Think Social Media is a Fad?

This great video, used as promotional material for the upcoming book Socialnomics, drives the point home with lots-o-data. Social Media is a force to reckon with, businesses need to understand it or go home. Social Media Revolution

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Keep track of your loyalty cards with Card Star

Card Star is an application that keeps track of your loyalty cards. I was one of the thousands of people that helped propel this application into the top slots in the iTunes store. It was featured in an Apple ad and I grabbed it. The point is that you never have to remember your loyalty [...]

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AIM Client for the iPhone

Another in the series of articles on iPhone apps I’ve used. This is the official AIM client from AOL. The latest version adds push capabilities. If you only use AOL for IM this is a great application. For me though, I’m on about three different networks. I’m looking for a better IM client. Any good [...]

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Faces – Great iPhone Speed Dial Application

In this first of a continuing series of articles of iPhone Apps I’ve tried. I’m doing a quick write-up of Faces. Faces gives you one button access to a list of favorite phone numbers. It’s called faces because the buttons in the user interface can consist of pictures of the people you want to call. [...]

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iPhone Micro Reviews

Over the next few posts, you’re going to see a bunch of lame-o reviews of iPhone applications. This is not so much to wow the reader with my ability to concisely summarize my experience with these applications. It’s mainly so I remember which apps I’ve tried and which, quite frankly, suck.

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Palin’s Farewell Speech as read by William Shatner

I wasn’t the only one who was confused by Sarah Palin’s farewell speech. Luckily William Shatner can lend some clarity.

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Pandora draining iPhone battery

Two days in a row I’ve woken up to a dead iPhone. This isn’t so bad but I generally like to have a working phone while I’m on the road. The first day this happened, I wasn’t sure of the cause. Today, I’ve figured it out. It’s the Pandora client. I don’t think that the [...]

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iPhone OS 3.0 Noticeably Slower

I like many people eagerly updated the iPhone OS to version 3.0 the day it was released. I did it mainly for the copy and paste functionality. I noticed however, that once I did this my phone no longer performed as well as it did before. This performance hit has taken a couple of forms. [...]

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White Roofs can reduce Global Warming

It’s an idea that is so logical, it’s amazing that it wasn’t thought proposed sooner. Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a physicist, has proposed that we start building white roofs and replacing black top with concrete colored blacktop in order to reduce global warming. Scientists say the idea has merit. It’s great that we finally [...]

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Import tables from websites into Excel

I have found what has to be the coolest Firefox plugins ever. I often spend hours scouring the web for bits of information that I need to bring into other documents. Many times, I’ll want to bring in a web table to Excel. This is often met with frustration and a lot of manual tweaking. [...]

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