social networking

Time For Some Fun – My New Site Celebrating Technology Failure – Tech-Fail.com

May 25, 2011
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Last week I decided that I needed a bit more fun in my life, or if you look at it another way, to add some more workload to my already busy day. Since I cover technology all of the time in the form of reviews, how-to’s, fix-it’s and other musings, often with a family spin, [...]

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How to Pre-Populate Twitter Status Updates the NEW Way via Links & Web Intents

May 18, 2011
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About a year and a half ago, I posted a “How To” article to teach people on how to tweet out messages from your website via a URL or web link. Unfortunately, that method no longer works as of a few days ago. Twitter has updated the process for doing this. However, I now have [...]

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LocalMind Makes Social Check-ins Engaging, Interactive and Helpful

May 9, 2011
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We all know about social check-in services like Gowalla, FourSquare and even FaceBook Places. These services allow you to announce that you are at a particular venue, event, company or location, quickly and easily all via your mobile device. With some, the more places you go, the more credibility and achievements you get (e.g., badges). [...]

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IMPORTANT: Enable SSL on your Social Media Accounts NOW! – Twitter and Facebook

March 16, 2011

As hacking into people’s accounts has become a “clear and present danger“, it’s important to note TWO quick and easy configuration settings that you can now enable within both Facebook and now Twitter that can make your Social Media account just a bit more secure. While it won’t protect you from other types of hack [...]

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Ok, I Bought A New Car, Now What? But First, A Little More About The Buying Process

October 20, 2010

A few weeks ago our 2001 Honda Odyssey died. The transmission on our 10 year old family shuttle that had “only” 130,000 miles conked out, for the second time. It had served us really well until the last year or so, and then it had developed an expensive habit of relentlessly having to visit the [...]

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Buying A New Car? Here’s My Shopping Strategy with my own Dealer Incentive!

September 29, 2010

This past weekend, the transmission of my 2001 Honda Odyssey died. The car has over 130,000 miles on it and has done a fairly good job raising our family. It sort of reminds me of the latest “Modern Family” episode (see “The Old Wagon“) where they just can’t seem to part with the old family [...]

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“Where’s the Pause Button” – TweetDeck’s User Stream Preview is Real-time Web

August 2, 2010

I was lucky to be one of the first 5000 people to get access to test out a new version of TweetDeck called “User Stream Preview.” In this preview build is the ability to use Twitter’s new Streaming API which essentially turns the Twitter firehose on full blast. In the past, you were at the [...]

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Wrapping Up the AT&T “Lose the Laptop” Challenge – A Retrospective

July 27, 2010

We are now in the final days of voting for the AT&T Lose the Laptop Challenge. It has been an interesting four months writing about different topics and how they relate to the HTC Tilt 2 smart phone. You can see all of my articles on the Lose the Laptop site here. But I thought [...]

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