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September 2010

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Google Instant Search could Suck for Advertisers!

Google now controls the popularity of words more than ever before, I found myself stop typing and clicking on their suggestion. Sites that are not being smart if their title optimization are gonna loose traffic like crazy. Plus for those advertising on Google, Google reports that it will count any result displayed for 3 seconds as an impression. Sounds to

Chrome Or Android For Tablets?

With a plethora of tablets on the horizon I started wondering...what is Google's real strategy?  Apple has hit the market early and hard and Windows 7, which is sleek, fast, and touch-ready, just doesn't seem to be quite the tablet OS it could be. Google seems to be somewhat mixed up with their answer to this.  Several manufacturers are readying

Apple Ping: Apple’s Social Network that’s Not Very Social

I took the time to download iTunes 10 over the weekend. With it, the new service - Ping. A social network within a walled garden of iTunes. But not really that much of a social network The service is simple to activate. Apple - just like Google did with Buzz - placed an icon on the sidebar of iTunes. You

GNC-2010-09-07 #608 What Camera?

Congrats to our Roku Winner from Washington DC. Set your calendars because this Saturday, for the first time in 6 years, I launch a new show. The tentative name is "The Morning Tech Show" I will have guests on with me. This is your chance to submit discussion topics for in depth analysis of topics in the Tech World. The

5 Firefox Add-ons You Must Have

If you use Firefox as your primary browser then you're probably familiar with extensions (or add-ons).  There are an almost endless number of them available, but here are five that I find indispensable and I add whenever I set up a new PC. Xmarks Xmarks is, by far, my number one Firefox extension.  It's simple, works across all platforms, and

Your Next Doctor may be on Wheels

Imagine you have been rushed to the hospital for a hear attack, and they roll you into the emergency room and start working on you. When you ask the nurse who or where the doctor is she tells you he is plugged into the charger. As you blink in surprise something that looks half segway, half television monitor on wheels

Godaddy Marketplace

Over the past couple of months I have been exploring putting up a shopping cart to sell some unique items for the show. There are a 100 different sites that have a 100 different features but what I found was that most where simply to expensive, or reminded me of some of those old school shopping carts seen in the

Paper.li Review

One of the coolest ways to use Paper.li is too use it along with Listerous. Listerous is a Twitter list directory, where you can find a list on almost any subject you can think of. You can take any one of those list and create a newspaper out of it in Paper.li For example I love Science, so I went to Listerous and found a list under the keyword Science that looked interesting to me. I created a newspaper out of that list. Now once a day I have a newspaper with all news about from that list about Science. The paper shows text, pictures and you can play video within it. It even has a live feed of tweets that are coming in realtime from that list. They appear to be working on a way to tweet directly from the paper, but I don't think it is working yet.

Netgear Roku XD Player

Over 25,000 people are now watching Geek News Central on the Roku, and I was very excited to see that Roku has apparently made a distribution deal with Netgear. The evidence is this image that has surfaced at the FCC hat tip to wirelessgoodness.com for the source on this. Up to this point the only way you could purchase a

AirPlay from Apple a Dream come True

In my book Podcasting The Do it Your Self Guide I talk about a day when we will be listening or watching a program while making breakfast and as we leave for work the media would follow us into a device in our pocket or in our car. I probably should have applied for a patent on that idea back

Apple TV and the Missing Feature

I was sitting of all places in the Set Top Box conference in San Jose the past week when Apple made the announcement about the new Apple TV. In fact I was watching the event on my iPad. I have been pretty excited about the announcement, and my team at RawVoice has been spending a lot of time talking about

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