Below is a very interesting video by The Economist of how social media, the Internet, cell phones and technology has changed our lives.

Mixcloud is an online radio site that wants to be the “YouTube of Radio”.  The site helps connect radio content to listeners via radio shows, Podcasts and DJ mixes. And best of all, it’s free!  (See video below).

Mixcloud refers to the radio content as Cloudcasts; audio shows that are stored in the “cloud” and available to be streamed on-demand.

Like YouTube, anyone can create an account and upload their content. The community then decides what they like and what gets to the top of the popularity charts.  Mixcloud accepts all types of radio content from talk to music shows that have 5 tracks or more in MP3 format.

Video: What is Mixcloud.com?

For more information visit Mixcloud.com.

Who do you think is better at money management, men or women?  According to Financial Finesse, a financial education company, in the first quarter of this year more than twice as many women as men called to a financial helpline regarding strategies to reduce debt.

Financial Finesse conducted a survey of over 3,000 responses to an online financial planning questionnaire and found the following:

From the data is does appear that men are better at money management.  However, from the survey maybe women are more open to reporting their flaws as opposed to men who hide their flaws.

What do you think?  Please leave your responses below.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the government is using Facebook and MySpace to find tax deadbeats.  State revenue agents have been mining through information posted on social-networking Web sites to find relocation announcements, professional profiles and financial boasts.

On MySpace a long-sought tax evader was found and forced to pay back taxes after he posted that he would be returning to work in his hometown as a real-estate broker; for which he gave the name of his employer.  The state of Minnesota ended up collecting several thousand dollars, the full amount due.  In Nebraska, agents collected $2,000 from a deejay after he advertised on his MySpace page that he would be working at a big public party.

Read full article.

One thing I love about Google is that they offer so many free tools that makes your life easier, allows you to conduct business and even make you money.  

I currently use Google Documents, Google Reader (tracks RSS feeds from multiple websites), Google Base (list products for sale), Google Checkout (process orders, like PayPal), Google Webmaster (optimize website), Google Analytics (track visitors to website), Google Calendar, Google Adsense (make money from advertising), Google Sketch (create 3-D drawings), Google Mail, Google Alert (track new topics on the Web), Google Chrome (Web browser), Google Search (search engine for website) and Google Maps all for free.  Google however offers many more free applications that I’ve never used.

One interesting new Google application just released is the Google Checkout Store Gadget that makes it easy and quickly to create an online store using Google Docs spreadsheet.  The application allows you to easily add a store to an existing website or Blog.  This is great if you are novice and want to sell items on the Internet.  Google Checkout handles the credit card transactions for you (like PayPal).  With the Google Checkout Store Gadget no complicated coding or technical skills are required.  You can get your online store up and running in under 5 minutes, according to Google.

For more information visit StoreGadget.GoogleLabs.com.

To see all Google Applications visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/

Want to see how a rich criminal lives?  Then check out the January 2008 American Express Bill for Bernie Madoff, his family and top business associates shown below.   The bill for the month was $100,121.99, which includes spending money for shopping, dinning and travel, all paid from the $50 billion Ponzie scheme.  The month prior the bill was $169,283.45.   That is some serious money!  How could Madoff sleep at night knowing that one day he would be caught?

Related Articles:

• The Madoff Affair by FRONTLINE
• Caribbean-based Millennium Bank Ponzi Scheme Uncovered

This is interesting! YouTube is now allowing users to upload videos that can be converted to 3D. To produce a 3D film 2 cameras are required. You then upload the video and YouTube converts the video into 3D. Of course, you will need 3D glasses to watch the video.

See video below of CTV SWO creating a 3D Video

See 3D by CTV SWO at YouTube (3D Glasses Required)