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A buddy of mine who is one of the masterminds behind a major technology blog just launched a nifty little Web service called Twishlist.

Twishlist is basically a community wish list on Twitter. Just include @wants somewhere in your tweet and your tweet, which hopefully you worded in such a way it would makes sense on a wish list, appears. One of those fun little things that you can do with Twitter.

There are a bunch of cool Twitter Web apps out there, and now we have another to add to the list. Speaking of lists, stay tuned for a top five favorite Twitter related tools / sites list here on JustinSpeak.

Okay, a site that I was developing for a not for profit organization has just been hacked! The name of these hackers is cozumx, does anyone know of this? Anyway to get my old site back?

I’m at a loss here.  The site was built on Joomla (1.5.6).  Something let these people through!

Sorry if this post is disjointed, but I’m kinda freaking out.

Check out what you get if you Google Cozumx. I’m not the only person that has had a site hacked by these guys.

If anyone can help, please leave it in the comments.

Okay, we at JustinSpeak aren’t ones to spread rumors and untruths, but I can’ help but say it.

Steve Jobs looks very sick.

Image courtesy of engadget.com

Those who know me well know I’m a big Apple fanboi.  I think Steve Jobs is a visionary and probably the greatest Marketer since Ogilvy.  I do hope he’s okay.  We’re all rooting for you Steve. Get better.

Steve Jobs has fought cancer. However, he has overcome it once before.  I think he can do it again. If any of you out there have battled cancer, in any of its forms, or know someone who has, please do something to help.  I found a few links to places that you can donate money to if you don’t have time to lend a hand.  I’d also recommend doing any races, fund-raisers, or anything else to help fund the treatment of cancer.

1. Simon Cancer Foundation
2. American Cancer Society
3. Ovarian Cancer Coalition
4. Ashley Fister Cole Foundation
5. Susan Komen

Again, good luck Steve.  Maybe you’re not as sick as I and other bloggers are thinking. If not, then I’m sorry. If so, then I applaud you for getting up there and doing what you love: showing your company and talents to the world.

The Live Video Control Room at NBCOlympics.com is the coolest thing ever. You can watch up to four events at once, assign different video to different screens, jump from sport to sport, enlarge a video if you’re particularly interested and there are other features I’m still learning.  This is major cool.  I wish Joost would have been able to do this (I like supporting the little guy).  Speaking of supporting the little guy, Micrsoft’s Silverlight technology really seems to be making a name for itself here.  Yeah, its a Flash alternative, but if NBCOlympics.com is taste of the potential of Silverlight, then I guess we have room for another fancy Internet technology.

So I’ve been using StumbleUpon for about a month or so now.  I love it.  It is SO easy to bookmark a page.  All you have to do is click the thumbs up.  However, I’m a big del.icio.us user and it makes it a little difficult on deciding which service to use for which page. My first idea was to use Stumble for individual pages and Delicious for entire sites.  However, that makes it difficult because sometimes I want to mark an individual page AND the parent site.

There are two particular issues about Stumble that are getting my goat. Stumble supposedly has a feature where you can import your del.icio.us bookmarks, but I can’t get it to work. This really pisses me off because being able to do a once a month dump into Stumble would really build an accurate picture of what I like on the Internet.  My other gripe is that I’ve been using Delicious for several years now and have hundreds and hundreds of bookmarks stored up! What’s a Justin Schmidt to do?

The random stumbling though is easily the coolest feature.  Not that I get bored on the Internet much, but when I do it is a great way to find new shit to see.