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Paird is yet another Social Networking site, but with a twist. Paird will show you a picture of someone and also a bunch of pictures of the other gender. Your goal is to choose who they should be paird with and if they end up liking each other then you get points. Voila! Social Matchmaking. Its like your cupid, in a Web 2.0 sort of way.

The site is buggy at the moment and doesn’t seem complete, but from what I understand someone let the cat out of the bag on this prematurely. I will definitely be killing sometime on Paird, but I am curious who I would get paird with? Natalie Portman? Kate Hudson? Yes please.

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Whats the point in having a cell phone if you don’t use it?! I only have like 3-5 people who call me on a consistent basis. If I don’t answer, then leave me a voice mail. Of course this all depends on if you can figure out my area code =B, if you can then you can call me.

CoComment is a comment tracking service that allows you to monitor comments you have made and all comments following, so you can stay involved with a comment thread. Yesterday CoComment released a few much needed features that users have been requesting since its release in February. These new features include:

- Tracking all comments, not just comments made by CoComment users
- Tracking comments on a blog you have not commented on yet
- Create a comment space for a page that does not support commenting.

These features are key in making CoComment competitive with other commenting services like Commentful and they also give me a reason to keep using CoComment.

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Tworl is a very simple website that will connect you with a random person to chat with VIA an instant messaging program. Myexperience with the site was that Tworl does not have a large enough user base yet to be really successful. Out of 5 tries, Tworl only found someone for me to chat with once. Currently Tworl only supports AOL instant messenger. I would definitely use this service to kill some time when I am bored because I love meeting new people and the rewards that some of these new relationships may bring can be priceless.

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Get some rest and figure out when 9rules will start accepting new blogs (I want in).

On my lunch break today I went to Barnes & Noble to kill time reading something interesting, when I noticed in the Programming section the new selection of books on AJAX. A few months ago there was only one book on this subject, now there is an entire section devoted to just AJAX. Thank you technology pushers.

I’ve been tagged, by Cameron Olthuis. The meme is for the top 5 social media & blogging tools.

My top 5 social media tools are…

1) Wordpress
2) Flock
3) Feedburner
4) Flickr
5) Digg

1) Wordpress - My blogging platform of choice, without it where would I be in the blog world?

2) Flock - I discovered flock a little over a month ago and I love its built in RSS reader/blog publisher/flickr uploader. I would rather use my browser as my RSS reader than a web app.

3) Feedburner - Great tool. I love checking everyday how many subscribers I have and how many hits my RSS feed has received. My subscribers are growing…slowly, but growing none the less!

4) Flickr - To be honest I just started using my Flickr account this year and I now know what I was missing out on.

5) Digg - Lets me know whats going on in the world today.

I tag

Kyle Stauffer
Devin Reams
Ben Gray
Zac Bowling

Farecast has launched its airfare prediction service which analyzes over 60 billion records of airline ticket data to predict the prices of airfare for the next 7 days. Currently only Boston and Seattle are available for departure cities, but Farecast plans to roll out nationwide coverage by the end of this year. Farecast has a familiar and easy-to-use interface that will get you the information you want quickly without distraction.

I’ve bought many plane tickets the past 2 years and having this service then would have taken alot of the guess work out of when to purchase my ticket. Normally I buy my tickets through nwa.com or Expedia and it was a real disappointment when I came back to purchase and the price had risen by 75 dollars. Farecast will be a service to watch. I hope they do great things for the airfare market.

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Hellodeo is a new web app from the creators of Odeo, that lets users record and store short videos via a web cam on Hellodeo’s site. The service also generates HTML code that the user can put on their blog or in an email.

I think this is a really cool idea that makes creating videos a breeze with Hellodeo’s simple web interface. Although I’m wondering if the service will be abused and used for pornographic purposes. If I had a web cam I would post a video of myself here, but then again I am camera shy.

Either way I will be keeping my eye on Hellodeo to see how it grows.

Lay off the caffeine