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How A New Era Of Smartphones & Apps Will Change The Way You Shop

Two weeks ago a good friend of mine grilled me about the Motorola Droid. She wanted to make sure it had GPS, a native maps app, Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace like the iPhone. She wanted to surf the web “all pretty and stuff” and shop online. Her last requirement helped me understand how smartphones and [...]

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How To Keep Up With New Connections At Large Conferences

Last year at SxSW, a lot of networking went on. I had the opportunity to meet some great people like Wayne Sutton, Louis Gray, Chris Brogan,  Lynne D. Johnson, Brian Solis, and Drew Olanoff. It was pretty easy to find most of them, but I’d like to share a few tools I used to connect [...]

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Learning Social Media: A Blueprint Of The Perfect Mobile Social Network

Kudos to Marjolein Hoekstra (@cleverclogs) for passing on the awesomesauce headline! If you love the things I tweet (@corvida), then she’s someone you need to be following.   After finding the joy in Brightkite, a location-based social network, I began to realize how important location-based services and mobile social networks are becoming. I absolutely love [...]

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The BrightKite That I Hope To See…

In my post “Using Social Media to Get Out of Your House”, I recommended some great social media tools and services that I use to get out of my house. However, one particular service I told you that I’d save for another post. Why? Because Brightkite has so much potential, that I’d only just begun [...]

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Why Location Based Social Networks Need To Offer Something Different

Today on FriendFeed, Tamar Weinberg posted a message on FriendFeed about giving up on Brightkite. I asked Tamar what she was getting out of it to begin with and she replied, To be honest, not much. I forged one real life friendship out of it, so that was cool — it was fun to share [...]

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