I know it’s been a little while, but I wanted to let you all know I’ve been hard at work on a brand new project. It’s called Eeny.me!

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The Internet has always been a pretty social place. After all, the heart of it is and will always be communication. Since this is a huge aspect of the Internet in general, I wanted to start a series on my blog called “Social Studies” where I talk about, analyze, and comment on the websites that really push people to socialize with one and other.

To get the ball rolling, if you look at almost any of MY social profiles, you’ll find this snarky line:

I don’t particularly like social networking sites, but they do keep me updated with the lives of people I know and care about, but don’t care or know enough to call or see.

The funny thing is, I’ve always enjoyed social networking sites. Even the ones I absolutely hated *cough, cough* MySpace *cough*, I still visited pretty regularly when they were at the height of their popularity. But the most interesting thing about these sites is that most of the people you connect with are people whose friendship wasn’t really that important to you to begin with. People in my generation, and ones prior to my generation, are re-connecting with these people like never before. People in the current generation are never losing touch to begin with. This will probably make class reunions less interesting in the future.

After the jump, I hone in on a few websites that I find most interesting (or interesting when they were popular, at least)!

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Sure, I’m just as jealous as the next guy (or girl) when I see someone showing off their iPhone with the latest kick arse app. But you know, us BlackBerry subscribers have some really cool apps at our disposal too. Take a look at some of my favorites… that are FREE to boot!

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Had a busy weekend chock-full of Free stuff! Let’s start with Saturday. Myself and 2 of my fellow web developer friends got up bright and early to head to Drupal Camp in Brooklyn. We had to sign up on the site beforehand, but it was Free to attend, which goes with the whole theme of Drupal being Free, community-developed software.

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Like most responsible web developers, I have a whole bunch of web browsers installed on my machine: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, Chrome, hell, at one point I had a Windows version of Linx! Now that’s all well and good, but what about different VERSIONS of the same browser. I mean, there is a pretty significant difference between IE6 and IE7, and unfortunately, a large number of the uninformed population still use IE6. Sadly, MS doesn’t make this easy for you since you can only have ONE version of Internet Explorer installed on Windows, right?

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Balancing my professional and personal life has been pretty tricky lately. The work seems never-ending, which is a good thing, right? Well, yes and no. I know there are a whole lot of people out there that are struggling to find just ONE client or just ONE job. In fact, I see these people posting and considering job auction sites like elance.com, undercutting others, and doing the work for a song if they end up getting it at all.

Well, that’s a post for another day. Today’s post is about BALANCE, which I have little of… but I do try, or at least I want to start trying! Right now I’m juggling a full time job that “encourages” me to stay late; a lucrative freelancing gig; an online Ajax class; and time for my wife, friends, and, of course, me. Honestly, I just feel there are not enough hours in the day!

So what am I doing right and what am I doing wrong?

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If  you’re anything like me, you get up early on Saturday morning and go straight to your computer. What? You don’t do that. Oh, well in that case, you probably missed all the excitement this past Saturday. Okay, it’s not very exciting, but interesting at least.

As I was building a new form for a site, I was interrupted by a fellow web developer via Google chat. “Dude,” he said. “Have you seen Google?” Quickly, I pointed my browser Google-bound to see what in heck he was talking about. Turned out, every site had the warning This site may harm your computer.

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I must admit, I’ve had a pretty good year. And despite the recent recession, it’s still the best since I became a freelance web developer almost 10 years ago. In a minute I’ll talk about all the new tools and ideas I have for 2009 to continue my success, but I want to take a moment and list all the things I did differently in 2008 that made my business more lucrative.

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If you go to your local Staples store today (December 22nd), you can get a FREE copy of Quickbooks Pro 2009. The retail is $199.99 with a $40 instant rebate and a $159.99 mail-in rebate. I already got my copy at lunch. Go on and get your copy now!

A few weeks ago I wrote about Google Sync in this post, and promised to get back to y’all after I tested it a bit more thoroughly.

Soooo… After a couple of weeks of testing, I have a verdict… Google Sync is pretty darn awesome! Not only does it automatically SAVE all your BB’s contacts to your gmail account in case—you know—you lose your phone or it dies beyond repair, but it syncs up with Google Calendar too.

And this is great because now I won’t forget that I have a meeting with a potential client tomorrow at 10am and a meeting with my accountant at 5pm. YES, both Google AND my BB are reminding me of this. Sure to be even more helpful when my schedule is busier in the future.

But, the thing about this app is the saving of contacts, hands down. Sure, I can easily plug in my BB to my computer, open some software, backup my contacts… OR I can just have it done automatically.