Facebook is so much fun! Everyone – and I do mean everyone …all the way up to my 80-something year old great aunt – is on Facebook! And that is a gigantic part of what makes it so cool. It is an opportunity – and an avenue – to reconnect with people from all of the different walks of your life! So come on over and join us!

Have you guys seen it? Have you heard? Did you know anything about it? I sure didn’t – I had no idea ….and I’m on Twitter every. freaking. day.

I haven’t seen any tweets about it. I must just be missing them. There is even a hashtag – of course! It’s #NewTwitter – check it out! Some people even already have the New Twitter available to them.

Available? Yeah, see, Twitter’s all smart like that. They know how we all get when there are changes afoot. Fussy and like we haven’t had our morning coffee and such. And they don’t want any of that happenin’. So once you do have it, you can switch back and forth between the old and the new, as a way to get yourself used to it. As with most of their rollouts, they are rolling it out slowly to users, in batches I guess…. They are asking people to tweet if they have it.

Check out this video about it, I think you’re gonna like it! I do! I’m excited about it!

You can read all about the details on the Twitter blog: A Better Twitter. I think it’s going to be cool and very handy! I’m totally excited!

P.S. Do you think you’re going to like it? Or do you think the new Twitter looks annoying? Tell me all about it in the comments!

How many times have we all been asked that question? Well, here is a fantabulousmous way for you to always know what day it is! I absolutely love this, as you can tell by my urge to make up words to describe it! Haha!

How cool is that? The idea arose out of the creator’s original site, The Human Clock, which started in 2001. You can watch the actual clock here ==> Human Clock.

This site is so funny! It has a “Nag-o-Meter” on the bottom, which is right now telling me:

The earth has already pulled a gnarly 5.3 degree turn in the time you’ve spent here….dude

A few minutes ago it said something like:

You’ve been here 15 minutes, that’s great. Just stay longer.

It doesn’t look like I can put the Human Clock on my website, like I did with the Human Calendar (in the sidebar for next time your ‘honey’ asks you what day it is!) but, I’m completely amazed at the sheer numbers of pictures he deals with. He was congratulating one guy for having submitted 644 pictures! Wow! So he gets tons of pictures and he keeps track of how many each person has sent! Impressive!

Now that we all know what day it is, let’s get on with it, shall we? The day, that is…

I really want to talk to you guys – I’ve got all kinds of groovy things to spout off about, but, I’m supposed to be working on other stuff. I’m really having trouble with that FOCUS thing. Agh – it’s hard, I keep popping back into my WordPress dashboard, thinking I’ll post, and I keep just popping into email for just a minute and I keep popping into my Twitter account for just a second and I just have to…

STOP IT!! …AND FOCUS!!

So I thought I’d just share this cool news with you that I just heard about this morning from Shawn Collins over at Affiliate (Tip). Facebook is finally going to give us custom URL’s for our profiles! I think this is super cool and I can’t wait! Read this post on his blog all about it: Vanity URLs on Facebook Starting This Saturday Then subscribe to his blog, because, I learn all kinds of good stuff from him!

Amy Poehler is creating a wonderful new show that celebrates girls for just being themselves! Amy has teamed up with some of her friends to make the show and it is called, “Smart Girls at the Party” and the tag line is:

Amy Poehler, Meredith Walker and Amy Miles celebrate girls who are changing the world by being themselves.

In each episode, Amy interviews girls and talks to them about some of the cool things they are doing in their lives. This is one sorely-needed show! You know what it makes me think of? You know those Dove commercials and videos? Actually, I think this was just an online video – but, it was a video of what we, as girls and women, are bombarded with from the time we are very young about beauty and body image. Completely, totally eye-opening video. And every time I watch it, I think, ‘I wish there was more of this.’ To me, that’s exactly what Amy’s new show is – more of that positive, uplifting, you-really-are-amazing-just-as-you-are message that is contained in each and every Dove ad and video. I love this! I can’t wait to show my daughter this show! I think they should show them in schools. And no, don’t split up the girls and boys so the boys don’t have to watch. The boys need to learn that, too! They might need to learn it more than the girls do! (Now don’t make me get on a rant about that!)

Here, watch the video and see what I mean about how great it is!

And the super cool thing is that they have paired up with Cozmo.TV to help the thing go viral like hotcakes! The widget provided by Cozmo.TV is really handy. You can easily embed the video onto your own blog or onto quite a few different sites quite easily just by clicking “Grab this TV”. They even have Squidoo on there and that is one of my very favorite social media sites! That’s awesome!

