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Interesting Social Network Stats [Consumer]

June 16, 2010

Mashable tossed out some interesting stats the other day regarding the internet, the consumer and social networks. 75% of the world Internet users visit social networks. The average user spent 6 hours on social sites in April of 2010 I think they’re interesting numbers. I used to enjoy Facebook because I could hook up with [...]

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Starbucks To Offer Free Wi-Fi Nationwide [Consumer]

June 15, 2010

Coffee drinking consumers rejoice! Starbucks will start offering free Wi-Fi in it’s stores starting July 1st.  No registration needed.  No account required.  No time limit!  Starbucks Wi-Fi has just become useful. Finally, Starbucks has caught on to the idea that if it’s free, people will come along and hang out. McDonalds did it successfully as [...]

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Deleting AIM Participants in GMAIL Chat [Consumer]

June 11, 2010

Deleting GMAIL Chat Accounts Under your Gmail control panel, have you ever wanted to clean out your Gmail AIM Chat list but could not for the life of you, figure it out completely? I thought I’d toss out a little help here if you, the consumer, ever come across this how-to article since I couldn’t [...]

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Resolving Choppy Google Earth for My System

May 23, 2010

After upgrading to a super-turbo charged computer system lately, I had noticed that Google Earth was running choppy for me.  Zooming in under Google Earth was choppy and painful to work through. When Google Earth first got choppy, I tried everything that everyone else was suggesting to improve performance.  Many of the bulletin boards and [...]

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Facebook: When Privacy Strikes Back

May 13, 2010

A serious blow to Facebook’s privacy issues may have just occurred. In an ironic turn of events, private IM’s or “instant messages” from CEO and Founder of FACEBOOK Mark Zuckerberg may have been leaked, and they do little to dispel Facebook’s ongoing privacy issues. Nicholas Carlson, reporter for SILICON ALLEY INSIDER, has posted a transcript [...]

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FCC Threatens The Internet Again; The Obama Admin Wants to Help [Opinion]

May 8, 2010

After a federal appeals ruling previously put the FCC on a tight leash regarding the internet, some thought all was OK for the moment.  But “for the moment” was exactly what it was. Now the Obama Administration (OA) is looking to reclassify the Internet to it can better be brought under the auspices of the [...]

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FACEBOOK, Taking Your Privacy One Trick at a Time [UPDATED]

May 1, 2010

On Friday, April 30th I brought up my Facebook page to check on my family and friends, but heck, my first deed interacting with Facebook was to dodge the sharing of my profile with every page I’ve ever become a fan of. Are you kidding me?  This consumer isn’t fond of the idea.  Let me [...]

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Gift Cards for Mom on Mother’s Day; Thanks Anna Jarvis!

April 29, 2010

Gift Cards for Mom on Mother’s Day: Sometimes when Mother’s Day comes around, I just don’t have the time to get out of the office or home to help celebrate some of the more relished holidays of the year.  Amazon saves this consumer‘s backside time and time again with that ordeal so that WHEN I [...]

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Google Street View Collected WiFi Addresses? [CONSUMER]

April 27, 2010

When people first started whining about privacy issues when Google’s Street View cars started capturing “interesting” images in public, my first thought was to get over it.  If you’re doing something in public, it’s for the whole world to see.  And in this era, that’s a literal interpretation. If you don’t want to be seen [...]

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Ever Want to be A ProBlogger? Darren Rowse Tells You How [Consumer]

April 27, 2010

If you’ve been blogging in the hopes of making extra income, but it isn’t coming together for you, Darren Rowse, the creator of ProBlogger, and Chris Garret, have put together a book that outlines what Darren calls  ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income. Many recognized the virtues of the material and [...]

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Why You Don’t Open All Links From Friends Blindly [Consumer]

April 14, 2010

I’ve always said don’t blindly click on links from anyone, even friends.  It doesn’t always pay off.  One thing you have to weigh in on is if what they’ve sent you is par for their personality.  If you start getting links from me offering knitting tips, dude, don’t open it.  I tend to write  something [...]

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The 2010 Streamy Awards Winners

April 7, 2010

The 2010 Streamy Awards (craft awards) came and went today.  I’ve always tried to pay attention to web series but I can’t seem to find a good centralized source that says, hey, this is cool, or check this one out.  But now, I may have a list to look over from the winners of the [...]

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Are Alexa Rankings That Critical? This Article Might Make You Think Differently! [Consumer]

April 2, 2010

Alexa rankings are a slice of the web population.  Some focus on them as the end-all of statistics while others say that because the rankings are only from specific web surfers who have the Alexa Toolbar installed, that they don’t amount to much. Maybe Alexa is just a slice of the humanity on the internet [...]

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Customizing Your Facebook Updates Per List

January 4, 2010

Facebook The other day it was driving me crazy to try and find an update from a specific friend of mine on Facebook, so I dug about and discovered that I can not only assign groups to each “friend” on Facebook, but I can also selectively look at each group on its own. Now I [...]

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Google Counts Down To The New Year [Computer]

December 31, 2009

I just discovered this gang, but if you head over to the Google search window, and click on the I’m Feeling Lucky button with the search window left blank, lookee there!  It’s a countdown time (in seconds) to midnight, per your own PC clock. Cool.  Those guys have all the fun there at Google! BTW, [...]

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Locate Free Wireless Hotspots

December 26, 2009

Have you ever been in a tizzy and needed a FREE wireless hotspot to access if the need arose?  Well, first off, if the need arose, you’d need to know where to look already, so this is more of a preplanned type thing.  Me, I’d slap some of these locations into my Google Bookmarks or [...]

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Facebook Is Changing Privacy Controls [Consumer]

December 18, 2009

This morning when I logged into Facebook I was notified of the privacy settings being changed. Right now, if you just accept the default privacy settings when you partake in their update, that means that EVERYONE on the internet will be able to see your updates / thoughts that you type. For some, that suddenly [...]

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Feedburner Now Tweets!!! [Consumer]

December 15, 2009

I just discovered that Google has jumped on the Twitter bandwagon and introduced to their Feedburner product the ability to tweet your blog or news article posts from your feeds now. Do you know what this means to someone like myself who runs a publication that has multiple genre?  It means a massive simplification to [...]

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