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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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Twitter’s False Trends: Promoted Hashtags

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:07:42 +0000

I must admit, I don’t check the list of Trends on Twitter very often, but a couple of days ago I did and I noticed something. Twitter now has promoted hashtags on the Trends list. This, to me, goes against the very idea of a trend. Trending means something is popular and in this

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 & Relationships: Seriously??

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:03:44 +0000

As a user of Facebook, I have to admit to being surprised at how much the site affects people’s relationships. A recent blog post on the site All Facebook includes an infographic stating 60% of people on Facebook post their relationship status and noting the fact that if someone changes their status from single

Email Spam: CAN-SPAM & What constitutes spam?

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 14:00:00 +0000

I recently attended two business events where e-mail and spamming was brought up. There were brief discussions on what constitutes spam, but no resources for finding out more about the CAN-SPAM Laws were presented. Most attendees were small businesses new to the web, who understandably may not be aware of these laws, or know

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