Tag: twitter
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Hashable is shutting down
Long time Twitter ‘accessory’ Hashable is finally out of beta, and closing down effective July 25th 2012, according to an email I received late yesterday: Dear Hashable Users, We regret to inform you that the Hashable mobile apps and Hashable.com will be shutting down on July 25th. The service will be unavailable after this date. While we…
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Oldschool Awesome — Sword and Sworcery brings it!
With an allusion to a massive psychological experiment, the new Superbrothers Role Playing Game release, Sword & Sworcery, brings a new / old 8bit look to iPad gaming. Oh, and the game can integrate with your Twitter account, extending the gameplay into the Social Media world. While I download the app and start playing (for an…
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Emerging Tech: This magazine app knows what you like
You’ve got an iPad and all the popular magazine, content, reading apps like Reeder, Flipboard, Pulse, and FLUD. Well now there’s a new one using technology from the University of British Columbia’s Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. It’s called Zite, and is it ever cool. But first, the video. Why I like it It’s a learning app. Log…
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And we have a winner…
This weekend was a busy one with the regular life stuff, as well as drawing a winner for the Palm Pre 2 giveaway contest. Through a rigirous and exacting process of filtering new followers reviewing tweets, and generating a random number a random number of times — the winner of the Palm Pre 2, Touchstone…
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5 days left to win a webOS 2.0 powered Palm Pre 2 phone!
Well then, think there’s enough relevant keywords in that post title?
Good, because I really do want to make sure this little phone goes to a good home. WebOS2 is a funky little OS, and hardware running it is very slick. So why not take a chance and enter the contest — who knows, you could soon…
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I’m giving away a Palm Pre 2
Time for another Lifestyle Technology giveaway contest — and this time the prize is one very cool Palm Pre 2 and a few accessories, worth around $500.00.
Over the last few weeks I’ve had a chance to put the Palm Pre 2 through it’s paces and found it to be a solid smartphone. And…
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Emotionally gaming your Twitter stream?
I’ve been watching the development of Littlecosm, a new Twitter client with excitement as it’s one of a new breed that is applying sentiment analysis to derive a result — in this case your disposition in a game. Emotion plays a huge part in Littlecosm. Littlecosm analyzes your tweets and figures out if you’re in a…
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Keeping your holiday photos safe
The holiday season is upon us, which means that we’ll be enjoying time spent with family and friends. Many of us will grab our handy camera-enabled data phones and snap priceless shots that we’ll want to share, and keep for posterit...
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How social media tools can enhance and extend the reach of an event
This past Friday I went to a fundraiser Celebrity Chef event hosted by a friend and local Edmonton social media personality (and Bacon Guy) Jerry Aulenbach. Held at a local premier burger restaurant, the evening was one of good food, good conversation, and a lot of glowing screens. The restaurant had set aside a section…
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On the radio…again!
A couple of weeks ago local realtor and heavy social media maven @ZoomJer and I were interviewed by CBC’s Rod Kurtz about our involvement with social media and our upcoming sessions at Guru Digital Arts College’s Social Media Saturday event. Yes, we had fun! Check out our interview here… [powerpress url=“http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1165339/CBCRadioInterview/2010–09-15-social-media.mp3”]
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How to find good music online with social media
In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techblog I started talking about various Internet Radio ‘stations’. Today I realized I didn’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm It’s not your average music service. Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music discovery service, focused around the concept of…
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Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter
Last year, I wrote a couple of posts exploring the reasons why people follow me on Twitter: Wondering why people follow me on Twitter? The reasons why people follow me on Twitter Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twitter has been ‘improved’ in the meantime — revised ReTweet function,…