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What if there was a way to “send” a smile to a complete stranger? Well now there is, with a new web app called “Two of Us” created by the Barbarian Group. How does it work you ask? Simply take a picture with your computer’s webcam. And if you like it…. But no cheating! [...]
On Saturday evening, I was doing what I usually do – check up on blog feeds, twitter, and the like. And given that it’s nearly Christmas, of course all of the feeds were dominated with… SALE! FREE SHIPPING! BUY ME! LOVE ME! ETC! However, I found something different admist the noise of consumerism — a [...]
Every day we find things, see things, hear things, that inspire us. We find them both offline and online. But the hardest part is organizing, saving, categorizing, and remembering these things. Long is past the days of ripping out paper copies of things from magazines and putting them in a binder. C’mon – digital, baby. [...]
MeetMeme, a company that specalizes in promotional “trading cards” sponsored the cards for the #socialrecruiting summit in Seattle (Microsoft) campus on Monday, 9/13. These cards, which have been featured at the Mashable Summer Tour, were a HUGE hit at the summit – it’s an easy way to find out where someone is located, waht they [...]
Couldn’t agree more. //via sfweekly Posted via email from lifestream de techyness
How do I spell it? How is e-reader correctly punctuated? Is there a space in between these words? These are questions that have plagued the social media/digital geek community ever since these technologies became an extension of ourselves. But who has it worse is the journalist population… and I know this for two reasons – [...]
Do you ever think back to the days when you couldn’t just google, bing, or wolfram alpha an answer and have an instantaneous answer along with an infographic to back it up? I was in a discussion yesterday regarding the concept of “Contemporary IT” and how it relates back to both our personal and [...]
via RandomSarah.com In watching this video from the #140 conference this past week, I liked this video because it helps to showcase the impact of social media on the job search. I think that recruiters are starting to look into the best way to find top quality candidates using twitter — i.e. what you say [...]
Today, we’re all over the place. Not just in a busy sense (well, that too), but also in a digital sense. We leave our footprint (Foursquare checkins, Facebook wall posts, Tweets, Blog posts, Comments, Yelp Reviews etc..) all over the ‘net. We share where we’ve been, where we’re going, what we did, ate, thought and [...]
There are tons of videos out there with statistics on Social Media – and I understand why – with the number of people who seem to still be opposed to this revolution, the creators of these videos have to keep pushing out new content in order to bring a few more to the “dark side.” [...]