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Contest Post-Tweeting: How People Don’t Read Contest Info

Next week I'll be headed to San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco. Naturally, I added the hashtag #tcdisrupt in my Tweet deck. I went through the posts, and one seems to keep coming up: TechCrunch Giveaway: White iPad 2 and Nook Color #TCDisrupt {link removed} via @techcrunch I went to the page in question and they gave away a

What Makes A Tech Success?

It seems in the world of computers and the Internet there is always a steady stream of new things on the horizon, as well as a steady stream of new products and services. It’s been this way for many years at this point. There are always winners and losers. Winners can win big, and losers at worst fail to make

Lisa Tickled Pink Hates Technology: The Social Experiment

If you by chanced checked out "This Week in Tech", you watched as Leo Laporte talked with Kevin Rose, John Dvorak and Clayton Morris talk about events in tech. I had the show on live as I was working on other projects as they did something that was not only interesting, but also shows how someone can turn from a

Quick – Tweet Now! You Might Be the 10 Billionth Twitter!

Well, the craze is on. 10 Billion Tweets will probably be hit by time you read this. 600 tweets a second (2.16 Million an hour). So in about 18 hours - Depending on how many people go Tweet crazy - The 10 Billionth Twitter will be posted. The 5 billionth was held by Robin Sloan, who posted "Oh Lord". It

The Onion’s fake news is too close to real news

O.K. - Check out this Onion article - Man's Facebook Status Given Book Deal Now check out this article on WSJ - S---mydadsays Lands TV Deal Can someone say "Irony?" Little did the Onion know, they were reporting a "Close to news" story. And it happened in the same week. I heard about this Twitter account a few weeks ago.

Be Careful How You Use The “T” Word

I’m talking about the company that starts with “Twit” and ends with “er”, and seems to be the hottest social media site around these days. A year ago I would mention that I was using Twitter to friends and family and I would get a strange look. Now it seems everyone wants you to follow them on Twitter: radio and