Going... Going... GREEN

The whole world has gone GREEN! - which is amazing... Many companies are "going green" lately by pledging to conduct business with less CO2 emissions, waste less energy and by providing shuttle services for employees so they don't all have to drive. While many companies are going green, the biggest shocker was Walmart! Can't help but think this is just a great PR ploy to change their brand perception from "slave-driving corporate (middle) America" to "New, Cool, ... GREEN".

It's crazy how hip GREEN is now. From celebrities to big business, if you're GREEN, you're cool. Although lots of companies may be going green for the wrong reasons (Corporate Reputation, Pre-Emptive Positioning) one company that really makes going GREEN believable is Yahoo! I've always been a big fan of Yahoo! and I really love everything they do. Their new GREEN initiative is pretty darn cool. I pledged today to waste ~4 tons less CO2 this year... What will you pledge?

Yahoo! decided to donate hybrid taxis to New York City (pics courtesy of Flickr: Yodel Anecdotal)

Matt Dillon shows his support

Let's all go GREEN and save the damn world please... I want to be able to snowboard this winter season... :T

"My" Spaces

Now that I am trying to be an active member for Web 2.0.. I decided that I needed a good forum for a "My" space. A number of publishers these days (Yahoo, New York Times, iGoogle)offer this type of customizable one-stop pages. Some are still in Beta but others are becoming quite usefull in having all your favorite content one page (including blog feeds like mine!). My iGoogle page below:

The F- Words

"Flickr", "Facebook" and "Flock"

In attempts to really build out my blogging, I joined Flickr and uploaded some pictures from my work desktop to it and created a badge (see to your right the flash unit with small tiles ---->)

I've been using Facebook for most, if not all of my social networking needs. I never liked MySpace because of all the clutter and the mass histeria behind the huge Newscorp purchase. (I'm all about the underdog). Now Newscorp is announcing that they will be purchasing photobucket -- an online photo hosting site.

Also I've claimed my blog on Tecnhnorati to boost some traffic to my site. Hopefully this works. Anyone know some other good ways to boost your blog?

And for the Pièce de résistance: Flock! A new web browser designed for the Web 2.0 world. I just downloaded today so I'm still feeling it out but it's already growing on me. See screenshot of my post desktop below. You can drag and drop your pictures from Flickr and add it to any html field...



So now when I comment on other blogs and forums I can add photos straight from my Flickr albums... Let's start flocking blogging!