Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes

Never Give Stores Your ZIP Code. Here's Why - Forbes
  How does this work? In one of their brochures, direct marketing services company Harte-Hanks describes the GeoCapture service they offer retail businesses as follows: “Users simply capture name from the credit card swipe and request a customer’s ZIP code during the transaction. GeoCapture matches the collected information to a comprehensive consumer database to return an address.”  In a promotional brochure, they claim accuracy rates as high as 100%.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider

Rich YouTube Stars - Business Insider: There are 10 independent YouTube stars who made over $100,000 in the past year, according to a study done by analytics and advertising company TubeMogul.

Friday, June 7, 2013

Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff

Intel's Museum of Me Creepily Curates Your Facebook Stuff

 Your Museum of Me is a white structure located in an unidentified utopia space far beyond city limits. There's a green open field, a shallow pond and clean white pavement surrounding your incubator-like museum. To enter, just click.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Google+ outranks Twitter as no. 2 social network after Facebook | PCWorld

Google+ outranks Twitter as no. 2 social network after Facebook | PCWorld:
Google+ is now the world’s second largest social network, outranking Twitter that comes in at the number four position. But both social networks are still far behind Facbook, which is used by more than 51 percent of the world’s online population, according to a new survey.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Vine finally comes to Android phones - CNN.com

Vine finally comes to Android phones - CNN.com:
Android smartphone owners can finally stop trading dirty looks with their iPhone-carrying friends: Twitter's increasingly popular Vine six-second video and creativity app is finally available on the Android platform.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Flickr Redesigned, adds New Android App and 1 Terabyte Free Storage!

Flickr Redesigned, adds New Android App and 1 Terabyte Free Storage!:
The new update fills up nearly all the blank space with a mosaic of images with large, high res photos prominently displayed. The navigation is revamped as well and the whole thing looks and functions like a dream.

Of course, if this doesn’t bring the masses back to Flickr, the Free Terabyte of Storage will!

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Instagram Food Porn Leads to Capture of Identity Thieves

Instagram Food Porn Leads to Capture of Identity Thieves:
 Food porn on Instagram is ubiquitous. That is to say, pretty much everywhere you look someone's posted a meal for one reason or another. It's the perfect tool to show off how lovely your burger looks before devouring it. If, however, you're an identity thief trying to avoid getting caught by the law, perhaps it's a good idea to not take photos of food at your clandestine meetings.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Google Plus analysis: Users, brands prefer Facebook and Twitter | BGR

Google Plus analysis: Users, brands prefer Facebook and Twitter | BGR



Steven Alvarez

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Google+ has a better community of subscribers IMO. Only use Facebook because everybody in family is on that crap. Other than that I prefer g+ over any social network at the moment

Monday, April 15, 2013

Housing Trends, Short and Long Term - NYTimes.com

Housing Trends, Short and Long Term - NYTimes.com

In assessing long-term price trends, he says, prospective home buyers ought to emphasize fundamental factors like inflation and construction costs, which he discusses in his first column. While inflation creates the illusion that real home prices are increasing, rising productivity in the construction industry often drives down the cost of housing.

Friday, April 12, 2013

The delusions that companies have about the cloud — Tech News and Analysis

The delusions that companies have about the cloud — Tech News and Analysis: To me, it didn’t matter – we were down for 40 minutes or so, and that sucked. I checked Heroku’s status page, and figured out what had happened, and what they were doing to fix it.

But all I could really say to our users was “we’re waiting as fast as we can!”

Friday, April 5, 2013

4 Social Media Tasks for the New Job Seeker - Resumebear Online Resume

4 Social Media Tasks for the New Job Seeker - Resumebear Online Resume
 Social media can be an amazing tool for the job seeker and can help them accomplish a lot of great things. But, what do you want to get out of using it? Want to connect with a new mentor? You need to make the first move to get a conversation going. Want potential employers to be able to find you based on your skills? Spend some time elaborating your accomplishments in you’re “about me” section.

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Your Money - Rental Investment May Seem Safer Than It Really Is - NYTimes.com

Your Money - Rental Investment May Seem Safer Than It Really Is - NYTimes.com: Jack McCabe, a real estate consultant in Deerfield Beach, Fla., said he had never seen large investors purchase so many homes in one fell swoop, giving them such great sway over pricing in the market. “A lot of the price increase is not due to a market that is getting healthy, but is due to the influx of hedge funds, and a high percentage of homes are selling at artificially inflated values,” Mr. McCabe said.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Dow passes intraday trading record; markets seem undaunted by Washington gridlock

Washington Post

10 Things You Shouldn’t Do On A Social Network

10 Things You Shouldn’t Do On A Social Network:

 I see Pinterest ‘pins’ that wouldn’t be out of place in an adult magazine; and I see Twitter conversations that would make a sailor blush. While members of Congress and the Electronic Frontier Foundation still worry about privacy, everyone else seems to have thrown caution to the wind.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Social Odours... More to know... - To Join a Blogging Site or Not to Join...

Social Odours... More to know... - To Join a Blogging Site or Not to Join...

 In addition, these sites provide a kind of instant community of fellow bloggers who can provide advice, insight, and feedback. These established sites often keep directories of their members, which can be great news for your traffic logs because it means that other bloggers on the site will find out about your pages.

However, there are also some downsides to linking up with a large blogging site. By posting within the established templates of a site like blogger, you run the risk of having your blog look and feel like everybody else's. T

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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Link Your Social Networks | CAREEREALISM

5 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Link Your Social Networks | CAREEREALISM


Automated Posting

When you sync your Twitter with your Facebook, your Twitter updates appear automatically as status updates; you can’t select which ones appear on Facebook. Due to the advent of Twitter, most people post status updates on Facebook with less frequency. These updates tend to be more substantive than those on Twitter, which tend to be posted according to speed as opposed to clarity of meaning.
Frequently updating your Twitter-synced Facebook might aggravate your friends by cluttering their feeds with trivial observations and complaints. Furthermore, if linked to a professional network — a profile your employers see — you might end up embarrassing yourself or endangering your employment with the wrong message.

AT&T, Google Among The Biggest Online Advertisers — comScore | TechCrunch

AT&T, Google Among The Biggest Online Advertisers — comScore | TechCrunch: For example, comScore found that 31 percent of ads in the study were delivered but never seen by consumers, presumably because people scrolled past before the ad loaded, or because they never scrolled down to see the at in the first place. comScore also found that 72 percent of campaigns ran at least some ads next to content that the advertisers said was not “brand safe”.

The Present Shock Of The Harlem Shake - Forbes

The Present Shock Of The Harlem Shake - Forbes: The Harlem Shake meme has a simple form: with the first 30-seconds of the song “Harlem Shake” by the DJ and producer Baauer in the background, a single person does something in the presence of others (who act as if nothing is happening,) and then all of a sudden everyone is doing something together.

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

France's richest man sends tax warning to Hollande - FRANCE - BELGIUM - FRANCE 24

France's richest man sends tax warning to Hollande - FRANCE - BELGIUM - FRANCE 24: The financial landscape for billionaires appears much more amenable in Belgium with its lower tax rates, and unlike France, its neighbour does not have fortune tax. This may prove too tempting for Arnault, according to Afschrift.