Reddit Has Taken Over Digg

No Comments 30 August 2010

The Digg staff must be going absolutely mad today. After launching the much anticipated version 4 of Digg.com last week, the site has experienced a fair share of bugs. This is understandable though due to the sheer volume of visitors the site experienced during the relaunch. Long time user of the site have also revolted [...]

All Posts, Gaming, Mobile, Social Media, Technology

Building A Gaming Layer On Top Of The Real World

No Comments 20 August 2010

In the last decade Facebook has connected 500 million people socially. Twitter has us connected over 100 million people in realtime. Now Seth Priebatsch CEO of SCVNGR wants to add a gaming layer on top of all that social data. Priebatsch believes this to be the start of the gaming decade. In his TEDTalk he [...]

All Posts, Apple, Mobile, Social Media, Technology

Week In Tech: NASA 747, Facebook Places, iPad 2

No Comments 20 August 2010

The location wars are heating up as Facebook challenges Foursquare with its new ‘Places’ initiative. On World Tech Update this week Facebook introduces a location based service, Twitter creates the Tweet Button, Intel plans to buy security vendor McAfee, a Taiwanese newspaper reports that Apple is readying a new tablet similar to its iPad, a [...]

Social Media, Technology

Twitter Launches Official Tweet Button

No Comments 12 August 2010

Twitter further the reach of its information sharing service today with the launch of its own Tweet Button. Working in close coordination with the ubiquitous retweet service Tweetmeme, Twitter will now track the stats of your tweets whether it is sent from the main site or a third party client. Several key features of the [...]

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Twitter Down: Facing Major Outage

No Comments 05 August 2010

Twitter has fallen down and can’t get up. I’ve seen many Twitter failures in the last few years, most times the service is fixed quickly and at least a few tweets get through. Not so today, none of my desktop clients have access to the API. Tweetdeck and Hootsuite are out for the count. Below [...]

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How Groupon Reached Its Inflection Point

No Comments 30 July 2010

Andrew Mason CEO of Groupon shares his personal account of the early days of the group discount site. Mason recalls what it was like to first prove the Groupon concept in Chicago, and consequently expand the business to several cities across the US. Learn How Groupon Works! from The Point on Vimeo. Twitter users click [...]

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Kanye West Joins Twitter

No Comments 28 July 2010

Kanye West finally made the decision to join the tech revolution. Yesterday he performed “Chain Heavy” from his fifth album at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, CA. Today July 28, 2010 the outspoken rapper joined Twitter and shared a message that he’s taking meetings in Silicon Valley. Is Mr. West getting into the startup biz? [...]

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How The Walk Across America Levi’s Ad Was Made

No Comments 27 July 2010

It seems that Old Spice isn’t the only consumer brand out there that gets viral marketing and social media. Levi’s has created a new internet sensation via their ‘Guy Walk Across America’ ad. During the course of a 14 day shoot, the team utilized a blend of live action and stop motion animation techniques to [...]

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Twitter CEO Evan Williams Speaks At Tokyo Tweetup 2010

No Comments 26 July 2010

Over the weekend Twitter CEO Evan Williams attended the Japan Tweetup 2010 and revealed some World Cup stats showing that Japan soccer fans pushed the site to its limits. During the Japan vs. Denmark match 3283 TPS (tweets per second) were hitting the network setting a new all time record for Twitter updates. No wonder [...]

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Twitter Follow Friday Leading Ladies 03

1 Comment 23 July 2010

Thanks to these wonderful leading ladies my Twitter stream is never dull. On any given day they bring me: Words of inspiration New music selections The latest in tech news Great conversation Sound blogging advice Best practices in web design The latest trends in social media Follow these leading ladies and I guarantee you’ll never [...]