By Ian Sherr

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Balancing checkbooks and relying on paper bank statements is so last century.

Over the past two years, websites such as Mint, Buxfer, Geezeo and Wesabe are wooing users with powerful online money management tools and the promise of access to their financial information from anywhere in the world.

And it’s working.

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By Ian Sherr

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – If the Phoenix Lander comes back to life on Mars, Twitter users could be among the first to know.

NASA gave the historic Space Age mission an Internet Age spin by adding a Twitter page, enabling the robotic interplanetary explorer to answer the hot micro-blogging website’s trademark query: “What are you doing?”

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By Ian Sherr

“We all have fond memories of playing Monopoly, Scrabble and Connect Four when we were kids.  But when you’re an adult, it’s really hard to find people who can dedicate the time to play.  After his friends and family turned him down for a game of Risk, Ian Sherr went in search of more *worthy* opponents at Board Games night at Games of Berkeley.”

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(By Ian Sherr. Originally published December 4, 2008 on the air with KALX’s North Gate Radio, here.)