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Finally!!! Themes for Google Mail
No more blah with Gmail. You can finally get rid of that boring blue - light blue theme on your Gmail. Until now GMail has oozed engineer all over when it comes to its designs. From the log-in screen to the layout, it screamed “made by engineers for engineers.” Now I have nothing against engineers, [...]
Social Media Quote of the Day
“We now have indisputable proof that online marketing, YouTube and Twitter and all that it encompasses is meaningful and has arrived,” said Gene Grabowski, chair of the crisis and litigation practice at Levick Strategic Communications. “We are seeing real consequences to a mistake. If [social networks] didn’t matter, you wouldn’t see this type of reaction [...]
H&R Block on Social Media Marketing
It’s a long video, but well worth watching, especially if you think your business/industry is not “attractive” enough to blog about.
Those Persistent Spammers
There is a new study out showing only one spam email out of 12.5 million receives a response. But apparently that is enough to keep them in business and spamming to the rest of us. My question is can we please find who it is that responds to these emails and ask them to stop [...]
New YouTube Video Competition
Once again The Onion reads our mind with a news magazine segment called “YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video”:
YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video
Here a Tweet, There a Tweet
The Wall Street Journal recently declared that Twitter has now gone mainstream. The article cites two companies in particular that are using Twitter with great success: Zappos and Comcast. Both are early adopters of the technology and have been very active on the service. Speaking of active, the article states that one of the main [...]
PodCampAZ Reflections
I attended my first PodCamp this past weekend, and had a great time. Actually to say it was a great experience is a severe understatement, the experience was very good for me. Unfortunately due to some personal considerations I was not able to be there for the full two days, but I did attend half [...]
Happy Halloween
Hat/tip: List of the Day (NSFW)
Print is Dying, Not Newspapers
Newspapers have been struggling and losing readership for some time now. That is not news. But what is news is that a paper like The Christian Science Monitor will now stop printing on weekdays and mostly an online newspaper with a weekend print edition. From the NYTimes:
After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science [...]
PodCampAZ this Weekend Nov 1st & 2nd
The PodCampAZ schedule has been released, which means its time to remind you all to join us if you can this weekend November 1st and 2nd.
I’m on Sunday anytime between 10.15am - 11.15am.
