Posts on ‘November 4th, 2008’

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Businesses, individuals, and organizations will, from time to time, make honest mistakes or in some unfortunate cases, intentionally support unethical decisions to dissuade or conceal something significant from its public.
Whether it’s an oversight or a matter of deception, savvy companies usually employ and deploy a crises response team to prepare for, manage and [...]

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November 3, 2008 - 8:26 am PDT - by Mark Drapeau 5 Comments

Dr. Mark Drapeau is an Associate Research Fellow directing the Social Software for Security (S3) project at the Center for Technology and National Security Policy of the National Defense University in Washington, DC.
The day after the presidential [...]

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by Simon Owens, November 3, 2008
In a YouTube video uploaded on October 24, a husband and wife couple from Oregon sit at their kitchen table and fill out their mail-in voting ballots for the 2008 election. The wife explains to the camera that Oregon has had mail-in voting for “about the last [...]

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ovember 3, 2008 - 12:03 pm PDT - by Andrew Warner 28 Comments

Andrew Warner is an Internet entrepreneur and the founder of Mixergy.com.
I’ve interviewed Robert Scoble several times about how to become Internet famous because I’m dying to get some fame. I know it’s not the kind of thing I’m [...]

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by Robin Wauters on November 3, 2008
Remember Adonomics (formerly Appaholic), the fishy analytics directory website for Facebook applications that we uncovered was used to pimp a service (the UADA, dead and buried now) from the same people who backed them (Altura Ventures), by ranking them as the biggest Facebook app creator [...]

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by Greg Kumparak on November 3, 2008

As the entry fee for smartphones drops lower and lower, the wallet friendly price point found with most feature phones (or, as some might say, “dumbphones”) is beginning to lose its luster. In a day when obtaining a smartphone requires little more than 50 bucks [...]

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Company
Widgadget
20-Word Description
Widgadget is the community portal for widget creation and distribution. It wishes to popularize widgets for users, bloggers and brands.
CEO’s Pitch
Widgadget is designed to help users, bloggers, brands and agencies spread their content exponentially, to get more websites/blogs traffic and to improve brand loyalty. It enables all users to see the best widgets [...]