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In my continuing recap of 2009 as documented by our activity on search engines and social media sites here are the results from YouTube.  It wasn’t Barack Obama nor Michael Jackson, but Susan Boyle’s remarkable voice in a humble package (not to mention some great stagemanship from Briton’s Got Talent) who was the top video [...]

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Will that button/ animation/ etc. fall “below the fold”? If you’ve been in website design for any length of time you’ve asked or been asked that question and probably had a folder held up a designer’s large, beautiful, high definition monitor to show approximately where mortals endowed with older, smaller monitors will have the web [...]

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To follow up on the top Twitter trending topics of 2009 (which is quite a tongue twister that will get even worse next year) there’s also a list from Twibbon, the Twitter cause IDs for your avatar, of top “causes” on Twitter as measured by the most popular Twibbons. Breast Cancer Awareness Month – the [...]

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This year has been the year of Twitter. From  topping the search engine top searches lists, being the word of they year and doing some major deals with Google and Bing to provide a source of real time search.  With Twitter’s release of their top trends for 2009 you can see why this was the [...]

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TechCrunch is reporting that beginning this week Facebook will allow the publishing of status updates to Twitter. While for years we’ve been able to port our Twitter stream to Facebook as status updates, now we can make our status updates Tweets if we wish.  I’ve assumed, or at least hoped, that this was coming for [...]

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In reviewing the applications on my BlackBerry I’ve tried to be careful about always reviewing the most recent version of the application that I can run on my 8310.  I want to write about the latest and greatest features and, more importantly, I don’t want to look like an idiot and criticize something that has [...]

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With Facebook being the dominant social network and mobile social media usage increasing exponentially a BlackBerry application is crucial to provide access to the network and support updating.  Facebook has had a rudimentary application for awhile, but version 1.7 that was rolled out this summer evolved the app from providing the most basic access to [...]

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Being in marketing and living in Massachusetts naturally I had to post this, on Saturday of course since the language is NSFW.  Of course after writing that I realized that I’ve probably been involved in meetings with this level of language, so if you live in Massachusetts feel free to watch it in a conference [...]

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And It’s Free For Now! In my continuing obsession with wi-fi and modes of transportation, a friend riding on the Acela earlier this week reported that she had free wi-fi on the train from Boston to New York.  Evidently Amtrak announced the addition of wi-fi to the Acela in November, with little fanfare, as a [...]

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Google Sync is not so much an application for the BlackBerry as it is a utility.  It’s sole purpose is to synchronize you BlackBerry calendar and contacts with your Google Calendar and Gmail Contacts and it does that pretty well. The application home screen keeps you informed about the status of your sunchonization and the [...]

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