10. Craigslist Changed classified ads Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums. Craig Newmark began the service in 1995 as an email distribution list of friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area, before becoming a web-based service in 1996. After incorporation as a private [ Read More ]
1. Washington Post Every day The Washington Post receives hundreds of news tips from community and business leaders, government workers, parents, cab drivers, students and people from all over the metropolitan area. Many tips become items on washingtonpost.com/local or in the next day’s paper. Some even provide the first break in a major story that has a profound impact on affairs in the capital, the nation and the world. Unfortunately, [ Read More ]
iPhone apps run the gamut from serious business to entertaining games. Price and quality are all over the board but no matter the budget, time-constraint, or attention span, there’s one that fits the bill. 1. Paper Toss Have you ever been bored at work, crumpled up a piece of paper and counted how many times you can make it in a small trash can? Has your boss ever gone out [ Read More ]
1. Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the “Google Guys”, while the two were attending Stanford University as Ph.D. candidates. It was first incorporated as [ Read More ]





