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Initial iCloud Thoughts

As expected Apple jumped into the cloud-based music game yesterday when Steve Jobs announced iCloud. While I download iTunes and update my iPad to try out some of the features that are available now, here are a few thoughts on the announcements. It’s about time that there will be iPad synching via wifi. The mere [...]

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Review: Music Beta By Google

Last month Google announced their cloud-based music service Music Beta by Google, why it isn’t Google Music or GMusic I don’t know, because no one is going to be calling it by a name that is meaningless when shortened to 2 words and what happens when some day it is out of beta? Music by [...]

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The Cloud-Based Music Service Of My Dreams

These are exciting days for cloud-based music services. Amazon launched their Cloud Drive in March. Then Google rolled out the Google Music Beta at their I/O Developer Conference. And of course all signs point to Apple announcing iCloud or some similarly named cloud-based music service soon, perhaps in a couple weeks at its Worldwide Developer’s [...]

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FutureM: October 4-8, 2010

If you are a marketer in Boston next week and interested in the future of marketing, especially digital marketing you have a great opportunity available to you because all next week is FutureM. FutureM is a series of events put on by agencies and marketers around Boston on everything from social networking to mobile marketing, [...]

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You Are Not A Gadget

Language defines, or at least provides structure for our thoughts and therefore our actions. A language without singular pronouns is probably used by a culture that sees the world as made up of groups. How would this culture act versus a culture whose language uses the first person singular pronoun in every sentence? Would one [...]

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2010 State of the Internet Video

This 2010 State of the Internet video is along the same lines as “Did You Know” videos, plenty of stats on the internet, email and social media sites as a video infographic with an electronic beat. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fttrumble.com%2F2010-state-of-the-internet-video%2F’; addthis_title = ’2010+State+of+the+Internet+Video’; addthis_pub = ‘TTrumble’;

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Topeka’s Google Gamble

Mayor Bill Bunten of Topeka, Kansas this week moved  to rename his city Google, Kansas for the month of March as a stunt to secure their selection as the location for testing of Google’s ultra fast internet infrastructure and receive the jobs, investment and who knows, tourism, that goes along with it. Interestingly Topeka means [...]

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I Hate Artsy Website Navigation

I found out last week that I have become something of a web design stick in the mud.  It was because of my friend Eddie Perez”s review of JimCarrey.com.  Fittingly the design and user experience of the site is as unique as the actor and as Eddie puts it, The site was clearly designed to [...]

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Airline Wi-Fi Availability Chart

More wi-fi travel news.  Jaunted has a nice little chart with details on the status of wi-fi for the airlines in the United States, availability, provider and cost.  Their report on the subject also includes details on the crucial AC outlet at your seat in order to make the most of that wi-fi access. Your [...]

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Most Watched YouTube Videos Of 2009

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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