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Do you have a Facebook Marketing Strategy?
Now that I am offering social network marketing services for my clients, I’ve been doing a great deal of research on the topic to help refine my marketing strategies. One of the articles that was most interesting to me was research conducted by Buddy Media. Buddy Media is a big player in the social network
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Nook Color CM7 Nightlies, Tablet Tweaks II and Dalingrin’s Overclock Kernel
3 Technology Lessons Learned From an Earthquake
I grew up in the Midwest and therefore far away from any earthquake fault lines. Now that I’m spending some time in Thailand, I experienced my first earthquake a few weeks ago. Fortunately it wasn’t nearly as devastating as the quakes that have rocked Japan over the past few months but it was jarring enough
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Nook Color with Working Bluetooth: Almost Perfect
So after rooting my Nook Color that came pre-installed with Android 2.1, and playing with SD bootable versions of Android 2.2 and honeycomb 3.0, I finally decided to check out Android 2.3 in the form of CyanogenMod 7. According to their “About” page, CyanogenMod is a “customized, aftermarket firmware distribution for several Android devices”. CM
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Topsy Beating Google in Social Networking Search
We all know that Google is the king of website search engines. But Google’s weak spot as of late has been in the social network arena. From Buzz to Orkut, Google just can’t seem to understand the social network market.
China Unicom’s WoPhone OS is a Blessing for Apple
The WoPhone OS is a Chinese-government backed operating system for smartphones and tablet devices that is said to be ready to go head-to-head with Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS.
Review of Nook Color Running Android 3.0 Honeycomb
I’ve been spending a great deal of time playing around with my Nook Color lately. As you may have read in an earlier post, I tried out running my NC with Android 2.2 Froyo but the experience wasn’t all that great. Since then, I simply have rooted the stock Android 2.1 and have been very
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Tablet and Smartphone Dinner Table Etiquette
I’ve been to plenty of lunches and dinners with various friends, family and business associates where the conversation hits one of those common yet uncomfortable lulls in the conversation.
My Take on the Rooted Nook Color
Provide Better SEO Today by Looking at Yesterday
As we enter December, it signals the end of another year on the web. Google's official blog recently posted an article titled Zeitgeist 2010 How World Searched to summarize the year in search.
The Future of Mobile Computing is in the Cloud
Mobile computing has grown by great lengths in the past few years and looks to continue that trend into the future. The mobile market is now filled with smartphones and tablets that are tasked with taking on more and more of our daily computing tasks. For those applications that cannot yet be run on smartphones
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NOOKcolor Has Been Rooted
It’s official…The NOOKcolor has been rooted so you can access the Android app store and install all your favorite Android apps. The instructions to root your NOOKcolor can be found here. I will get my NOOKcolor when I return to the States next month and will report back how the hardware functions. A couple of
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The Real Reason Apple Hates Adobe Flash
This seemingly strange feud between Apple and Adobe has been going on since the first iPhone launched. The iPhone’s Safari web browser did not come pre-loaded with Flash and Apple was adamant from the beginning that Flash would never be an option.
16 Christmas Gift Alternatives to Video Games for Kids in 2010
Everyone knows that kids love video games. They’re on nearly every child’s wish list between the ages of 7-17. But at some point, you have to wonder if kids play video games just a bit too much. So this year, instead of getting them another Xbox 360 or Wii game, consider these electronic alternatives to
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Palm Pre 2 Revealed
Palm has a great smartphone OS. It’s too bad nobody bought one. Perhaps with the HP merger of Palm fairly far back in the review mirror, the marketing department for the Pre 2 will do a little bit better job of promoting the newest Pre with webOS 2.0.
Is the BlackBerry Playbook Different From Other Tablets?
It seems that just about every major telecommunications and computer manufacturer is presenting their tablet this quarter. This week the honor goes to Research in Motion (RIM) and their BlackBerry Playbook. That’s great, but what does it bring to the table that is different from the others?
A Look at HTML 5 and SEO
At this point in 2010, web browsers are capable of supporting most HTML 5 code functions. In addition, there recently have been several published books that introduce and explore many of HTML 5′s new features. From an SEO point of view, there are new tags and content areas within HTML 5 that can help to
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How to Reliably Watch NFL and NCAA Football Online
Living overseas the past two football seasons has led me to do some thorough investigation into ways to watch both NCAA football and the NFL online while living abroad. There is a ton of information and possibilities available on the web but much of it leads to a dead end. There are both free and
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How to Tether Your iPhone to use Thailand’s 12Call Data service to Your Laptop
I have tested and confirmed that Thailand’s AIS 12Call data plan can be used to tether your iPhone to your laptop so you can surf the web using the phones data minutes. If you need to know how to purchase 12Call data plans in Thailand, please read this article.
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