Brandon Watts

I love a good chart. That may sound corny, but just think about how much charts help us to understand information. You can read facts and figures all day long and get a basic understanding of what the data means, but once you see everything displayed on a graphical chart, it suddenly makes a lot [...]

My attention span has been steadily decreasing ever since I started using the Internet. I used to be a patient person, but now I’m only willing to give something online a few seconds of my attention in order to determine if I’m interested in it. I’ve become pretty good at skimming through text, but it [...]

We know that the Internet connects people from all over the world, but simply being connected isn’t enough. Once connections are made, what comes next? Entire companies and services are built to make these connections meaningful and to provide people with ways to collaborate and truly learn from each other. As someone who plays music, [...]

I always shock people when I tell them that I’ve never bought or sold anything on eBay. Trust me, I know how fun it is to search, but I haven’t done anything beyond this digital version of window shopping. I guess some people assume that I’ve used eBay since I’m heavily involved with technology, but [...]

If you’re a developer or designer, then chances are that you’ve had to use icons in your work before. This isn’t always so bad for designers because a lot of them prefer to create their own icons, but for a developer who doesn’t know anything about design, the process of finding good icons to use [...]

URL shorteners are everywhere these days. It almost makes you wonder how we ever dealt with URLs that were longer than a handful of characters. Somehow we managed to find a way to cope. All kidding aside, these URL shorteners are very useful today, and some social media services have pretty much made them an [...]

I’m not very good about documenting the trips that I take. I may take a couple of pictures, but that’s about it. Some people record everything about their trips through pictures and videos to the point that they’re basically able to relive the experiences in full detail. I don’t think I want to go overboard [...]

Twitter is growing exponentially as each day passes. It’s rather remarkable, actually. Here is a service that is incredibly simple, yet it’s exactly the type of thing that people have been waiting for. When the service first launched, it wasn’t very difficult to keep up with who was tweeting and what they were saying, but [...]

Having files on your computer is one thing, but if you want to share them with others you’ll have to figure out which solution works best for you. If you have a solid list of people that you want to share a file with, then you can send it to them through e-mail or upload [...]

It’s amazing to see how things that used to be complicated are now easy thanks to the Internet. There are so many examples of this, but one in particular that I have some experience with involves recording screencasts. If you’ve ever done this before, then you know that it’s not always easy. Recently some simplified [...]