Monthly Archives: September 2008

Survey: companies should give a Tweet, join social web

Via ARS Technica By Jacqui Cheng  | Published: September 29, 2008 – 11:55AM CT Most Americans feel that companies should have a presence on social media sites, and many feel that they should actively interact with customers through those sites. … Continue reading

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SocialVibe Helps You Make a Difference With Sponsored Social Giving Network

Via Mashable September 26, 2008 – 1:41 pm PDT – by Leslie Poston  SocialVibe emerged six months ago as a new way to drive money to your favorite causes online. It combines the power of building an online network of … Continue reading

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C-SPAN debate hub embraces bloggers, social media

Via ARS Technica By Julian Sanchez  | Published: September 26, 2008 – 07:48PM CT As Barack Obama and John McCain square off in Mississippi tonight, cable channel C-SPAN will be providing searchable, embeddable clips of the debate, accompanied by realtime … Continue reading

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RealScoop Tells You When Politicians And Celebrities Are Lying

Via Tech Crunch RealScoop Tells You When Politicians And Celebrities Are Lying by Don Reisinger on September 28, 2008 Have you ever wanted to know when politicians are lying? A startup called RealScoop thinks it can nail it down for … Continue reading

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How to manage out of date content

Via Gerry McGovern On the Web, nothing is more damaging to your organization’s reputation and brand than out of date content. On Monday September 8, 2008, a story about a UAL bankruptcy began circulating on the Web. (UAL is the … Continue reading

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Webcaster Settlement Act Passes House Vote, Senate Call up Next

Via Mashable September 28, 2008 – 7:55 am PDT – by Paul Glazowski Add a Comment It took a concerted effort by Pandora, plus a fairly substantial level of public attention at the grassroots, as well as some lobbying by … Continue reading

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Motorola Building Up 350-Person Android Team. Nokia Also Sniffing Around.

Via Tech Crunch by Erick Schonfeld on September 28, 2008 The iPhone may be the only game in town for serious mobile Web developers right now, but that won’t last long. Next year, the iPhone will see some serious competition … Continue reading

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Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking

Via The New York Times By ALEX MINDLIN Published: September 28, 2008 In the fourth quarter of 2007, American cellphone subscribers for the first time sent text messages more than they phoned, according to Nielsen Mobile. Since then, the average … Continue reading

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TiLR: Robotic Telepresence For When You Just Can’t Make the Meeting

Via Tech Crunch by Devin Coldewey on September 28, 2008 Teleconferencing can be an impersonal affair — all your subordinates just staring at a laptop screen, and on the screen is a window, and in the window is a smaller … Continue reading

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Vysr Supports OpenSocial Apps and the User-Centric Web

Via Mashable September 29, 2008 – 5:04 am PDT – by Doriano “Paisano” Carta Vysr has announced support for OpenSocial applications via their RoamAbout browser plugin. This means you’ll be able to access any OpenSocial Web app no matter where … Continue reading

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