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Why Twitter Is My Personalized Search Engine

Mike Arrington is right, it’s definitely time to start thinking of Twitter as a search engine. I’m going to tell you exactly how powerful Twitter’s search data is and why you might want to start using Twitter’s search engine a lot more than Google.
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For the past three day’s because of Twitter, I’ve been [...]

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How Mobile Location-Based Services Will Improve Your Social Life

I love mobile social networks! More specifically, I love Brightkite. With Yahoo’s Fire Eagle, and Google’s latest introduction into location-based applications (Google Latitude), it’s pretty obvious that mobile social networking is slowing but surely gaining a lot more market penetration.

Will these services take off?
Will mainstream catch on?
Will they be useful to even you?

Here are [...]

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4 Reasons To Not Increase Your Followers On Twitter

Following over 700+ people on Twitter can become one of the most tedious and time consuming tasks of social networking. People are constantly following you and unfollowing you. All you really want is for people to stick around, the opportunity to build your very own micro-community, and for people to listen and be listened [...]

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Why Web Ads Shouldn’t Be More Like Commercials

To get straight to the point: time!
Can you imagine seeing the following ad in a video you’re trying to view? How about on one of your favorite websites? How would you honestly feel about it? What if you had to watch an ad every time you viewed a video or clicked on a link? [...]

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Why The Entertainment Industry Might Want To Pay More Attention To Twitter

Don’t believe me? Gossip Girl, a school-drama TV show similar to the O.C., premiered a new episode tonight. As the show carried on for a full hour, it became a new trend on Twitter. Most of the tweets are as expressive as can be about tonight’s episode considering the 140 character limit. Check it out [...]

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Is There Nothing More To Write About?

Today, along with someone else, I came to the conclusion that there’s just nothing to write about anymore. Of course there are numerous things to write about, but nothing that I’d love to write about.      
The passion behind discovering new and innovative services is gone. Why? Because very few [...]

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The Community Is What Makes Social Networks Different

If you’ve ever tried to explain to a friend the difference between their Facebook status and Twitter, tell them it’s the community.
There are tons of social networks to hop aboard these days. From Facebook to Myspace to Twitter to Friendfeed to Bebo to Identi.ca to Plurk. There’s almost too many to name and most [...]

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FriendFeed: My Content Portal & Aggregator

I love social media. Within said field, Twitter would be my tool of choice for a lot of things. The conversations are great. The people are great. The community is excellent. The content is awesomesauce. However, there’s one service that has Twitter beat hands down when it comes to content & to some degree [...]

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Obama’s Inauguration & Future Of Technology

Today the entire world had the opportunity to witness Obama’s Inauguration. To be honest, I missed the speech due to lack of sleep, but I caught everything that came right after the speech courtesy of CNN HD on DirectTV.       
However, before tuning into CNN I tried Ustream.TV’s iPhone app that [...]

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Quality Information & Knowing Just Enough

It seems there are a gazillion startups that aggregate data for us. We seem to have a never ending hunger for data and information. Where we once depended on storytellers, bards, poets, painters, writers, journalists, we now want to know everything written by anyone. Official information providers long thought they could keep a monopoly on [...]

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