
Gmail Tap
Realizing the silliness of trying to cram an entire 26-key keyboard onto a smartphone, Google is replacing QWERTY with Morse code. With only two keys, you can use Gmail Tap to send messages in the Gmail application using just dots and dashes. Not only that but Google Tap offers a multitasking mode that gives you two Morse code keyboards at once so you can send two different messages to two separate recipients at once. "I think the people who will be best served by Gmail Tap will be people with fat fingers," says Google engineer Mitch... [More]
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Facebook "Likes" = $$$
Bellow is a graph to the most popular brand with Facebook "Likes" As you can see from the graphs, millions of Facebook users are influencing the brand image. Currently, there are close to a billion active users on Facebook. These are active users, the one that is actively using Facebook day to day not just create an account with a post and leave. In the social business especially with Facebook, is no about who you know but how many "likes" you get. There are also services where you can buy "likes", one... [More]
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How to Change Your Blog Theme
Today I going to show you how to change the theme of your blog: 1. Go to My blog > Preference > Theme 2. Choose “Select a different theme:” and indicate the color theme you wish to apply to your blog and select “Save” There are 10 themes to chose from: 1. Blog 2. Blog with Multiple Authors 3. Blue Standard 4. Green Standard 5. Grey Standard 6. Khaki Standard 7. Khaki with Multiple Authors 8. Yellow Standard 9. dW Classic 10. Minimal I am currently using the Minimal theme.
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What Social Media? Social Business is Here!
There are 7 reason that the author is this article think of why every compnay is about becoming a social business: 1. Social media will be dwarfed by social business 2. People do business with people, not companies 3. Your employees need to be digital citizens, too 4. You don’t need to eat the whole social business elephant in one bite 5. A social business can be a good business, too 6. Enough already with the useless email chains 7. It’s okay to fail as long as you do it quickly For an explanation of the 7 points, please head up the... [More]
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Enterprise Social Tools Need to be Mobile
Angela Yochem, chief technology officer at AstraZeneca, which has 57,200 employees in the U.S., Europe and Asia says that the tools that the employees get to their enterprise-level social collaboration are not really optimize for mobile. Currently the enterprise users are turning into social collaboration tolls to allow their employees to work together seamlessly. "Companies are using enterprise-level versions of Facebook-like profiles and networks, instant messaging, videoconferencing and microblogging." Even with these... [More]
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How much is a Facebook fan really worth to your business?
Who is the world most popular social media network use by small business in the U.S? Facebook Up to 70 percent of small business use Facebook with about 18 million Facebook pages. Each of the business want to grab the attention about 180 miilion U.S users. When the user click "like" on the business Facebook page, what that actually mean? What if one business have 1000 "like" compare to a business with "100" like? More means lass, less means more? For the answer, head to the source. Source: ... [More]
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Social Media Trend is Dangerous
When using social medias, you are risking your personal information. If your employer or i nsur ance com pany is interested in your per sona l in form atio n, it would be relatively easy to obtain it. If you have not follow the news recently, whenever you apply for a job, some of the employers are asking for your Facebook password. Either that or they can have you log into your account in front of them so they can see virtually anything about your personal life. For example, likes & dis like s, r elat ions hips , and pictures... [More]
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Professional and Personal Life in Social Media?
When you work for a company especially the Fortune 500, you should never merge your work and personal life together in social media. Recently, there is a trend that employers asking their applicants for their log in for the social media sites like Facebook. Also, the employers are connecting to their penitential employees like requesting to be a friend in Facebook. Head up and read the article if you are interest on how business handle their social media. Source: ... [More]
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People do not know how to blog properly
Over the last couple years, the social media is increasing at an exponential rate as a form of communication. Blogging came out as a popular choice to communicate in a condensed form. When hiring fresh our of college, companies assume that the newly grads know how to blog properly due to the digital natives, but they are not, only about five percent actually have a blog. Facebook, Twitter and more recently Pinterest allow people to post shorter content. Now people can just post a sentence or tow then move on without thinking about the... [More]
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Twitter Used for Hoax
Tommaso De Benedetti who is a 43-year-old Roman schoolteacher is a elaborate twitter hoaxer. He first tweeted to the world the death of the Pope under the username Holy Father's No. 2. Then later tweeted to the world the death of Fidel Castro and Pedro Almodovar. He wanted to expose how unreliable social media is since it was so easy for him to tweeted the death of the Pope, Fidel Castro and Pedro Almodovar. In an interview with The Guardian, ''Social media is the most unverifiable information source in the world but the news media... [More]
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Kevin Popwatch: Read Tweets and Wipe!
