Increasing Your Quality of Life with Tech
Russian ice-skating team Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin took the ice in what appeared to be brown tights with white designs painted all over them. The costumes were also decorated with leaves around their wrists and knees, ropes around their waists, and red cloth. The routine and costumes were, according to them, was based on […]
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They went from an online video community to a Twitter client. Now, Seesmic has released Look, a Windows application that claims to immerse you in the real-time web. I’ve been playing with it for a day or so and I have to admit…I’m quite confused. Seesmic Look is supposed to be geared towards those people who […]
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Foursquare and Yelp Got Beef?
On the 15th, Yelp stepped into Foursquare’s arena, introducing a location check-in feature in it’s new iPhone app. Competition is usually a good thing though, pushes innovation. In this case, it looks like Yelp did a little more than provide some competition. In a post on his Tumblr blog, Foursquare co-founder […]
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Social networking site Tagged has announced today that they will be donating $50,000 to the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. Last time we covered Tagged, they had beat Twitter in a Neilsen poll which ranked social sites based on how long users spent on them. Last week, they announced they would donate a maximum of $25,000 […]
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Wibiya opened to the public a little while ago, providing the opportunity for the average blogger to spruce things up and possibly increase page views. This works by providing visitors with valuable tools integrated directly into your blog, keeping them engaged with your content. In other words, it makes your blog or website stickier.
In this […]
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Almost as soon as the crisis in Haiti occurred, the word came out that you could text “Yele” to 501501 to easily donate money. This resulted in over 2 million dollars being raised by the organization to aid those in need. As is usually the case when this type of money is involved, some decided […]
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Facebook by Email
Millions of people, prevented from accessing Facebook at work, can now rejoice as Facebook now lets you reply to comments via email. Honestly, I have no earthly idea what took them so long. As much as Facebook spams your inbox with notifications, one wonders why they’re just now turning this feature on. Remember […]
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Magpie is one of the many services out there that will pay you to tweet for them. I’ve been using it for a while now and definitely can’t complain. You probably won’t make enough to pay your mortgage, but a little gas money just for doing what you already do is worth it. In this […]
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In a pretty slick move, the social media site Likaholix leveraged their existing user base and database of user likes and morphed into MyLikes. The difference between the two? With MyLikes, you can turn your preferences and opinions into cash. Your Likes have the potential to become targeted PPC ads that are actually relevant to […]
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Developing your own Google Chrome extension is surprisingly easy. You might think you need all types of development skills and coding knowledge, but it’s really no more difficult than creating or tweaking a web page. If you know HTML/CSS and are somewhat familiar with Javascript, you can have a simple extension up and running in […]
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Pearl Jam Exchanges a Tweet for a Song
You might not see the power of OAuth or even know what OAuth is. On it’s face, it let’s you connect your Twitter account to 3rd party apps in one click, but it also makes it simple to make a somewhat intimate (technically) connection with your audience. Pearl […]
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Hootsuite calls itself the “professional Twitter client” and for good reason. The interface is clean, it doesn’t hog your resources, it’s fast, and it’s packed full of features that can help anyone from the novice to the business professional manage not only their Twitter account(s). They also have advanced integration with Facebook and LinkedIN so that you can pretty much manage your entire…
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TwellWishes is a brand new web app that “allows you to send well wishes to your friends on Twitter for occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, promotions, or whatever you’d like!” Twitter doesn’t really provide a method to learn details about the people who follow you. Standard procedure is to simply follow them and monitor their tweets, but by the time you notice it’s their birthday, it’s…
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One of the best things you can do to spice up your online content is to add visuals. It’s not as hard as you might think. Even if you’re camera shy, you can still share visuals of the things around you or related to what you’re talking about.
Photo Sharing Sites
There are quite a number of […]
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NY Stops Selling the iPhone…Temporarily
The AT&T website has stopped offering phones to the New York metropolitan area, and entering a zipcode from there delivers the message that it is “unavailable” in that area, according to a blog report. AT&T is continuing to sell iPhones in NYC stores. Not sure why AT&T would ever want to stop […]
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