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Very interesting article in different ways to use Twitter for you benefit. Gives you some great ideas, and explains some nifty tricks used by Twitterers. (Read More)
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I read a lot of blogs. Starting from the ones in my reader, and fanning out to the ones my friends and friends of friends recommend on FriedFeed. I tend to follow the links of those who link to me - when Technorati has a good day - and those recommended by the writers I enjoy in their posts. You get the idea.Having had ex (Read More)
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Jason FallsWhen people ask me the difference in marketing today versus marketing 10 years ago, I normally say something like this:“The American, and even world, consumer got tired of being talked at and has demanded to be spoken with. Corporations were monolithic buildings, logos and brand names. You can’t have (Read More)
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The National Association of Home Builders has released their Housing Opportunity Index covering the most and least affordable cities in the country. Here's a quick rundown of the top 10 metropolitan areas with a population over 500,000. (Read More)
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Asus, which kickstarted the netbook market with its Eee PCs this year, is taking some tough decisions. The company will stop production of the 8.9-inch models this year, says Digitimes and instead of slightly larger devices.The move should come as no surprise as buyers want greater ease of use than what really tiny screens (Read More)
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Launching April 5th, 2009, Nintendo releases it's third version of it's little behemoth that could, the DS. This version, the DSi, includes larger screens, two cameras, and a completely overhauled Wii-like interface, available in blue and black. See press release for more details. (Read More)
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The Most and Least Facebooked CountriesAccording to Facebook demographics obtained this month, Iceland, the country with the highest percentage of Facebook users, shows an astonishing 43% of the total population using Facebook, meaning that according to Facebook’s statistics, almost half of Iceland’s 305,000 residents are o (Read More)
DS Fanboy
This info may be boring to some... but the real WIN is the photo included with the article.Quoting Joystiq: Situated in the Minami-ku district of Kyoto, this new plot of land secured by Nintendo is 40,000 square feet and a $138 million labor of love. With the building rights secured last year, Nintendo has not divulged any (Read More)
Submitted by Nigelwalsh:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo (WFC), which received $25 billion in taxpayer bailout money, is planning a series of corporate junkets to Las Vegas casinos this month.Wells Fargo, once among the nation's top writers of subprime mortgages, has booked 12 nights at the Wynn Las Vegas and its sister hotel, the Encore Las Vegas be (Read More)
: @slipstream agreed - headlines - don’t you love them! There is always a place to reward and recognise good people, especially now in hard times. It's slightly different to the Citi Bank jet scenario.. but all the same, with public money in these organisations - they are very much open to more public scrutiny..
Mashable!
Version 4.0 of Skype has arrived, with a host of new features including full-screen video calling and a revamped instant messaging system. While a few new bells and whistles sound nice, what I’m most interested in about the new Skype release is the claim that “call quality is substantially improved.”. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
It might take a few more years, or it might happen suddenly, but trends appear to indicate that the time when Internet Explorer is used by the majority of people on the web will soon come to an end. New numbers from analytics firm Net Applications put IE at a mere 67.5%, having dropped more than 7% last year. The bulk of (Read More)
: As the great Marc Presnky points out there is a vast differential between the fluent and new to the net - digital immigrants vs digital natives is massive. And even the natives are not properly taught to search the net. Time to look to education. Not browsers. Then at least we can all make an informed decision about browsers. Personally I am a recent chrome adoptee. Ex Flock.