the rundown

October 10, 2011 at 4:25 pm

  The Rundown: QR-Codes Scan me! By now you’ve seen a few of these strange little box looking things on various items such as groceries, movie advertisements, websites, t-shirts, etc. They’re called Quick Response Codes or simply QR-Codes for short. QR-Codes were originally created by…

September 16, 2011 at 3:01 am

By: Jason Roberts How influential are you on the internet? That is the question Klout is trying to answer. I joined Klout when I was invited to their Beta after discovering their site through a start up list blog I read. I wasn’t quite sure what to make…

September 11, 2011 at 3:04 am

By: Jason Roberts At 8:49 a.m. on a Sept. 11, 2001, CNN got the first report of a plane hitting one of the World Trade Center towers. - http://goo.gl/tGcF7 On the morning of September 11, 2001 I was at my father’s house seeing my grandparents off as…

September 6, 2011 at 3:03 am

By: Jason Roberts  April 1, 2004 marked the end of email dominance for AOL and Yahoo. That is the date when Gmail was launched as an invitation-only Beta. Like many others I had a Yahoo and Hotmail email account at the time and I was quite…

September 1, 2011 at 2:52 am

By: Jason Roberts The tag line below for The Official Site of Colorado is so true…  My family’s first experience with Colorado took place back in July of 2008 when we flew into DEN from BNA on Southwest. At DEN we picked up our Enterprise rentalNissan Xterra and drove five hours to Lake City,…

August 22, 2011 at 2:53 am

By: Jason Roberts This past Friday my daughter started Kindergarten at her new elementary school right down the street from our home. Yesterday she turned five years old and she’s been attending Montessori since she was two and a half years old. When my wife and…

August 1, 2011 at 2:28 am

By: Jason Roberts Twitter has revolutionized the way and speed in which we obtain news and information about people we know as well as notable figures in different fields such as sports, movies, television, technology, and world government just to name a few. It’s totally…

July 25, 2011 at 2:38 am

By: Jason Roberts Not long ago critics were giving Google fits about the social media flops of Google Buzz and Google Wave. I purchased my first desktop in February of 2002 and ever since I’ve been been a Google user. I remember grabbing a Gmail invite off ebay back…

July 21, 2011 at 2:46 am

We all enjoy various forms of media such as music, movies, television shows, books, movie stars, and video games. One night while reading my Twitter timeline I ran across a tweet that included a link to a site that I’d never seen before, of course…