Archive for November 4th, 2009
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A select group of Twitter users have been granted a new feature that’s been a long time coming. [ READ MORE ]
If you’re determined to shake down some deals during the mother of all U.S. shopping days, then forgive the cliche when we tell you there’s an app for that. Powered by dealnews, the just-released version 2 of their Black Friday app (iTunes link) adds a number of new features for bargain hunters. [ READ MORE ]
Two of the hottest trends right now are Augmented Reality and iPhone apps. Some iPhone apps like Yelp, Urbanspoon and Wikitude have utilized AR for the ultimate “ooh, that’s neat” type of effect. [ READ MORE ]
Sarah Evans is a public relations and new media consultant and speaker at Sevans Strategy. She also authors a PR and social media blog and is the founder of #journchat. [ READ MORE ]
Somehow we knew that the story about Larry Johnson, the Kansas City Chiefs running back in hot water for his barrage of inappropriate tweets, wouldn’t go away quietly. [ READ MORE ]
It seems like everyone wants to steal a page from Twitter and their Trending Topics. Not too long ago we saw YouTube introduce trending topics, and today Digg is announcing their very own version of the concept too. [ READ MORE ]
Google News is already a handy resource for staying informed on breaking news stories, but they’ve just become a news source that’s more dialed into your specific needs. Google News custom sections, launched today, empowers you to build your own section in their online newspaper rack. [ READ MORE ]
Throughout our extensive coverage Google Wave, we’ve discussed potential applications for the real-time communication platform, both for personal use and enterprise. [ READ MORE ]
With all of the excitement surrounding the Motorola Droid — which comes to Verizon on Friday — T-Mobile wants to remind customers that they are also dedicated to the Android platform. [ READ MORE ]
The legendary educational children’s TV series Sesame Street is celebrating its 40th anniversary. [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday, PayPal launched the PayPal X developer platform at its PayPal X Conference. Its goal: to become the medium in which financial transactions occur across the web. The eBay subsidiary hopes to do this by wooing developers into integrating PayPal into their apps. [ READ MORE ]
Are you a member of Amazon’s Associates program? If you are, you’ll be happy to know that sharing Amazon.com items (complete with Asssciates ID) on Twitter just became a lot easier. [ READ MORE ]
Could Twitter Lists herald a new form of real-time journalism that relies on up-to-the-minute curation of web content? [ READ MORE ]
Apple has officially reported what we figured out last week: the App Store now has over 100,000 apps. Keep in mind that the App Store didn’t even exist until July of 2008. So that’s 100,000 apps in about fifteen months. [ READ MORE ]
I’m a relatively new iPhone owner, having had the device since last summer. And yes, it was partly because I waited for Apple to iron out those little bugs and bring the platform to maturity. [ READ MORE ]
There are a lot of players vying to become your gateway to rest of the web: Facebook Connect, OpenID, Sign In With Twitter, MySpace ID, and Google Friend Connect just to name a few. It’s Facebook Connect however that seems to be leaving all of the other connect methods in the dust. This includes Google [ READ MORE ]
Several days ago we wrote about the Amazitter app. The iPhone application lets you browse Amazon products and then post them directly to Twitter from your mobile, while including your Amazon affiliate ID. So, if someone from Twitter clicked on your link and bought the product, you get paid. Now, Amazon has released their own [ READ MORE ]
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There are not many sites with good SEO jokes around. Half of them are lawyer jokes with SEO replaced in place of lawyers. So really enjoy these jokes l lot and I believe you will like a lot of them if not all. I have kept them one liners or lesser than 140 chars to [ READ MORE ]