Submitted by Coachjeff:
Whole Foods Market will host another free holiday food sampling event this weekend at every store in the nation, including those in Orange County.
The food tasting is from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 14). (Read More)
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The Geek Media
Breathtaking and useful designs happen because the UI has been worked on tirelessly. It takes a real UI Master to understand how to make a terrific user experience on a website. Here are 10 extremely useful principles from some of the brightest minds in the User Interface field.User interfaces (UI) are what separate top-not (Read More)
Huffington Post
There has been much discussion about the creation of a Chief Technology Officer. I believe this is a very appropriate and necessary initiative that can make a stronger and better America. However, the CTO needs a framework to tackle how technology can achieve its potential. This should comprise five elements:1. Ensuring A (Read More)
Submitted by Coachjeff:
An interesting article on how ticketing companies are shaking up the music industry. It gives a pretty accurate information about the changes underfoot. (Read More)
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Submitted by Colide81:
Those are seven words President-elect Barack Obama is dreading but expecting to hear, friends and advisers say, when he takes office in 65 days.For years, like legions of other professionals, Mr. Obama has been all but addicted to his BlackBerry. The device has rarely been far from his side — on most days, it was fastened t (Read More)
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: If he were to continue carrying it, I would be more concerned that it would get stolen or lost. But it seem like there would be some form of security that would disable the unit on-command. Maybe that's coming later. Jim
social|median
User engagement on socialmedian has taken off dramatically since we launched "replize" about 4 weeks ago. Replize enables any user to post a comment to another user by including their @username in the reply. This makes a comment more of an ongoing public discussion and debate between users vs. just posting a comment to a (Read More)
: @Sina the idea is to include people in the conversation that you think would be interested. So, I may not have seen this post if Jason did not include me initially.
: @rpetty agreed with you. Pity you for the socialmedian story link you posted :D and can imagine what happened and can't resist LOL. @jasongoldberg yeah! the enhancement is cool and very friendly.
Submitted by Coachjeff:
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: "What are you working on?". (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
The good folks at Mozilla are trumpeting a new report by global analytics service Net Applications that documented a 20% global marketshare for two out of four weeks in October. It's a new high bar of popularity for the 2nd most popular browser in the world.Firefox is safe, standards compliant, extensible...and not made by (Read More)
: 20% market is great. It's just a shame I still need to open Internet Explorer to watch FLASH videos. I'll be discontinuing ANY use of FF if it's not fixed shortly which makes me wonder just how much market share they'll give back to IE with this continued issue.
: Not just CPU usage, if I have a flash app running in a while I find the mem usage is tops of 300 MB. I know we use GBs of RAM these days, but still 300 MB just for a browser is kinda large I feel.
Mashable!
Is there anything Twitter can’t do? Apparently, you can even use it to guesstimate the result of US presidential elections in certain states. This little chart below, although not graphically beautiful, is the result of some algorithms put together by Setfive Consulting. They’re parsing tweets to see if users ha (Read More)
: This reminds me of "Dewey defeats Truman". The US twitter community is significantly left-leaning, which automatically leads to bad polling data. I love twitter, but using it to predict political issues is silly, the majority of the twitter community are almost guaranteed to be democrats or at least left-leaning independents.
Submitted by Leolaporte:
The potential impact on our democracy is both thrilling and troubling. On the thrilling side is the potential for a long standing increase in the engagement of people in politics-- most notably, among the youngest voters, who have always been the least engaged. On the troubling side is the potential disintermediation of our (Read More)
: Obama has successfully combined community organizing and social networking technology. It would take a steep learning curve for the GOP to catch up to the new playing level.
Submitted by Michaelfidler
from Google Reader:
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly advice: Don't. And if you've already got one, pull the plug.Writing a weblog today isn't the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut- (Read More)
: Also found this in my RSS Feeds and found it true . Twitter marries quip, thought, insight and transforms them into modern maxims. Wish I was a wordsmith, too.
Submitted by Daisylinbluez
from Google Reader:
You can now send SMS text messages to anyone in your Gmail address book right from the Gmail website.Go to your Gmail Labs settings and enable the "Text Messaging (SMS) in Chat" feature. The facility is currently available only for US phone numbers. You can send (and receive) text messages via the embedded chat in Gmail we (Read More)