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Foursquare formally launches 'Foursquare For Business' today

2009-09-21T21:23:04Z

Foursquare is a location-based social game and activities finder that lets users describe and discover activities that are nearby where they hangout. Played mainly on mobile phones like the iPhone and Android-based phones, Foursquare started by ...

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YouTube allows non-profits to overlay donation buttons

2009-09-21T15:32:38Z

I was catching myself up on Beth Kantor's blog this morning and found out in a guest post by Michael Hoffman that YouTube was now allowing members of their Nonprofit Program to embed overlays at any point in their videos that allow viewers to go ...

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Facebook launching Persian translation tonight

2009-06-19T15:48:43Z

Facebook's continued interest in being a part of the political dynamics in Iran has lead to them pushing up the launch of their Persian language translation of the entire Facebook site to tonight. They also would, undoubtedly, like to catch some...

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Was the timing of the new Facebook search beta influenced by events in Iran?

2009-06-17T15:40:08Z

Undoubtedly, Facebook needed feed search and public profile/page search just for functionality sake. And, undoubtedly, it was feeling pressure from Twitter addicts/researchers/marketers/reporters to have information remain relevant beyond the co...

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Facebook starts beta of full feed searching this morning. Finally!

2009-06-17T06:13:00Z

Facebook is starting beta testing of new search functionality that covers pretty much everything posted by your friends and pages you are a fan of (basically anything that could appear in your feed). It also covers everything published by anyone...

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Ramona Quimby: The Children's Theater Company is just so darn good!

2009-06-04T15:54:24Z

I had the great pleasure of seeing the stage production of Beverly Cleary's 'Ramona Quimby' at the Children's Theater Company (CTC) in Minneapolis Minnesota. I've probably seen 10-12 plays there and every time I am blown away by the quality of t...

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All my calls belong to Google Voice

2009-05-13T02:34:41Z

I'm switching all my various phone numbers to my Google Voice number. I am not at all good at checking my voice-mail in a timely manner. And that is not good business and is not fair to friends and relatives either. But until now there has been...

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If that's your real name...

2008-11-20T08:27:13Z

Interesting. Jennysmith806 (if that's your real name!) just posted a comment on my post "e-Strategy online marketing site goes live!". 'Her' comment was entirely plagiarized from from an Australian government site called e-strategyguide (a guide...

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Fake Whois used in DDoS

2008-04-30T05:54:47Z

I ran into an interesting, and troubling, situation today where some folks I know received an email informing them that their domain was being used in a DDoS attack on a website in Australia. The really weird things was that the website listed in...

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What the heck is Scarlet...?

2008-04-17T02:11:10Z

For the past two days ads have been popping up all of the interwebs, on TV and (reportedly) in print for some new series called Scarlet. Check out the website and trailer. The Web site is very high quality, the ads are on expensive sites (Yahoo,...

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