Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved
A large number of aircraft and watercraft have disappeared over the years without a trace in the area of the western Atlantic Ocean (east of Florida and north of Cuba and Puerto Rico) known as the Bermuda Triangle or the Devil's Triangle. Many have attributed these disappearances to aliens, paranormal activity and other strange theories. Now scientists have discovered a more plausible cause for the...

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Social Networks Will Be Like Air
Charlene Li, social media analyst and co-author of “groundswell – winning in a world transformed by social technologies”, spoke on the future of Social Networks (slides are available on SlideShare, summary available at allfacebook) on March 6, 2008. She stated: I believe that in the future, social networks will be like air. They will be anywhere and everywhere we need and want them to be. And also, without that...

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Our Geosocial Universe [Infographic]
Jesse Thomas of award-winning creative agency Jess3 has been working through an infographic challenge: trying to accurately depict the size of the key players in the geo / social space and has created a handy visual of the size of the internet’s behemoths—including Skype, Facebook, Yahoo Mail—and new tech companies on the scene like Foursquare and BrightKite. The infographic also includes a visualization of each co...

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How to Use Social Networking Sites to Drive Business
Advice for small businesses on using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, and how to integrate these tools into the marketing and recruiting efforts of your company. Consider this: It wasn’t until 1997 that the Internet reached 50 million users in the United States. Facebook gained over 100 million users in the U.S. from January 2009 to January 2010, marking a 145 percent growth rate w...

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The Three Natural Laws of Social Media
The Three Natural Laws of Social Media You Can’t Fake Having A Personality. Be Yourself, be open, be authentic. You Can’t Automate Trust. Do what you say you will. Don’t worry about making mistakes, real people aren’t perfect. “We trust people whose inside values are visible on the outside.” – Liz Strauss Help others to help yourself. Think of others first, then they will think of you. Would you...

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Fiverr–What Will You Do for $5?
The things people do for $5 Fiverr is a new web service that let’s people announce the jobs they will do for $5. It’s a marketplace of $5 gigs – a starting point for those who want to take the first step toward success and making $ online. Why use Fiverr? Introduce your product or service to new prospects. Use it as a showcase for your skills. Drive traffic to your website or blog. ...

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12 Videos That Will Help You Love the Future
One of my favorite blogs is: Singularity Hub Keith Kleiner, AKA “Keith Singularity”, has a great post at Singularity Hub about 12 videos that give us reasons to love the future. “Most simply look neat, some are pretty freakin’ weird, a few are sublime. Enjoy.” Click the photo below to see the 12 videos: 12 Videos That Will Help You Love the Future at Singularity Hub follow Singularity Hub on Twitter ...

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Google’s Internal 49 Page SEO Report
Now you can learn SEO tips and optimization from Google which has made available for download a 49 page PDF entitled: Google’s SEO Report Card (released Mar 1, 2010). This report was actually prepared for in-house use at Google after doing a review to identify potential areas for improvement in Google’s product pages. These improvements could: help users find your pages more easily in search eng...

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Steal Eloqua’s Social Media Playbook
Joe Chernov (Director of Content for Eloqua), blogged recently about giving away the “Eloqua Social Media Playbook”, a 42 page guide to conducting business (and yourself) on the Social Web. There is something both thrilling and humbling about taking your best work, undressing it of all commercial value, and giving it away for free. But I am beginning to think the thrill outweighs the humility, bec...

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Social Networking Feels Like – Falling in Love
What is the “social glue” that adheres couples, families, communities and societies while acting as an “economic lubricant”? Why, it’s Oxytocin! – a hormone that is a neurotransmitter in our brains (AKA the hormone of love or the cuddle chemical) - it influences our ability to bond with others. Tim Kocher recently published at his blog a post entitled: Neuroeconomics – Social Networking “Feels” Like Falling i...

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The New Apple TV for $99–First Look
Apple today revealed it’s new 75% smaller Apple TV It fits in the hand and includes HDMI, 802.11n wireless, ethernet and built-in power supply, with the price slashed to only $99.00. The new Apple TV is much smaller than the previous generation because it no longer uses a hard disk for local storage. Flash memory has replaced the hard drive. It streams movies from iTunes, YouTube AND Netflix as well as ...

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YouTube – The Story

YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley

“How We Did It”

Chad was the speaker for June 2008 Startup2Startup dinner.

He told the story of how YouTube was started by the three co-founders – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. All three were former employees of PayPal who were looking for a solution to easily upload videos for sharing.

In October 2006 Google aquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion.

Chad was a designer at PayPal where he created the PayPal logo.

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12 Videos That Will Help You Love the Future

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One of my favorite blogs is: Singularity Hub Keith Kleiner, AKA “Keith Singularity”, has a great post at Singularity Hub about 12 videos that give us reasons to love the future. “Most simply look neat, some are pretty freakin’ weird, a few are sublime. Enjoy.” Click the photo below to see the 12 videos: 12

Too Late to Start?

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Cary Abbott is a 20 year vet of the U.S. Marine Corps, husband to the same woman for 24 years and a father of 3. He’s a social media madman who loves American Muscle Cars, Japanese Sportbikes, Native American Culture and believes there is a word somewhere that rhymes with Orange. Starting a

What Is The Future of Work?

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digg_url = “http://kentbeatty.com/2010/01/14/what-is-the-future-of-work/”;digg_title = “What Is The Future of Work?”;digg_bgcolor = “#FFFFFF”;digg_skin = “normal”;digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined; This post was originally published at TweetValley.com In the future, location will not matter… Say goodbye to cubicle nation… Think about this: The Future of Work is YOU!!! Wherever You are… If you

10 Great Web 2.0 Books

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Web 2.0 is changing how the world communicates and does business. Pick a book or two and broaden your understanding – Recommend starting with The Cluetrain Manifesto. (click on the book covers for reviews at Amazon.com) Groundswell – The Blog 5 More Books After the JUMP Related posts:GREAT Blogging Info —-> Rebecca Blood

Startups – Free Microsoft Software from BizSpark

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Microsoft has today unveiled their BizSpark initiative. Get software, support and visibility. Microsoft is hoping to seed Silicon Valley (both real and virtual) with future customers by providing a full kit of tools and software to software development startups for free (for three years.) This is a global program that provides access to

The Piano – Retrospective Life

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A Short Film by Aidan Gibbons Description: A touching retrospective of an old man’s life, based around the evocative imagery created by his piano playing. A very beautiful animation created by Aidan Gibbons, student at University of Hertfordshire.. Aidan Gibbons at imeem The music is from the French film "The Fabulous Destin of Amélie”

Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Now The Infinite Web

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An article by Scott Loganbill in the monkey_bites section of webmonkey reports that “As our economy sours more and more technologists are writing off Web 2.0 as dead.” Then he goes on to say, “We believe … the web is evolving. In fact, there’s no sign it will ever stop.” He also states that

Then & Now – Social Web

about 2 years ago - 1 comment

Simplicity to Complexity, from one connection to a social web explosion! Related posts:All Connected “The Machine is Us/ing Us: Web 2.0 in Under Five… Popular Global Social Networks We connect, relate, group and network: Facebook is Number 1… Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 – Comeback

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Remember Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000? The MST3K crew appeared during the NBC’s broadcast of the summer games sometime on August 17th between 4:00 PM and 5:13 PM Eastern Time ! They were static – no audio – and appeared to be coming from NBC rather than a

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