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2009 Taxes: Maximize Your Return With the Realtime Web

2/25/10 - Posted by Jennifer Hodges under How to Use the Realtime Web

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As much as we may wish it away, tax-day deadline is swiftly approaching.  While procrastination is always an option, wouldn’t it be nice to just get them done and head in to those spring months without your taxes hanging over your head?  Luckily, the internet is a gateway to all sorts of fantastic resources for filing, both in traditional and realtime search.

With new websites featuring 2009 tax information emerging every day, the realtime web is a great place to grab money saving tips that will help you maximize your return.  We did a quick search today, and here are some of the top tax sites that were returned.

  • Odd-Ball Tax Deductions - Write off your cat food, free beer, or boob-job.  Even if you don’t think your eligible for any tax deductions, after reading this article you may think twice.  (Kiplinger- Feb 2010)
  • Broke-Ass Blog - 6 tips to make the most of your tax return without getting screwed in the process.  (Chicago Now - Feb 25, 2010)

With both money saving tax tips and filing directly from your computer, you’ve got no excuse to miss that April 15th deadline.  Hopefully if you follow the advice in the links above, you’ll get a big return and not a debt.

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2010: 2009 All Over Again?

12/31/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

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The Story: It’s almost 2010, shouldn’t we have a good tagline to go along with it?

The Search: New Years

Precious few hours are left in the decade that has yet to have a affectionate moniker bestowed upon it other than the rather drab “aughts” or “oh-oh’s.” We could easily look back on the the last ten years and affix the era with an apt title like the “Decade Where Everyone Decided To Go Completely Insane Over The Tiniest Pseudo-Celebrity News,” but we’ll resist that temptation.  We here at OneRiot would like to look forward to 2010.  Specifically, we’re in search of an unofficial motto that will define the attitude for the next year to come.  There’s been some great ones over the last ten years like “2001: Let’s Have Some Fun,” and “2003: Everyone’s Drinking Tea!” Who could forget the collective determination of “2008: Let’s All Lose Some Weight”? Okay, so maybe none of those were actual slogans used in their years and maybe we just made them up using simple rhyme scheme for the sake of this post, but that doesn’t mean 2010 shouldn’t have an unofficial slogan, does it?  We’ve reached into the deep well of our imagination and our knowledge of words that rhyme with “ten” (and some that don’t,)  to bring you a list of potential taglines for the year to come. (more…)

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Dying Celebs, Imma Let You Finish, but Memes Were the Best of 2009

12/28/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

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The Story: Internet memes took the social web by storm.  Here are the best of 2009.

The Search: 2009 Meme

2009 may come to be known as “The Year of the Celebrity Death.”  The double dose of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett on June 25th made us stop thinking about freeing Iran with our tweets so we could spend the next two months feathering our hair and trying to perfect our moonwalk in tribute to the King of Pop. Sure, there were a lot of well-known faces who kicked said bucket this year, but in our estimation a year shouldn’t come to be known for all of the sadness it brought.  Instead, we here at OneRiot would like to focus on one of the positive or at least non-negative fads that emerged in 2009 that helped define our Internet-obsessed being.  We hereby declare 2009 as “The Year of The Internet Meme.” In keeping with the meme theme we’re sharing our favorites.

25 Things About Me- In the early part of 2009  your Facebook friends decided to give you entirely too much personal information in 25 fell swoops.  They shared hopes, fears, dreams, and embarrassing and most likely incriminating secrets that they’d probably be arrested for revealing, all because some other person sharing too much information tagged them in their list of stuff you shouldn’t give a crap about.  This meme got so out of a hand that even Time Magazine (link:http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1877187,00.html) asked their friends to keep some things to themselves. (more…)

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Kids Named the Darndest Things

12/22/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

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The Story: 2009 was an interesting year for baby names.  We’ll break-down first name fame by looking to Hollywood for explanations.

The Search: Baby Names

We civilians often look to celebrities for guidelines in all aspects of our lives. Who hasn’t gone gaga on the idea of weight loss after hearing Gwyneth sing the praises of the Master Cleanse and Kate Moss talk about not eating?  Often we transfer that admiration we have for pop culture onto our own creations.  Who can forget that year when everyone was naming their children “ESPN” after their favorite cable sports network or “You’re Fired” in tribute to Donald Trump’s TV catchphrase. This year is no different as it was announced that the top baby names for 2009 are a decidedly odd bunch, with Aidan and Madeline leading the way.  We here at OneRiot can only assume that the popularity of esteemed actors Aidan Quinn and Madeleine(sic) Stowe are responsible for this trend.  After all, in 2009 you couldn’t flip on cable TV without seeing this duo displaying their dramatic chops in films like 1987’s Stakeout and 1994’s Blink (or could you have?). While those two were tops of the name pop charts, there were a few other favorite labels parents enjoyed sticking on their kids for life in 2009. We’d like to take this opportunity to explore the reasons behind their popularity.

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Jayden/Brayden- This duo of sexually ambiguous names are an obvious tribute to Britney Spears’ comeback. Britney has a son named “Jayden” and “Brayden” is some weird attempt to combine Britney’s name with her son. Both names provide a rare dose humanity since Britney had this son with Kevin Federline and both names provide solemn reminders that we are all prone to making mistakes.

Jackson- One of the top names for boys this year, parents started naming their kids this en masse after Michael Jackson’s death.  They prayed that the King of Pop would be reincarnated in their children’s bodies, thus inspiring them to achieve superstardom.  (At the same time, these parents could only hope none of MJ’s weird tendencies would spring up.) (more…)

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We Aught to Be Ashamed

12/21/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Hot Topics

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The Story: 2009 has come and gone.  Here are a few areas we can still use some improvement in 2010.

The Search: 2010

Today is the Winter Solstice.  While it is the shortest day of the year and first official day of Winter, it’s also a solemn reminder that time remaining in this decade some of us refer to as “the aughts” is running out.  In a mere ten day’s we’ll be ringing in the 10’s and the previous decade will be but a footnote in history.  Sure, much has been accomplished in that span, but there have also been plenty of missed opportunities the likes of which we will never have back.  Rather than pat ourselves on the back by looking at the societal achievements of the past decade, we’re taking a rather sobering look at some things that just didn’t happen that must be corrected in the near future in order to give 2010 and beyond that onward and upward feeling.

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Flying Cars- All of the movies that we saw as children (but mostly Back to the Future 2) pretty much said that Flying cars would be a reality by now.  Sure, there’s a car that can be converted into a plane, but it’s not the same.  Instead our technological advancements have centered on the ability to give status updates from the toilet, rather than the ability to float around on a hoverboard or fly your pod to your cousin’s house in Arizona.  And has anyone even started working on home teleportation devices yet? C’mon, this is the 21st century. (more…)

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Happy New Year!

12/31/08 - Posted by Carmel Hagen under Industry, OneRiot News

Economic suckies aside, 2008 was a pretty fantastic year. Barack won the election, Fleet Foxes dropped their first full length album, OneRiot launched… 2009, you’ve got some big shoes to fill (and thank God, they are no longer Uggs).

Have a fun, safe night readers - we’ll see you next year!

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