Online Observations

Do you want to know everyone’s secrets?

Here’s one of the best blog ideas ever. Its called Post Secret. Its a blog which lets you write your secrets on a postcard and send to the author who promptly posts them on the blog. The author here is a guy called Frank Warren. He started this site in 2005, and has received more than 200 million visitors since then. Every Sunday, the blog is updated with 20 secrets. To me its interesting because you get a window into humanity. Here are some choice ones from last Sunday:

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Teach people how to use Google

If you are one of those people who get asked a lot of questions by colleagues, friends, and family, and the answer usually composes of the first link that you got after you googled their question, here’s the best thing for you.

It’s called, let me Google that for you.

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The first ever game on YouTube

Someone went on hyperdrive in creativity (I think that is the right word for this) and used the feature of embedding links in YouTube videos to make a game on YouTube. This game is played by watching and interacting with the video.

Here’s the video below:

Some people have all the time in the world

Every time I something like what I am about to show you, I feel jealous. I wish I had the time, energy, money, inclination, courage, or whatever it takes to do something like this. Take a look at the video below.

His name is Matt and it took him 14 months to do this and it took him to more than 42 countries. Watch it completely, it is way too cool not to be seen completely.

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There is always something interesting happening on the Internet

Of all the blogs I read from time to time, the One Man’s Blog is one of them. This is a blog by John who happens to be the Chief Marketing Officer of Layered Technologies (which actually is the sponsor for Woopra).

Anyway, back to the story. Till recently, John’s blog had a very unique URL: http://onemansblog.com/. That is till recently. A couple of months ago, another blog was launched by another man called (you guessed it): Another Man’s Blog. The Author of this blog has one purpose only: to provide One Man a life of living hell.

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The Japanese Haiku has a challenger

CopyBlogger issued a challenge to the world. Write a piece of literature which is exactly 140 character, not more not less. Why 140? Because this was a Twitter Writing contest. And a lot of people took the challenge. Winners got iPods and a whole lot more. The winning entries are below:

First Place:

“Time travel works!” the note read. “However you can only travel to the past and one-way.” I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill.

Second Place:

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Another twisted Url Shortening Service

Earlier I had talked about a Url shortening service for NSFW sites (visit: Url Shortening Service with a twist). Well I came across another one and had to share it.

This one is called Zombie Url. Any Url’s that you shorten with this service get zombified. Great thing to do to have some fun with friends. For example, here’s what this site looks like after being zombified by this service:

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