I’ve held an account with Socialthing.com for a while now, thought I would take you on the inside tour of the site, since they’re still in beta.  So check out the vid and if you want an invite to it, drop me a comment in this post. I currently have 12 invites. First come first serve.

Lets take a walk through of GeoBeats.com. We’re starting to do video reviews of various sites and games online. If you have something you’d like us to review let us know.

So as we run around the interweb looking for vast amounts of information, be it the next version of lightsabre kid or something actually worthwhile like news, we need to find good sources for consistent information. I just happened upon Knewsroom, don’t even know how I ended up there, but I’m glad I did.

Right away the design of the site itself is easy to navigate with a clear understanding of what you are here for. They divided up the news into the most common sections for each navigation. The real beauty of Knewsroom comes when you register for an account. After registering they give you what they dub “Watts” to invest into various topics. Watts work like diggs or stumbles, the more that are invested the higher it rises in the ranking and eventually to the front page. Now if a story goes to the front page and you have invested Watts into it, you get paid your share of Watts back AND ad revenue. Yes real money. Who doesn’t want to get paid to look at the things they like?

The concept is very new to me and overall the setup Knewsroom has going for it is well set. By proposing topics and submitting stories you secure yourself a better chance at earning more dollars. They make it pretty simple to submit storys. Plus you participate in a good social community. Is this the next Digg style site? Not really, this is definitely much smaller right now. Also I haven’t seen many comments on the submitted stories, so that leads me to believe its not an overly active community at least for the time being. With the added incentive to submit stories and earn some cash, I could see this site flourishing into something bigger.

Social sites are the IN thing right now on the net. I don’t care who you are. If you are Billy the super gamer or Grandma looking to find some old friends before they die, you use a social site or two. Now since I find myself doing more and more marketing these days, I have accounts at practically everything new coming out of the social woodwork. There is one I find that I have used more than any other out there and thats Last.fm.

For those of you who haven’t used the internets for a while, Last.fm is a social music website where you can “scrobble” your recently listened to tracks to your Last.fm account. Last.fm then can show you other music you may like and even match you up with people with similar tastes in music.

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Twitter is the new web phenomenon and it’s sweeping across the web like a giant crop duster filled with deadly pesticides.

Twitter is a glorified blog/instant messenger, that allows you to keep track of every piece of your friends/enemies day. It’s basically installing a GPS tracking device on a host specimen and allowing them to come up with “clever” tidbits about where they are and what they are doing in under 140 characters. You can update your Twitter page by: mobile phone, stupid program you download, or visiting the stupid site. A typical Twitter Users day is much like the following. Read More »

Vixy.net is a seriously handy resource for the Youtube/Dailymotion/etc junkie. I know I probably hit YouTube at least once a day. As of today between the two accounts I have on there, I have over 300 favorite videos that I tend to go back and rerun on occasion. Now how nice would it be when I am on the road to just grab these clips and download them in the MP4 format for my iPod? Freakin awesome!

Thats where Vixy.net comes in. They will grab the video straight from the Youtube URL, convert it to the format of your choosing, and have it ready for you to download. The site is extremely straight forward and easy to use. You should quit using the internet now if you dont understand it. Now I must mention I have had problems getting some FLV’s converted. It doesnt always get the video from the url correctly, this only happened with VEOH for me. So bookmark it, use it, and abuse it!