization that has 3 options for directing 100% of your donation. I hope that if you can, you will make a difference in someone’s life.
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My Obsession With Poe
I’ve had this curious obsession with Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Well, I’ve been a poetry fan since the age of 12 when I found that the lyrics could flow in your head like music dancing through your mind. And one day, I found Poe and everything made sense. He used his his pen with such knife-like precision, that to this day cuts into me. I often thought, if I could only be like Poe, if I could only take a walk in his mind. That was when I thought I would one day find myself a great writer, never thought popular or well-known but great. I even named my daughter after one of his well known poems.I woke early this morning, that’s usual even for a Saturday unfortunately, and immediately turned on the laptop to see what I missed in the couple of hours I slumbered but as I stood at the espresso machine waiting for my fuel, my antique poem books peculiarly caught my eye and I pulled them off the shelf. I can’t tell you how thrilled I am that I did! It’s bringing peace into my life to sit here drinking coffee and reading my first crush’s writings. These antiques are so old I feel guilty every time I turn the pages but there is something about the old books that draws me and and keeps me stimulated. It’s good to read a book every now and then, those of us that live online are losing touch with this, well, at least I am.Though, if Poe had lived in this day, I’m sure he’s have been a blogger!
This one in particular is sticking to me today. It truly dances. I’m crushed
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To One in Paradise
Edgar Allan Poe
Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries,
“On! on!”- but o’er the Past
(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
Mute, motionless, aghast!
For, alas! alas! me
The light of Life is o’er!
“No more- no more- no more-”
(Such language holds the solemn sea
To the sands upon the shore)
Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
Or the stricken eagle soar!
And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy grey eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams-
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.
Citysearch Integrates Facebook Connect and Enters Hyperlocal Review Race
Citysearch Integrates Facebook Connect and Enters Hyperlocal Review RacePosted using ShareThis
It’s about time!! That’s all I can think. CitySearch is my company’s, (Ask.com) sister via our parent IAC and though I am a loyal promoter of our products/sites, I’ve had a hard time using CitySearch and remained an ofter user of Yelp.com, This has given me a little bit of guilt, given that it’s an unavoidable relationship I share with them, walking through our IAC West Hollywood Corporate building.
I have to hand it them, this Facebook Connect…GENIUS! I, like most of us in the industry, am on Facebook consistently often. Now I will have to give this “connect” relationship a true dig. I couldn’t think of a smarter a thing for the CitySearch team to put into our tool boxes. Looking forward to full integration so I can use regularly.
