17 hours ago

Seth's Blog When you're just starting out or when your organization is struggling or when the economy isn't hot, it's very tempting to take what you can get.You just graduated from law school and you have a lot of debt and the best job you can get is doing collections work. Should you take it?Your consulting firm is organized around pr (Read More)

14 hours ago

Submitted by Gadgetboy from Google Reader: One interesting (or not so interesting) part of statistics is that the numbers differ vastly based on who is measuring it. Recently, I had written here about Facebook users spending 8 billion minutes per day on the website. That is approximately 4 billion hours per month.That number was given by the social network company t (Read More)

16 hours ago

Submitted by Gadgetboy from Google Reader: We recently checked in at MobileBehavior's website and stumbled upon an interesting feature located on their contact page - a text-message business card as a complement to traditional paper versions. (Read More)

1 day ago

MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing As 2010 fast approaches, digital marketers are gearing up for yet another year of changes that will incorporate both the transformational and the incremental. From the economy's influence on the... (Read More)

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The Bad Pitch Blog We're all looking for something to take us to a better place-workwise, that is.How do we do that? Follow trends.When you’ve got one example, it’s a “noticeable situation.” When you’ve got two examples, it’s a fact. And when you’ve got three examples—welcome to a trend. A trend is something that is just happening—the way ads (Read More)

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MediaShift Over the years, many authors have tried versions of the online donation model, with mixed results. But one specific genre of writers, speculative fiction, seems to be experiencing a moderate level of success.Back in 2000, Stephen King became one of the first major authors to offer a book online using an "honor system" to so (Read More)

1 day ago

The Unofficial Apple Weblog Filed under: Software, Blogging, Internet Tools, iPhone, App StoreAfter a long wait, Squarespace customers finally have an iPhone app of their own. Squarespace is a hosted blogging/CMS service that competes with the likes of WordPress.com and Typepad. Having used all three, I can say that interacting with Squarespace (posti (Read More)

1 day ago

BuzzMachine Hey, Verizon (& Google & Apple & Dell & BestBuy….). I want to try the Droid but I am already in indentured servitude to AT&T for my iPhone (and have no particular desire to lose it). As much of a gadget geek as I am (I’m no Leo Laporte – my wife would’t let me be – but I do love the darned things), it’s still just not worth (Read More)

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MarketingVOX - The Voice of Online Marketing Inspired by the results of experimental social media campaigns, some major retailers are gearing up to roll out more elaborate social networking campaigns than they did last year. Though overall... (Read More)

1 day ago

mashable Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in others part of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever.And whi (Read More)

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WebProNews - eBusiness News, Search News, and Business Videos Consumers are more willing to engage with and buy from brands on social networking sites, according to a new study by Performics and ROI Research.The study found thirty-four percent of respondents who have used a search engine to find information on a product/brand after seeing an advertisement on a social networking site. (Read More)

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Boing Boing Michael Geist sez, "The latest round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (the secret copyright treaty) talks have now wrapped up with the usual bland press release confirming that the talks focused on Internet and criminal enforcement, indicating that the next meeting will be in Mexico in January 2010, and pledging to c (Read More)

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Gizmodo As the resident expert on the spork, I wholeheartedly endorse this super-rugged titanium folding combination bottle opener and spork design. [Tad Gear via The Awesomer] . (Read More)

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WebProNews Feed Last night on "30 Rock," Alec Baldwin's character got lost within New York's subway system, and due to being covered in bedbugs, received no help from his fellow passengers.  But if the same thing happened to him (or a non-fictional person) today, Google Maps could have come to the rescue.A post on the LatLong Blog announce (Read More)

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Gizmodo Photoshop! On Android! Adobe's free Photoshop app for Android is surprisingly just as slick as the iPhone's though it's missing all of the special effects, focusing on basics like saturation, exposure and cropping. Basics are fine—and we like what it does there—so our real gripe is that there's no adjustment for white balan (Read More)

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