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Free Wifi For the Holidays Is Catching On

You know I love free wifi and I already mentioned Google giving free wifi on Virgin America so I need to mention that now Microsoft and Yahoo are also providing free wifi at selected locations.  Microsoft is providing wifi at airports and hotels and Yahoo is giving away wifi access in Times Square.  In both [...]

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Lifestream Updates: Amazon.com Wishlists and Zune Playlists

One problem with Lifestreaming is that occasionally the streams that you’re trying to aggregate change their course and need to be reigned back in.  With my social media push I decided to add a few streams and in the course of this discovered that a few of my existing ones had gone missing. So I [...]

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Google Timeline Video

Last week I read someone’s amazement at how Google offhandedly launches new products and services that another company would make the key initiative for the year and Google seems to do it every few weeks. Here’s a video from Google UK of the company’s history and products from Stanford in 1995 to today and [...]

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What Facebook Needs In Order To Own Status Updates

This summer I wrote about how Facebook’s privacy settings could be the real game changer in their challenging Twitter and reversing the role of Facebook aggregating my Tweets to Twitter broadcasting the subset of my Facebook updates.  In that post I gave the following example of how the privacy settings could lead to this happening:
From [...]

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Updated BlackBerry Google Maps Application: Now With Layers

Last week Google updated the BlackBerry Google Maps application adding the layers feature.  You can download the application over the air at m.google.com/maps. I’ve been playing with it for a bit and here is a rundown on this handy upgrade to the application.
The layers feature is available in the Google Maps application menu.  When you [...]

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Use Social Media Like An Activist

I’ve already posted about what the 350 campaign is and the results of 350’s effort. They are a fantastic organization and what  particularly was impressive about their organization is the way that they used social media. Here are 6 of 350’s tactics that you should emulate  when creating your own social media campaign [...]

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I Love The XKCD I Love Video

I loved the original XKCD Loves The Discovery Channel cartoon and now NoamR has animated and expanded the concept for 1:04 of bliss.  If that ain’t some geeky goodness then I don’t know what is.  Enjoy.

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.
Now if only the Discovery channel will produce a show about people who love [...]

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Addictomatic For Quick Social Media Searches

Addictomatic is a nice little tool that I found out about the other day.  It’s a social media search aggregator that produces a custom webpage of the results and is great for a quick review of mentions of a term that you input across a variety of social media site.   For example, I did a [...]

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Early Holiday Present For Travelers: Free Wifi on Virgin America Thanks to Google

I love wifi access when I’m traveling and will go out of my for companies that provide it to me for free.  So Google sponsoring free wifi on Virgin America flights this holiday season is a present just perfect for folks like me.
Google and Virgin America are teaming up to bring you free in-flight WiFi [...]

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Inbound Marketing Summit 2009 Overview

After 2 days, 20 hours and over 70 speakers at the Inbound Marketing Summit 2009 I’m afraid that it took over a week to pull together my notes and links for sharing with the community.  It seemed that most speakers at the event spoke in bites perfect for the 140 character requirement of the audience [...]

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