The Obama Campaign was successful in using social media to inform, gain, and mobilize voters. Awhile back I collected a bunch of the ongoing...
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SpaceShuttle Commander Tweeting from Space
In June astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander Mark Polansky will be heading to the International Space Station for mission STS-127. The mission will be to deliver and install the final two components of the Japanese Experiment Module. As part of that Mark will be updating the mission live over twitter. He is also putting...
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A Little Break from Cyberspace (well most of it)
In 6 days it will have been a month since I wrote a post to brown-paper. Not that nothing has been going on it was just good to step a way for a bit. The time without this radiation machine sitting on my legs has allowed the hair to grow back to it’s full...
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What Are Your 5 Favorite Sites?
My 5 favorite sites has been replaced by my network of friends and followers on Twitter. Following people from different professions and industries
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“American Recovery and Reinvestment Act” in Action
Information on the changes to the COBRA program for the unemployed. These benefits come as part of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act". If you know anyone who has lost recently lost their job and must pay for insurance, they should read this.
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Live Tweeting (no, not the Oscars)
Sitting on my couch at 1:44 am, thinking I shouldn't have taken that 3 hour nap at 7pm; my mindless ESPN watching was interrupted by a tweet from @NASA: "OCO launch update: Liftoff is now set for 4:55 EST. Catch it on www.nasa.gov/ntv". This was a lot more interesting than watching the rerun segment...
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Twitter’s “Suggested User” Feature
Twitter has been incorporating a new feature called "suggested user". When an individual signs up on Twitter one of the first things they are presented with upon completion are suggested users. Twitter co-founder Evan Williams explained that, "The reason we created this feature is because lots of people sign up to Twitter but aren't...
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Twitter Remote (beta)
Twitter Counter recently released a widget called Twitter Remote. Twitter Counter is a great utility that shows you how you are trending on Twitter. It shows you if you are losing followers, adding followers, projected numbers based on increases etc. It also allows you to compare you stats against another user and if your...
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Facebook spins on a dime over TOS
From a consumer perspective I think it is great that FB listened and reacted so quickly. From a business perspective it makes me wonder about the corporate flip flopping.
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Great sports related campaigns Nike and NBA
Over the last year there have been a lot a lot of really good sports related ads. The NBA and Nike in particular have had real success. In my opinion these are some of the best sports related ads. I just wish baseball could do as good of a job, instead of those FOX...
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The tipping point, too many social networks!
So I finally hit it, the tipping point. I have too many networks to keep up with. Now I don't sign up and use a service just because it is new. I will check it out, but I definitely need to find value in the service. With that said I have hit the limit...
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