Online Communities
Fitness Singles

Are you a fitness fanatic? Do you triumph in triathlons? Melt over manicured muscles? Are you coming home alone every night after a killer workout and saying to yourself "Man, if only I could crash on the couch in exhaustion with someone else just like me"? Fitness Singles has heard your request and has arrived on the scene, and according to recent trends, search traffic for this site is on the rise.

Dating sites are about as old as the internet itself, and to me this site doesn't seem to present anything new and out of the ordinary. At this advanced stage in the internet dating scene we begin to see the emergence of dating sites for very real, very scary, and very specific interest groups. In comparison to these, it's about damn time the body builders got on board.

Computers & Electronics
Keyboard Cat

While some sit and esoterically contemplate and discuss the meaning of our existence, others may be combining their skills and passions to create beautiful works of art. Some may be working tirelessly on their professions, dreaming of the day their small business will finally thrive, and others post crap like Keyboard Cat on Youtube. Whenever I think that we as a society make progress towards cultural and intellectual betterment, it's shit like Keyboard Cat that send my positivity plummeting back towards Earth like a meteor. FML. Despite all the glory and praise Youtube may have received for breaking the conventions of broadcasting, it today serves as a reminder to all of us that for every person that listens to a Fireside Chat by FDR, 1000 more watch Charlie the Unicorn.

Internet
Wolfram Alpha

Soon to be launched this month is a new search engine that seems to be getting a lot of press. Wolfram Research, the company that brought you Mathematica contests that its product is not in competition with Google in terms of search, but provides services of an altogether separate sort.

Tech-savvy folk that are fluent in technobabble will be able to feed it certain queries, such as "when will there be another total solar eclipse in burma" and Wolfram's search engine will decypher the question, gather the data, and display it (hopefully) in a clear, understandable way.

What's unknown at this point is how single services sites like www.islostnewthisweek.com expect to compete.