Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Discovering webcontent

If you are already in your 30s, then chances are one or more of the following apply to your use and impression of the "interweb"

  • You have one main password that you use to log into everything that doesn't ask you to change passwords regularly and a second one for those pesky websites that do, like internet banking.
  • You have five (5) maybe six (6) websites that you go to routinely for news and email. If it's not on there, it doesn't exist.
  • You rely on your friends' Facebook posts that appear on your newsfeed to find new content 
  • You know that twitter is supposed to be this big deal but you still can't figure out what all these hashtags and @ signs are trying to say
  • The interwebesphere can seem boring most times, so when bored go to youtube and search for kitten videos
I too have found that finding new content is tedious and I realised that unless content is delivered to you that has been curated, the internet may as well be a slab of concrete. Here are a two great websites that deliver content to you. All you need are these two to start.

Stumble Upon Something New 
www.stumbleupon.com - Sign up and select your preferences and stumbleupon's engine will deliver fresh new content that match your selected preferences. If you don't like what they suggest (which is very rare seeing that the sites are ranked by user satisfaction) just click next and they will suggest another, and another and another and another. The interwebesphere just keeps going with this one.





www.mashable.com - bye bye Facebook newsfeed! Mashable provides you with trending topics, technology, apps, reviews and viral videos. The world just got a little more interesting. Now you can counteract all those kitten videos by sharing the more interesting content you have found here

Happy Hunting!

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