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InviteShare.com is an excellent site that has a simple mission, hook up people with invites to invite only sites.  If you have been searching the internet for an invite to Pownce or GrandCentral then look no further.  Just sign up for InviteShare and request invites to any site that intrigues you.

As with all community sites like this, make sure to share the love.  When you get an invite, invite others that request it.  This is the only way that services like these can stay afloat.

Flickr for photos

In celebration of my new camera. Today’s post will be covering flickr.

Flickr is a photo sharing site that was recently acquired by Yahoo! It has a very large user base of enthusiastic photographers sharing their recently captured photographs. It is a free service which is limited by monthly bandwith restrictions. There is also a “pro” version that eliminates these bandwith quotas.

First off, if you do not own a camera or have no interest in sharing your digital pictures, flickr is still a very useful site. You can use flickr to find great images. Either use their search to find photos on a specific topic or just browse some interesting photos. There are some incredible people in the world taking extrodinary pictures. After awhile, you may find that you want to start taking more pictures yourself.

After creating an account, if you want to share your masterpieces on flickr, you will first need to choose a way to upload them. There are a large number of ways to get your photos onto flickr. There is a list here, and these include things from desktop applications to email. There are even cameras that will upload directly to flickr.

Once uploaded, your images are being shared over the internet. Flickr then allows you to do more along the lines of organization. You can apply tags, descriptions, titles and more to describe your photos and assist people in finding them when doing searches. You can also organize your photos into sets and collections. This will help give more meaning and overarching themes to your photographs.

After all that you are already knee deep into flickr. The basics are uploading and organizing your photos, but you can go further than that with cards, stickers and prints. You can also get your friends and family signed up so that you can all share those precious moments, no matter how far away you live.

To check out the photos that I am sharing on flickr, visit me here. Also you can follow the photos taken with my new camera here.

What are you doing?

Twitter is a website that set out to answer the question, ‘What are you doing?’Twitter is filled with people that are typing up responses to that question as well as just adding their own short commentary to life. Twitter is like a micro blog, instead of writing up longer more involved blog posts you can just post a quick thought or idea.Although thats all neat, Twitter’s real power comes when your friends sign up. You can then use Twitter to “follow” each other. You will then get updated whenever they post something. This means that you can constantly keep your friends updated on what you are doing and find out what they’re up to.You are probably wondering what’s the point of updating your friends if they can only see it when they are logged into twitter.com? Good news is that there are other ways to get your twitter notifications, including text message to your cell phone. Now you will be able to keep tabs on all your friends no matter where you are. You can also update your status by sending a text message.Another great way to get your tweets is an application called Twitterrific(Mac only) from the Iconfactory. This will deliver your tweets right to your desktop.If anyone is interested in my random thoughts you can find my Twitter here. Now go and let the world know what YOU are doing.*Remember, a great service for putting long URLs in Twitter messages is TinyURL(link).