You can also easily email the widget to your friends and family by clicking on the button that says, “Share with Friends”. You can join the Cozmo.TV site from the widget and then save the video as one of your favorites. You can even watch other channels on Cozmo.TV from the widget and there are some really good ones! I watched a ‘book tv’ one about an author who was a Holocaust survivor and now I’m totally putting that book in my Amazon wishlist. And I saw that they even have Animal Planet on there, which is one of my very favorite channels on TV!

I think it’s just really cool that Amy Poehler’s new show, “Smart Girls at the Party” has such an awesome chance to go super viral using the Cozmo.TV widget! You can get your own widget here and help spread some badly needed feel good vibes for the young girls out there!

I’ve been singing Viddler.com’s praises for a long time now. I really like their service. It is so much easier for me to upload my videos there and I really like the embedded videos’ capabilities on my blog. I think the main reason I like their embeds so much better is when you go full-screen, they are still clear and crisp videos.

So YouTube.com released some updates to their site one day last week – and the first thing to cross my mind was – “Hey! They look like Viddler now!”

I wonder what’s up with that. Could they really feel threatened by Viddler? With the unbelievable amount of traffic that YouTube has, I can’t imagine that they would. I actually got to test the traffic differences around Halloween.

Sammie had produced, directed, and acted in a video and I uploaded it to Viddler. In a few days, she had eight views. I then uploaded it to YouTube – and in a few HOURS – she got eight views. That’s a major difference.

I’m still a Viddler fan, traffic or not. I like YouTube, for sure, and I’m not writing it off completely. I use both of them from time to time. Viddler is my favorite, though.

And maybe, like me – YouTube sees the value and ‘popularity climbability’ that Viddler possesses.

Now check out what I’m saying about the similarities. Here’s Viddler.com homepage:

And here is the new YouTube.com homepage:

Now isn’t that interesting? Hmm….

What video-sharing site do you prefer?

(Click to biggify.)

Uh…yeah…Lynn and I have been talking a lot lately! Ha!

I stumbled onto the Twitter Grader this afternoon and I, being the self-centered me that I am, checked my score. I got a 94, not too shabby. And then, further with the self-concern, I wondered how I compared to Lynn Terry’s score. I put in her name and clicked ‘Get My Grade’ and went to other windows bee-bopping around, doing other things, while I waited. When I finally went back to that window – before I could even notice her score – I saw it! Lynn is completely obsessed with me! There’s no denying it! It’s all there in black and white! Burnt orange and white! Whatev!

Hahaha! I’m just kidding! Lynn and I have known each other for a number of years – well, she’s been on my radar, anyhoo. I’m frequently wearing my slacker-gear and I joined her forum eons ago (in internet-speak) and never freaking posted!

Image via Wikipedia

But, I digress – this post is about Lynn being in love with me. Oh yeah. See, she has this free webinar every Tuesday morning – just for me! Seriously – go read the page! Go on – click it! You’ll see – it says it right there in that post – this is for Lisa. Yep. Yeppers.

And she makes up catchy new phrases like “Rank and Tank” just for me to use! And then she makes nice long posts to explain them thoroughly – to me!

Alright, alright, I’m just razzin’ ya again! But let me tell ya something she does do for me. And I imagine for a lot of other people, too. I mean, she teaches me a lot, sure. But sometimes she reaches straight through the computer screen and touches. my. heart., effectively adding fuel to the fire I already have burning there. You know the fire – that fire I have to succeed at this thing called ‘online business’.

So Lynn, thank you! Even though I probably won’t be leaving my husband for ya anytime soon (ya never know – it could happen)! Thank you for teaching me (and all of us that learn from you) so much!

What the heck happened?! This was supposed to be a ‘givin’ Lynn grief’ post and it turned into another ‘Lynn Terry Lovefest’. Man! (Sorry, davebo, or whatever your name is – I guess Lynn’s good nature just brings it out in us – even when we’re trying to give her a hard time!)

Someone on Twitter that I follow tweeted this very cool and extremely addicting site, Wordle.net. For the life of me, I can’t remember who it was that tweeted it, but, I know it was a guy that lives in Dallas. I’ll figure it out eventually.

Look at the awesomely cool things you can make there!

