Archive for October, 2012

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Horrible Histories and All That Chin Chin

Horrible Histories is a great example of using YouTube to repurpose content that originally aired on tv. This series of shorts from the BBC aims to educate not only the young, but I suspect the populace at large. I certainly learned something.  Children’s BBC comedy series based on the best selling books written by Terry Deary and illustrated by Martin
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Facebook Reaches One Billion – Accounts

After months of bad news from Facebook, finally it has something good to say. On October 4, 2012 Facebook announced 1 Billion users (say that with the Dr. Evil overtone – One beeeeeliooon) Or does it. I am wondering how many of the 1 billion accounts are real. Does that number include those who have now left and there fore
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Note to Apple: Shove Your Self Grandios QT

Nothing pisses me off more than unexpected rudeness. The person in front of me buying a scratch and win, then scratching it then ordering another – its not a casino bud. Or how about my nice surprise of having my system halt just because I had not changed my home page from apple.com on Safari. I like using a Mac,
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Forever Does Not Compute

I don’t know if you have noticed or not, but the forever scrolling has ceased on Facebook. Thanks sweet Molasses. I never did like that fill as you go option and would say to any client with confidence that it is a trendy thing like the <BLINK> tag.

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Sorting with Facebook Interest Lists

A great feature on Facebook allows you to sort pages and friends by lists, similar to what you can do on twitter. 1. When you are on a Page or Friend Profile, click on Like or Liked. BTW you can also hide these streams from your newsfeed this way. Now choose Add to Interest Lists… 2. You can add a
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PinPointing with Zappos

I don’t think I need to see the numbers to show me that Pinterest is most popular with women who focus on design and fashion. Zappos, Amazon owned eclothier, has launched a new service callled PinPointing. Basically they segment the service in two ways. You can look at the Pinterest users pins, or enter a username such as yourself. Either
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Getting a Job in the Social Age [Infographic]

I feel that one can never be told enough to manage their social profile. You never know when you might find another opportunity or worse, have to look for one. Employers are looking beyond LinkedIn to find out what you are all about.  

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How Much is to Much Media Ownership?

Bell Media is becoming a bit to omnipresent in our lives. And there is growing concern as to how much media is controlled by one company. Rick Mercer helps to show how you can swab the takeover to find out if Bell’s expanding reach has taken its effect. . From Wikipedia: Bell Media’s largest division is Bell Media Television, which
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