Dating Deals

What are the three most important things to you when it comes to finding love? Unfortunately, financial prowess is not likely one of them. If you're looking for true companionship, money-mindedness is a good thing to consider. After all, if you'd like to eventually sync lives with this person it would be a good thing if they weren't a total drag on your own stability.

Here are five quick tips for measuring a date's financial acumen on the fly: Read More …

Facebook, Inc, recently launched a brand-new ad format, called a "Featured Story," which dumps paid content - rather than updates from Great Aunt Lynn about her recent biopsy or one of those internet memes - squarely into our news feeds. Worse, these paid advertisements (a.k.a. "news feed) shows the actions of the Facebook users friends and these ads are front-and-center on our Facebook news feed.

Great. More ads.

I've been mildly annoyed by the ads (read: "Sponsored Stories") on the sidebar of Facebook, but have been able to tune them out. Now, when I'm blearily checking to see if I've gotten any response to my "Which Disney Princess Are You?" post, I'm bound to accidentally click a Featured Story.

You know what? I'm sick of ads.

Because I have to sell my firstborn son in order to see a movie these days, I do it perhaps twice a year. Read More …

I know a ton of people who'd like to abandon their pricey home phone service, but still want the equivalent of a landline for convenience, emergencies--and the occasional marathon chat session (one that won't eat into their mobile minutes or drain their cell phone's battery). Read More …