Updated: January 27th, 2010
2010 is shaping up to be an exciting year of significant change. The following trends include my predictions about how tech will improve over the next twelve months.
The 10 topics below are generating buzz right now on Twitter and across the social sphere of the web. It is safe to say that these topics will continue to develop as news surrounding these topics are released during the months to come.
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What is Pingdom?
Pingdom is a web site uptime monitoring service that tracks the uptime of your website and will alert you if and when your site 
goes down. Pingdom can alert you within one minute of your site going down, in a variety of ways, such as: email, sms, and even via iPhone push notifications.
Royal Pingdom
If you were not already aware, I have had the chance to write a few blog posts lately for the pingdom blog, Royal Pingdom. Royal Pingdom is a blog about technology and geeky talk and anything web or up-time related. The posts I have written include:
And I have a cool post about useful iPhone apps in the works.
When I first signed my website up to be monitored by pingdom I made the recommendation that they integrate graphs into their iPhone app. Recently the new pingdom iPhone app was released, complete with plenty of graphs, and I was quite happy.
If you manage any websites I recommend you use pingdom to monitor them. No installation is required and the service will give you the piece of mind that comes with knowing your sites are safe and sound.
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Updated: Febuary 1st, 2010
I recently purchased a few new domains and I set them up with Google apps powered email accounts. Now I have a custom branded email address that ends in: @garinkilpatrick.com, so feel free to email me, and the message will go directly to my cell.
By following the steps in this blog post you will be able to set yourself up with yourname@yourdomain.com and access your custom google powered email account from anywhere with the Internet.
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Planet Earth, Skating Bears, and an Unbelievable Hockey Fight
This weekend I had a chance to watch the BBC documentary Planet Earth. If you don’t know about Planet Earth it is a documentary that covers all regions of the natural world: Ocean, Fresh Water, and Mountains, to name a few. These Videos capture the amazing variety of life that is exploding from every angle on this earth.
Watching Planet Earth taught me more about nature than anything else I have ever seen. I highly recommend it, and the dvd or blu-ray is sale now for 60% off from Amazon and it is well worth the money.
I was watching Youtube recently and I came across a video of Bears playing hockey. There is an ongoing debate about whether or not this video is real.
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Everyone is talking about the new feature of Twitter, lists. Yes they rock, but I like this new feature more.
The main problem with Twitter is spammers such as exhibit @Vampire12345B above. Do your part to snuff out spammers by clicking the gear button and then “Report for Spam” so that the Twitter spam team can look into it. Thanks!
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The Search Engine has proven itself to be the most useful tool on the Internet. The ability to search well online means finding the best resources. For me the ability to see a Website as I search is a serious asset. Google Preview is the best way I have to visually improve searching online. At this years TechCrunch50 I saw a demo of the soon to be released Bing visual search and I was very impressed.
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This Blog Post is a tutorial about how to install a Profile Box Button Widget to your Facebook Profile. By installing the Profile Box Application you are able to add custom html to your facebook profile page. By inserting links to your on-line profiles and copying the code in the post below you will be able to give your friends an easy way to connect with you on Twitter, Linkedin, and friendfeed.
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In this Video I review the 12 Icons in the top-left of TweetDeck, and talk about what they do. The buttons cover features like the TweetBar, Friends, Replies, Trending Topics, and Groups.
Stay tuned for Part 2 where I will be discussing TweetDeck Settings like color customization, as well as the functions of the TweetBar!
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