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Deals Out The Wazoo

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:03:24 +0000

There seems to be a never-ending supply of new ratings and deals sites lately. There's national sites like Living Social and Groupon and more locally based sites like PG Deals, CBS Local, DoubleTake Deals, and Google Offers just to name a few.

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Facebook mimics G+

admin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:16:18 +0000

There’s been a bit of buzz about Google Plus (G+) lately. Everyone’s discussing where they think it is lacking somehow or the features are just what everyone always wanted on Facebook or other services. Whatever you think about G+, Facebook has been paying attention. Since G+ came out, new features have slowly been sneaking

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Google+: The [insert service] Killer

admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:36:07 +0000

Are you on Google Plus (aka Google+ or G+) yet? What do you think so far?

Maybe it’s just me, since I’m not huge on video chat and haven’t tried Hangout yet and rarely open Skype, but to me Google+ isn’t a Facebook or Twitter killer. My mother isn’t on Google+, nor is she

Twitter: Male vs Female

admin — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:30:59 +0000

Someone tweeted an interesting link today. It’s a story from Forbes about women not being heard. While I’m not interested so much in the rant about women vs men, there are some interesting stats about Twitter usage by gender however.

The Twitter Gender Gap

According to Twitter, women are not being heard.In 2009, Bill

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Do you hashtag?

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:16:58 +0000

The New York Times’ has a great cultural study on the use of hashtags, both on Twitter and off. While I have seen them used online in many ways including for events and as humor, I was rather surprised by some of the offline examples given as I haven’t noticed this in my own

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Facebook In The News: It’s more than just privacy issues

admin — Fri, 20 May 2011 14:50:13 +0000

I seem to have a bad case of writer’s block lately. When I do think of a blog topic, and I don’t sit down and write right then, the idea is gone later. Facebook, as usual, seems to have been in the news a lot lately. Lately though, it has been for more than

The Fisticuffs Are Out: Facebook v Google & Microsoft v Apple

admin — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:59:31 +0000

Tech companies are coming out swinging at each other today starting with Facebook being discovered paying advertising firm Burston-Marsteller to place anti-Google stories out in the wild. (Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google) The fights continue with a lawsuit being brought against Apple in the issue of whether App Store can be

The Ubiquitous Twitter: What to do with it?

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:33:34 +0000

Twitter has become so ubiquitous that major news websites such as the New York Times, Telegraph, and Guardian have sections dedicated to news about the service and yet no one seems to know what to do with it...

Your Social Media Preferences: All-in-one or to each their own?

admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:53:52 +0000

With Twitter in talks about buying the highly popular TweetDeck (read the WSJ story here), a third party client used to post messages on Twitter as well as following other services including: Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, and Foursquare, I was wondering…what would happen in Twitter’s hands? Would TweetDeck become Twitter only? Do you

Custom Facebook Addresses

admin — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:50:03 +0000

Sorry for the delay. Facebook kept loading sans graphics for me yesterday, which made it a bit hard to get screenshots.

Have you seen the custom page addresses on Facebook, but don’t know how to get one? It’s simple, really. Get 25 people to Like your page and you can have a custom

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