Putting your life on the line is not always looked upon as a common leisure-time activity, unless you happen to be a user of Plurk (http://www.plurk.com). Plurk is a site that allows you to post snippets of your life, which are then all logically organized within a scrolling timeline for an instant snapshot of your day's activities. Think of it as Twitter (http://www.twitter.com), another blogging site encouraging short frequent updates, with an interesting twist.
 Creating the perfect search engine experience is no longer simply a numbers game, and three former engineers of Google have vowed to change this philosophy with the launch of their new search engine. Cuil (pronounced 'cool') has invented itself as a smarter, more user-friendly way of searching the web, by indexing 8 times more pages than Google and using more advanced methods of information analysis, helping you find what exactly what you're looking for.
It was another exciting day for Apple this past Monday as the world watched and waited for Steve Jobs' keynote speech at the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference. As anticipated, Apple announced that they will be releasing the next-generation of the iPhone on July 11th, which will help bring some necessary flexibility and functionality to this appealing product offering.
While retail sales have been growing at a rate of 5% to 6% per year, online retail sales have been generating an annual growth of 25%. Last year was no exception, with online sales growing 25.9% to $136.2 billion. For myself, having been in this industry for so long, it is very easy to identify the types of E-Commerce sites that are going to be successful and the ones that are going to struggle to capitalize.
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