Daily Archives: June 10, 2012

TagsInAction is the perfect way to track a hashtag all over the web

June 10, 2012
TagsInAction is the perfect way to track a hashtag all over the web

I’m a fan of using hashtags all over the web. I’ve been known to even use them in text messages and in real life conversations. Yes, it’s sad, but the emergence of the hashtag has helped us track conversations over multiple platforms on the web. This site, TagsInAction, allows you to search multiple social...

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Every New Product Apple Is Going To Announce At Its Big Event This Week (AAPL)

June 10, 2012
Every New Product Apple Is Going To Announce At Its Big Event This Week (AAPL)

Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images See Also The Best Products Apple Has Ever Announced At Its Annual Summer Developers Conference Apple, Please Add This Simple Feature To My iPhone! SPY SHOTS: Here’s A Sneak Peek At What Apple Will Announce Next Week Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will kick off Monday with a...

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The 8th Most Popular Password In The Country Is A Really Naughty Word

June 10, 2012
The 8th Most Popular Password In The Country Is A Really Naughty Word

AP See Also FOR BEGINNERS: Everything About Setting Up Speed-Dial Contacts In Your iPhone Toshiba’s Excite Tablet Is The First Device To Make Me Care About Android Check Out Google’s New Simple, Elegant Chrome OS For Desktops In light of the recent LinkedIn security breach, there’s been a lot of attention on password...

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Google’s New Chromebook: Much Improved, Still With Limited Appeal

June 10, 2012
Google’s New Chromebook: Much Improved, Still With Limited Appeal

The first generation of Google’s Chromebooks worked fine, but few people would have ever described these browser-centric laptops as excellent. Sure, they had some great features, including long battery life and very fast boot-up times, but they never caught on with consumers. For the most part then, they were relegated to being used in...

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A hard drive in slow motion is truly a sight to behold [Video]

June 10, 2012

Unless your computer is fancy and sports a Solid State Drive (SSD), it likely contains a hard drive of the spinning disk variety. That’s alright; those quickly moving metal circles have been the norm for nearly as long as computers have existed. Punch cards, eat your heart out. A neat group on YouTube, The...

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Read all about it, Lekiosk launches its beautiful newsstand in the UK

June 10, 2012
Read all about it, Lekiosk launches its beautiful newsstand in the UK

Hold the front page. lekiosk, the digital newsstand launches in the UK today. Could an app like this help to improve business for print titles? The 3D news app is on approximately one in four iPads in France and is the highest grossing app for the Apple tablet in the French App Store. Those are...

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From Zombies vs. Gladiators to TV industry revolutions, here’s the week’s media news in review

June 10, 2012
From Zombies vs. Gladiators to TV industry revolutions, here’s the week’s media news in review

Read it and weep Amazon’s Kindle may be the poster child of the eReader market, but Canadian competitor Kobo announced triple digit growth this week, with eBook downloads up by 400% and eReader sales rising 160% year-on-year as the firm gears up for a year of expansion. The Toronto-based company also chose this week...

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Cloud is a state of the business, not just IT

June 10, 2012
Cloud is a state of the business, not just IT

In my last blog I posited that cloud and by extension cloud management was a strategic versus tactical activity and as such should have the appropriate people involved in definition gathering and decision making for a variety of reasons. Now, I’d like to cover several examples of why cloud management is strategic in nature...

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If Facebook ads don’t work, it’s the fault of advertisers

June 10, 2012

The ‘speed bump’ versus search ad comparison is an interesting one. Back in time, in the age of black and white television, it was possible to book an ad across the three major broadcast networks, and hit, at once, a simply massive percentage of the US population. That was the ‘speed bump;’ it was...

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Twitter Uses Its First TV Ad As An Opportunity To Launch Hashtag Pages

June 10, 2012
Twitter Uses Its First TV Ad As An Opportunity To Launch Hashtag Pages

Twitter launched its first TV ad Sunday, and it was all about NASCAR. But beyond just getting the attention of NASCAR Twitter followers, the ad is also meant to show off what brands can get if they partner with the social network. Based on what we’ve heard, we’re pretty sure the ad Twitter ran...

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