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Archives for May, 2010

American Idol Brings Out Raw Emotion In Latest YouTube Hit

Today one woman’s outrageous reaction to Lee DeWyze winning American Idol is climbing the YouTube charts.  The woman, who was clearly rooting for Crystal Bowersox, demonstrates some of the rawest emotion ever to hit the web video streams.  “I hate you!” she screams at the television screen.  “My whole life is ruined!”  Who knew it …

6 Awesome Social Features In Today’s Facebook Games

Having played nearly every social game I’ve seen for the last few years, I’ve come to notice a few games that raise the bar on making a game social. By this I mean that certain games provide an experience that really lets you interact with your friends in a special way, something different than the …

Facebook Status Update: Becoming a Technological Lock-in

I'm sitting here looking at Facebook because, well, isn't everyone? Reuters had a piece recently on how Facebook is on the way to becoming a "technological lock-in" on a par with the QWERTY keyboard."I think Facebook is the most valuable Internet commodity in existence, more so than Google, because they are positioning themselves to be …

The Social Networks and Blog Overload Madness

No doubt you already belong to one of the social network sites the likes such as Myspace, Yuwie, Facebook, Direct Matches, or one of the dozen others that have sprung up like mushrooms. You will probably have received some sort of e-mail from a buddy or someone telling you to join one right away because …

Help with Internet Research using profiles from LinkedIn, UK and Ireland?

Hi, I need to research the following via Google or Yahoo! We have a data integration solution for Salesforce.com customers called Informatica Cloud. This is the market leader etc and if we can get through to people who are either responsible for or administer their company’s Salesforce.com implementation, we can usually have a meaningful conversation …

Spotlight – LinkedIn – Bloomberg

Social Networking Sites – Interview with LinkedIn CEO Reid Hoffman (Bloomberg News)

Great Ideas to Outsource LinkedIn

One of the important tools of any professional individual is LinkedIn. It keeps people from all sorts of industries connected. If you have exerted an extra effort to build your network, LinkedIn is sort of a directory of all the people you came in contact with. You can find updates and important information about them, …

A Slap In The Facebook

Don’t poke granny’s boyfriend, BEE-ATCH!

Facebook Monitoring by Dr. Mark D. Yates – Business Consultancy

As the business consultant at “Business Consultancy One Stop Shop” frequently asked about Government Big Brother intrusion into our business lives. Those advocating even closer scrutiny and increased surveillance always cite the same reason, i.e. “if you are doing nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear from increased government intrusion.” Ask any security or …

Celebrity Twitter Overkill: SuperNews!

Twitter’s blowing up, in this sequel to Twouble with Twitters, when celebrities take over the twittersphere. Starring Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Perez Hilton, and P. Diddy as themselves. Watch more SuperNews! www.current.com www.facebook.com VIEW more SuperNews! clips & SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube Playlist here… www.youtube.com