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5 Highest Trending Jeremy Lin Hashtags
For those of you on the moon for the last 12 days, Jeremy Lin has taken over the world. The 6′ 3″ Asian-American from Harvard could have been found, up until a week ago, on the Knick’s bench and the … Continue reading
Posted in Content, Trends
Tagged hashtag, Jeremy Lin, Knicks, Linderalla, Linsanity, NBA
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Spotify vs Rdio
This week we released our coverage of music streaming service, Rdio. In researching streaming services, like Rdio, Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, Grooveshark, Turntable, and SoundCloud included, it can be difficult for the new user to readily tell the difference between them. … Continue reading
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Tagged Grooveshark, Hype Machine, Pandora, Rdio, Rhapsody, Soundcloud, Spotify, Turntable.fm, Wired
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10 Ways to Discover Music Online
For those born in the mid-to-late 80′s, our formative years coincided with those of the Internet. Days of hearing a catchy tune of the radio and jumping to your feet to see if the DJ would announce the artist’s name … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Lists, Aquarium Drunkard, Bandcamp, Brooklyn Bowl, Facebook, Free WIlliamsburg, Google Groups, Hype Machine, Kid A, Music, Music Blogs, Music Discovery, Music Genome Project, MusicID, Pandora Last.fm, Radiohead, Shazam, Social Media, SoundHound, The Bowery Presents, Turntable.fm, Twitter, We Are Hunted
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10 Most Watched Courses of 2011
The end of the year brings with it many things: holiday spirit, bonuses, parties, family, presents, vacation time, weather, etc. It’s also a great time to take a look back at the year previous and consider all the awesome, and … Continue reading
Classic Internet
It’s important to know your roots as they can sometimes afford these nuggets of cool/embarrassing nastalgia. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is a terrific tool to look up early versions of websites. Here are a few examples: Apple.com, surprisingly minimalist and … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, Funny or Die, Internet Archive, Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, New York Times, Space Jame, Sphere, The Lost World, Wayback Machine
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What is Grovo Online Shopping?
In just about our most substantive content release in the history of the company, I am proud to present Grovo Online Shopping. In engineering a more categorical approach to publishing our content, our goal here was not strictly to cover … Continue reading
Posted in Release, Trends
Tagged black friday, Ebay, Gilt, Grovo Online Shopping, LivingSocial, PriceGrabber, Rent the Runway, Shopping, Thanksgiving
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Gov’t vs Your Online Privacy; Gov’t vs The Internet
Here are two news stories I read this morning: Posted on GigaOm, this story follows up on the age old debate about your online privacy regarding information collected by social media websites, such as Facebook and Twitter. Here are some … Continue reading
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Tagged American Censorship Day, Facebook, Social Media, Twitter, U.S. Justice Department, wikileaks
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What Makes Spotify Tick?
Spotify was launched in October 2008 by a Swedish start-up and in under two years had some 10 million users. Their U.S. launch came just this past July, adding 4 million more–totaling in upwards of an approximate 14 million user … Continue reading
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Tagged F8, F8 Developer Conference, Facebook, music streaming, online music, Spotify, streaming
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Use the Internet to Drive a 1969 Ford Mustang
One of the most impactful uses of the Internet is peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing. Peer-to-peer networks have been used to share just about everything, including drug candidate information, physical goods and services, living accommodations, music (Napster, Spotify) and much more. The … Continue reading
Posted in Problem Solver, Trends
Tagged car share, car sharing, Getaround, Go-op, Higear, Jolly Wheels, Napster, Network, P2P, peer-to-peer, RelayRides, sharing, Spotify, Sprideshare, WhipCar, Zipcar
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How to Get the Most Out of Quora
This morning I awoke to a crafty little newsletter from Quora highlighting the top content for me this week. Skepticism was my first response; how do they know? I read on only to be met by this.. Authoritative commentary on high-speed car chases … Continue reading
Email Etiquette
After years of using electronic mail, or “email” for you techies out there, we’ve developed a rubric for its effective use as a form of online communication. The first thing you’ll want to do is clean yourself up, put on … Continue reading
How to Discover Web Content
How do you discover content on the Web these days? People are habitual creatures, and, whether tethered to a desk for work or not, will tend to visit the same handful of sites. A few quick phone calls reveal that … Continue reading
Posted in Problem Solver, Trends
Tagged Discover, Discovery Search Engine, StumbleUpon, Thoora
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Americans Love Social Media
Social media strategy firm, Hasai, did a bit of research and published an all too colorful infographic on Mashable on American society’s obsession with social media. Among others, it raises questions like, “are we just talking to ourselves?” In the … Continue reading
2011 State of WordPress
WordPress founder, Matt Mullenweg, recently delivered his 2011 State of the Word address, declaring WordPress healthy and getting healthier amidst the sea of ever expanding blogging software and platforms. Among the interesting numbers, the overall takeaway is the success in … Continue reading
Music by Google?
Google has just recently launched a music discovery site called Magnifier. Among other things, it offers a free song of the day and picks from staffers. There’s been a great deal happening in online music lately. Spotify is apparently taking … Continue reading
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Tagged Altered Zones, Free Music Archive, Live Music Archive, Music by Google, Pitchfork, Rdio, Resident Advisor, Spotify, Transparent, Turntable.fm
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Facebook Status Updates Grouped by Topic
In an attempt to make more sense out of the cavalcade of personal minutia that inevitably populates your News Feed, Facebook has begun grouping status updates and News Feed stories by topic. Here’s the example the site provided: An interesting … Continue reading
Posted in Problem Solver, Trends
Tagged Facebook, hashtag, News Feed, Social Media, Status Update, Topics
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Blog & Social Media Posts: Auto-Post vs. Manual Sharing
The age old question has still yet to be put to rest: Which is better, manual or automatic?While some enjoy the control and feel of a manual stick shift, others get their kicks using automatic blenders. Relatively recently, blogging has … Continue reading
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Tagged Auto Post, Blog, Blogging, Facebook, Manual Post, Post, ReadWriteWeb, Social Media
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Social Media Determines Successful Trading Strategy
The age old question with the advent of social media is what will the powers that be make of value of the infinite information that hundreds of millions of people readily register about themselves on today’s social networks. Facebook, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Derwent Capital Markets, Financial News, Social Media, Standard & Poor, trading, Twitter
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