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Looking for some interesting websites to visit? here are some cool sites to visit.

• Isle of Man Twestival – Celebrating social media and raising money for charity. Come join us!
• Tools 4 Noobs – Some great hacker tools and utilities
• 5 tips to improve your home cooking – For the aspiring chefs out there
• How your brain tells time – Interesting insight into how the brain works
• Convert your laptop into a digital projector – Here’s a great DIY project
• Connection Strings – A site dedicated to being the ultimate resource when it comes to connection strings
• All there is to know about chickens – Yes chickens
• Open Source Restaurant – How’s that for a concept?

Enjoy the honey!

I’ve neglected this blog for a few days, which is unusual, due to a number of other projects and bits I’ve been involved in, but it’s time for a HoneyPot from all the links I’ve saved up for you. Here we go:

• Let me Google that for you: Love this site. Excellent way to get a message across
• How to hack your Kindle: Great tip if you want to read a variety of media on your Amazon Kindle
• Four fatal flaws of strategic planning: For all the management types out there
• Barcode Art: Try passing that through your barcode scanner
• Debunking six social media myths: Don’t believe everything you read
• Todocast.tv: If you’re looking for live video casting solutions
• Where’s my free plastic bag: My rant on paying for plastic bags
• Open letter to the would-be CEO blogger: Actually some good advice that most bloggers can learn from
• The funny side of Twitter: Are we all ego maniacs waiting for the bubble to burst?
• The sorry state of music startups: A sector that needs some serious soul searching

Enjoy the linkage

We haven’t had a honeypost in some time and my bookmarks are just overflowing with interesting snippets for all of you to enjoy. I have so much to choose from that I decided to focus today on

• How Twitter was born: Some interesting insight into the birth of Twitter.
• How to use Twitter for Business: An excellent introduction to Twitter which walks through how it can be applicable to marketing, PR and customer service.
• 8 patterns in social media ecosystems: Not directly about Twitter but relevant to anyone interested in learning more about social media.
• Pancheros integrates Twitter into stores: A real life example of how a US retailer is embracing new technology. Expect the trend to grow. It’s only a matter of time before you can buy New York Yankees tickets on Twitter too
• Add a TweetRoll to your blog: How to add a WordPress widget that shows off your friends and followers.
• Top cigar aficionados on Twitter: Yes, you can find anything your heart desires on Twitter.
• TweetWheel: A great way to visualise your friends and who’s connected to whom.
• Twhirl: My favourite Twitter client. Much recommended. Especially as the new version includes a spell checker to stop those embarrassing typos.
• Twittervision: An awesome way to while away your free time. Watch as Tweets pop up all over the world. Great visualisation mashup.

So great links there, especially if you’re into Twitter. If you’re not, well maybe now is the time to sign up and give it a try. If you’re in there, don’t forget to follow me.

The time for good cheer is here and I’ve got a great collection of links to keep you entertained over the Xmas hols. I hope you have some time on your hands as there’s no better time to be distracted, especially as there’s a smattering of Christmas links in there:

• Christmas in New York: Have a listen of Clara Barker’s new single. One of the musical prodigies on the Isle of Man.
• CrowdedInk: Get your very own Twitter mug
• Welcome to Ronan: Derek is a new dad!
• Lavalamp for your iPhone: Ohhh .. so want one of those.
• Traveas: Get realtime information about your flight, any flight.
• How to implement advanced SEO: If you plan to spend your holidays optimising your website.
• Twitbacks: Make yourself a magnificent Twitter background (for free). Now with holiday backgrounds.
• Undersea Internet cable: How the Web makes it from one continent to another
• Elf bowling: Get into the Christmas spirit!
• You’ve got 7 seconds to do it: Have you managed to engage your audience?
• Tweetwasters: I’ve spent 1.39 Days on Twitter. How long have you spent?
• Elf Yourself: That perrenial Christmas favourite

Hope you like the links. Have a great Christmas!

Here’s an interesting service I came across. Report Phone Numbers is a simple website that lets you place a “Harassing Caller Report” so that it can be shared with other users of the site.

The interesting idea here is that it’s using the power of a social network to power the concept. Different people contribute different items of information and as the data grows; it’s usefulness grows. In this case it’s caller phone numbers but the idea translates to other concepts.

Interesting idea huh?

We haven’t had a honeypot in some time, so here’s a chance to catch up on some great links to keep you nice and distracted:

• How to network: Excellent advice on how to get out there, make friends and build business contacts
• Twittex: Here’s how to resume your Twitter-SMS service in the UK
• AVS Video Converter: Free tool that lets you rotate and flip video
• A tale of love: Great gadgety video
• Save My Boys: Help Jenn and Carolyn get their boys back
• E: Is this the future of social networking?
• SuperPress: Get your mitts on the theme I’m using for this site
• Tater Titan: Some people just have too much time on their hands

Enjoy!

Bzzzz

And I’ve realised I forgot my normal honey-post this weekend. It wouldn’t be so bad, except my bookmark thingy is full and I need to offload some linky goodness to keep everyone distracted. So, without further ado, here’s some honey for everyone:

• CSS Mojo: Some great CSS techniques to make elements on your page stand out.
• How to handle “IHateYourCompany.com”: Interesting article on WSJ about how to deal with “Gripe sites”
• The 5 most terrifying rites of manhood in the world: Makes you glad you were born in the Western World
• Smugopedia: A collection of interesting stuff
• BBC News What’s Popular: Here’s a great way to read the news. Read what other people find interesting.
• Win a 2Gb MP3 player: Complete with voice recorder and thumb drive. Great competition running till the 6th October.
• Mr Bounce: Because every honeypost needs a game
• Tweetwheel: Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other
• MoreCSS: Hyder assures me this is cool. Looks like fun, but I’m not really much of a CSS man
• Interfacelift Wallpaper: Some great free high resolution backgrounds for your computer

Hope you enjoyed today’s honeypost, it’s a bit less techie than usual, but still fun. Have you come across anything interesting recently? I don’t mean and Japanese proverbs or diet pill reviews; but something that you’ll bookmark and share with your friends. Just send them in!

It’s nice when the weekend comes around and you have a chance to catchup on everything going on around you. In case you have too much time, here are some links to keep you suitably distracted:

• The music industry is killing Pandora: Paying too many royalties to be able to survive. What a crying shame!
• PhoneSpell: Tired of trying to figure out what your phone number can spell? This website will do the work for you.
• Cruelcard gets an update: My old ASP website gets a lick of new paint.
• The ABCs of Alpha, Beta, CTP: Understanding Microsoft terminology.
• PapyerToys: A great website if you need to keep kids (and adults entertained). Just make sure your camera’s memory cards are empty before you go here, as you’ll be taking snaps of everything you make.
• New Google Adsense for Feeds; a Pain in the Rear End: Google botches up their integration between Adsense and Feedburner.
• Talent is never enough: Not even for your blog: Some interesting insight from Mike Sansone.
• How to tell if you’re hiring a cheap kid or a professional: It’s always worth getting someone who can do the job. You wouldn’t get your neighbour’s cousin who’s doing woodwork at college to fit your kitchen, so why let an amateur define your online presence?

They have also added media searches to let you search through video (coming from YouTube) and images (coming from Flickr). It’s a great idea really, try looking for Vegas vacations for example, and you can get videos and images directly related to where you’re planning to go. Or search for Music Toad and find something surprising.