Archive for the 'Web' Category

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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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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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GoDaddy Going Down Has Big Implications

When I log into this blog, I am presented by a qualifier developed by Sweet Captcha which also stops auto spamming of this blog. Since this is a plug to the WordPress CMS, I am not alone in using this clever and fun qualifier.   Yesterday however, I was not able to login to post a new entry. Without the
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Submit Dog for Public Shaming

I have to admit, sometimes being a dog owner is hard. Like when my dog Wilbur ate my latest book I was reading. Or the socks. Or the remotes or…well you get the picture. Now there is a site dog-shaming.com that allows you to shame your mutt. And in the process get a bit of group support – through a laugh
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Is your website ready for cross-device holiday shoppers?

Today I am just getting back from vacation, but received this in my inbox. I thought it important enough to share with you all. Last year’s holiday shopping gave birth to “couch commerce” shoppers—people using tablets as their preferred device for shopping. Because of this, online retailers are under pressure to ensure that their web properties are optimized for all
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#NBCfail Spawns a Plethora of Help

  American broadcaster NBC is getting a lot of flack for not seeing the storm on twitter coming their way with regard to their decision to delay broadcast Olympic events. This means that you have to hide your head in a bucket of sand if you want to watch an event to find out who won, as the results are
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Parking the Parking Douche

Russia has a real problem with parking. I mean a major one. One where douche’s park where they want. Using an app called Parking Douche (not sure about how this is English vs. Russian), you can take a photo of the car and publicly humiliate those who park with no concern for others. Another great example of how social media
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Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Threatens Independant Websites

  The following is important enough that I am reposting part of the article Signing the TPP agreement will lock down our Internet and shackle our democracy. What should we do? from OpenMedia.ca. Click through to read the full article and to support individual rights online. Yesterday, the government put Canada’s digital future at risk by signing on to the
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For Those About to Blog – We Salute You

Social Media Examiner posted a new article today about blogging entitled “4 Ways to Create Content That Sells”. I found this to be a great read and the link is below, so I will not labour the point and go through it point by point, however there is one part of the article that stands out to me. The article
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