February 2010

Could Twitter’s New Features Kill 3rd Party Clients?

by Kevin Nunez February 28, 2010
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Twitter is bringing some big changes to their website according to a Tweet from Alex Payne, a Twitter engineer. As a matter of fact, the features may be so good that people may want to consider using the website again and ditch their 3rd party (mostly Adobe Air) Twitter clients. This could mean an array [...]

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Facebook Stopping Application Notifications March 1st

by Jeff Weisbein February 28, 2010
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Recently Facebook posted on their blog that will no long send notifications from Facebook apps to users.  My response?  ”FINALLY!  Thank you very much Facebook!”.  I’m sure you are all in agreement with me on this one.  I am constantly bombarded by Facebook app notifications on Facebook – it is quite the annoyance.  Facebook plans to [...]

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News from the Nintendo World Summit

by Adam Landreneau February 28, 2010
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This past week, on February 24th, Nintendo held their annual World Summit conference in San Francisco. Every year, Nintendo introduces or talks about the most anticipated games and/or consoles of that coming year. This year, all sorts of juicy news came out for Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M. They also unexpectedly introduced [...]

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The Facebook Page Problem

by Jeff Weisbein February 27, 2010
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Facebook Pages are a great tool for branding, promoting, interacting, and other various aspects of social media there is no question about that.  However, with all that good, there are some real problems with Facebook Pages that I would like to see fixed.  The two major problems I have seen to date are the inability [...]

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Google Buzz: Controversy and Privacy Concerns

by Jeff Weisbein February 23, 2010
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Google Buzz (our overview) the new social networking platform introduced by Google for all Gmail users (excluding Google Apps) has been out in the wild for nearly half a month (14 days). Since the launch of Google Buzz, it has met much criticism resulting in a very shaky beginning.  Facing an enormous amount of controversy over the [...]

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How To: Value Your Website

by Jeff Weisbein February 20, 2010
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I have received this question a few times, “how much is my website worth?” and one of the most common misconceptions is to base your websites worth on traffic statistics alone. There are several other factors aside from size, traffic, ranks, etc that need to be included in the mix when determining the worth of [...]

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Facebook Now 2x Faster, Is It Really?

by Jeff Weisbein February 19, 2010
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Yesterday, a Facebook engineer made a blog post under Facebook’s engineering notes outlining the ways some Facebook engineers decreased the load time of Facebook effectively making it 2x faster.  In past I have discussed why page load times are important and it is apparent that Facebook gets it too.  They had been working on these [...]

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Mobile Wars: Apple vs Google

by Jeff Weisbein February 18, 2010
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It all started back in mid to late 2009 when Apple rejected the Google Voice application from the App Store.  Shortly there after, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google resigned from Apple’s board.  That is when this whole mobile war started to quickly heat up.  I should point out that while Apple and Google do compete [...]

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Meebo for iPhone Review

by Jeff Weisbein February 17, 2010
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Meebo recently launched their latest product – Meebo for iPhone.  It is a free download in the App Store too which makes it much more appealing than the $15 (now $6.99) Beejive application (which I bought and have used for quite some time).  If you are unfamiliar with Meebo it is a free online service which allows [...]

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Pingle Review: Use Ping.FM On Your iPhone

by Jeff Weisbein February 17, 2010
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Just about a year or so ago, a website called Ping.FM came out (our review) that allowed you to send status updates or mircoblogs to numerous social networking sites around the web at the same time. Since then it has grown to support many more social networking sites and also has its fair share of [...]

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