Isn’t that cool? Most people are using a TON of words, but, I’ve never really been one to play ‘by the rules’. My own beat and all…

Here’s one I made with my main sites on it:

I am going to use my Vista snipping tool to grab that one for my Twitter profile. I could seriously spend HOURS there messing around! I love that site! My only critique is that I had to fix the spacing in the coding to make it work on my blog. Otherwise, I freaking love this site!

If ya’ll make some, tell me about it in the comments and tell me where I can see yours!

I just downloaded the Flock Browser: Eco-Edition and I love it! I’m so excited about it! Today is, after all, Earth Day – no better day to discover such a simple way to not only give back, but, stay on top of all things Eco-conscious happening around the world! Now I don’t really know if their launch of this version was planned specifically for Earth Day, as it looks like people have already been using it. I happened to find it on Earth Day and I think that’s really cool.

The Eco Edition is really cool, because, it comes with all kinds of eco-news already loaded into all the cool feeds that Flock is known for having. Flock is the ‘social browser’, made to accommodate those of us who are heavily into social networking on the internet. It is also very handy for bloggers, as you can blog right from your browser, if you would like. One of my favorite things is that you can drag and drop stuff from one place to another with Flock. If there’s a really great picture that I come across and I really want to share it with my dad, all I have to do is drag it into an email and send it to him. I love that!


This new edition has all the great features that we’ve come to know and love from Flock, and they have partnered with all kinds of eco-friendly websites, and their feeds come automatically loaded into the ‘My World’ tab. One of my favorites that they’ve partnered with is Treehugger.com. I love that site! And now I’ve got lots of news from them in my face when I open my browser!

The other thing I notice right away is the accounts in my Flickr feed (called ‘Favorite Media’ in Flock) that are all about the earth and the environment. I find it really quite interesting – there’s lots of good stuff for me to blog about without even looking for it. And I’ll easily find lots of cool stuff to share with my mom, my eco-buddy/mentor.

And look how pretty Hippie Spelunker looks in Flock Eco!

Another super cool thing about it is that at the end of the year, Flock is going to donate 10% of their search revenue to charity. What charity? That’s the coolest part – they are letting all of the users of the Eco-Edition browser decide which charity gets that money!

I’m sure there is way more about the new browser that I’m missing. When I stumble on other cool features, I’ll be sure to share it with you here!

**SUPER GROOVY UPDATE** I meant to say this and I forgot! This is so cool! The refresh button …is the recycle symbol! I love it! (Yahoo’s O’s are recycle symbols, too! Groovy on them, too!)

Look people, if you’re going to have the gall to try to scam me through my email – could you please at least SPELL things correctly? Would it hurt? Damn creeps need to just stay the hell outta my email anyway!

Watch out, everybody – be super cautious when reading emails! Don’t just click links automatically – I know we’ve been told this again and again, but, as it’s still happening (the emails) – they must be getting somebody with their nefarious email misdeeds! And that, in turn, means that the warning bears repeating, as well!

And I am more than happy to do that, and include a copy of the make-your-eyes-bleed-with-misspellings email!

Dear PayPal User,

We are sorry to inform you that due to our recent security improvements you must
confirm your account information in order to keep it running in a perfect condition.
You are requested by PayPal to Log In and to verify all the requested information.
Please notice that submiting wrong information may lead to PayPal account removal.
We know that is an inconvinience to you, but please understand that this is a very
important security measure for us for keeping your account safe and secure.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us at any time security@paypal.com
You can confirm your account information by clicking the link bellow:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/login

Best Regards
PayPal Account Mentainance Team.
Copyright 1999-2008 PayPal. All rights reserved.

Do you think, though, that they could at least learn to spell? I’ve highlighted their hideous misspellings – and isn’t it so funny that ‘misspelling’ is one of the most often misspelled words? I just love that! Haha!

Oh, and the ‘link’ they want me to click does NOT go to the URL you are reading on the page! It is actually linked to some stinkin’ fiestasdeoctubre site…hmmm… very strange, indeed! You’ll notice in the pic below, they wanted the email reader to go to some barbeque site! (You can click on the pic to see it a little bigger, or you can click on her name [miss604] to see it even bigger on her Flickr account. Thanks, Miss604!)

With much love,
The Suspicious Hippie

P.S. Oh yeah – and always forward them to the PayPal fraud department – whose email address escapes me at this time. Anyone want to remind me? scam@paypal.com? no… *scratches chin*