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30.8% of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in Jan 2010

by Bill CrosbyMarch 6, 2010

According to hated-by-Jason Calacanis, comScore, 30.8% of smartphone users accessed social networking sites via their mobile browser in January 2010, which is 8.3 points more from one year ago. Facebook grew 112% in the past year, while Twitter experienced a 347% jump.
11.1% of all mobile phone users accessed a social networking site via mobile [...]

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Picture Of The Day: Who Knew Golfing Could Be So Painful?

by Bill CrosbyMarch 6, 2010

Unless you happen to be partnered up with an angry Tiger Woods, or fooling around with these guys, golfing doesn’t appear to pose much, if any, dangers to those playing this leisurely game. However, I guess that doesn’t not apply to those who decide to shoot a round in the desert.
Word of advice: If [...]

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5 types of emails to filter automatically

by Bill CrosbyMarch 6, 2010

If your inbox looks like a bottomless pit of Twitter notices and mass forwards of cat pictures, then it might be time to do a little email spring cleaning and organizing. Bonus, inbox spring cleaning sprees don’t require rubber gloves or a jumbo bottle of Liquid Plumber.
Stepcase Lifehack breaks down the five types of [...]

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Send E-mail and SMS Messages Using Voice Commands With Vlingo for iPhone

by Bill CrosbyMarch 5, 2010

Since Vlingo first introduced its voice control app for the BlackBerry more than a year and a half ago, smartphones and voice-to-speech technology have evolved quite a bit. Today, the company has launched a pretty major update to its iPhone app, adding the ability to send e-mail and SMS messages, plus a redesigned new [...]

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Twitter Hits 10 Billion Tweets

by Bill CrosbyMarch 5, 2010

It’s official: Twitter has surpassed 10 billion tweets. While Gigatweet’s counter is down due to over-traffic, you can tell by the actual tweet ID numbers that we have crossed the magical threshold.
The milestone shows that Twitter’s still growing at a rapid pace: It broke one billion tweets in November 2008 and five billion [...]

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Official: iPad Launching on Gizmodo April 3

by Bill CrosbyMarch 5, 2010

It’s official: iPad’s launching in the US on April 3, with the 3G model coming later in the month. Pre-orders start next week, March 12. It’s just about on time.
April 3, interestingly, is a Saturday, and exactly 59 66 days after the iPad launch, placing it just outside the 60 availability window Jobs promised [...]

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Tiger Admits He Thought The Rules Didn’t Apply to Him. What Do You Think?

by Bill CrosbyFebruary 19, 2010

First of all, I am a huge Tiger Woods fan and a fanatic golfer. I have signed autographs and personal notes from him. But, I am also a husband and a father, and was deeply disappointed in his behavior.
With that said, this Episode addresses the 14 minute press conference he held this morning and [...]

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Convert .mov to .flv video files on the fly, Major Time Saver!

by Bill CrosbyFebruary 18, 2010

In my weekly mastermind group, we just learned today (thanks to Sean Malarkey) that you can simply change a .mov (Mac based video format) file to .flv (Flash based format) by just changing the file type. In order for this to work, the codec (fancy pants language for how the movie is rendered on [...]

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