Popwatchers, another ridiculous invention in our pop culture is here! You know how you spend so much time on the “throne” and have nothing to do. Now you can read tweets from your friends on a toilet paper. After you’re done reading it, you can use it to clean yourself up. What a convenient “recycle” way of life!
A startup company has this idea and is investing in it. It knows that you don’t have much time in daily life to keep track with everyone’s tweets. Therefore, for the only you can spare time to read, they put in an... [More]
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Kevin Popwatch: GPS tracking uniform
This is such a waste of money implementing on such device. This happens in Brazil. Whatever happened to tradition role calling if your students are not in class? Implementing such device can lead to much errors in judgment. What if the kids take the uniform off somewhere? What if the rain damages the device? This is another lame way for parents to keep control of their children by the help of technology. We wonder what’s next: install a chip in each person when they were born for government controls of its citizens. ... [More]
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Kevin Popwatch: School Fines Students For Facebook Account
This happens at The Beis Rivkah all-girl high school in Brooklyn, NY. Instead of asking all students to delete their facebook account, they actually fine students $100 each. So there is no warning. It seems that you have to pay up first to learn your lesson. We couldn’t help but wonder if this school is in America. Yes, it is! What happened to Freedom of Speech? I understand that schools don’t want students to be distracted with Facebook on their educational journey. But the way they are going at it is completely wrong. ... [More]
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“Is Pinterest the next Facebook?” (CNN Money, 2012)
Pinterest has enjoyed exponential growth since its inception in December 2009. Its simple design allows “pinners” to pin material to share with other visitors. However Pinterest is discerning about who may post material on its website. Interested individuals must request an invitation to join the site. This controlled approach has not hindered its ability to gain rapid popularity, however. The company amassed a whopping 17.8 million users since it began to operate as an open-beta. Reporter Alex Konrad likened the company... [More]
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“Facebook's patent headaches: More to come?” (CNN.com, 2012)
Social media leader Facebook was recently sued by Yahoo for patent infringement. This suit was filed during the month preceding Facebook’s long awaited IPO. This may sound like a familiar tactic for the struggling company; in 2004, right before Google’s IPO, Yahoo had just settled another patent lawsuit to the tune of $230 million, approximately 1% of Google’s IPO price. Yahoo cashed out on its gain from the lawsuit immediately after the settlement by selling the bulk of its newly acquired stake.
It seems that with rapid growth and... [More]
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Windows 8 vs OS X Mountain Lion
The traditional fight between Mac versus Windows has now expanded to include OS X Mountain Lion and Windows 8. The developer preview of both these operating systems is out and now Microsoft has even raised the curtains to give consumers a glimpse of Windows 8. Microsoft’s bold “one Windows” strategy – As we know, Microsoft has been making some major product changes and shifts in strategy as of late. Windows Phone at its conception was already a major change from its predecessor, Windows Mobile. And this year, Microsoft are expected to release... [More]
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Macbook Touch
That touch screen Mac idea may never have made it to the Apple brain storming sessions, but that never stops designers from creating concepts of products that they would like to see Apple make, or think would prove popular in the marketplace. We have seen iPhone and iPad concepts, and now it’s the turn of the conceptual MacBook Touch, which you can see showcased in all its entirety in the embedded video. The concept should appeal to those individuals who still crave to have a physical keyboard on their devices, but who always want the... [More]
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Kevin Popwatch: 5 Infamous Gaming Mishaps
This is quite interesting and funny article. This shows that
we are always young at heart or just really bored. The video industry is a very
profitable and addicted one. Politicians are no exception in those industries’
rules. As the link below shows us some funny incidents that politicians got
caught playing games at important meeting, we could help but relate to them. My
boss can walk in to my office every day and see me playing Farmville. Luckily
(knock on woods) I haven’t got caught. These people did get caught:... [More]
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Kevin Popwatch: 7 miles to the deepest end of the ocean
This doesn’t seem much relating to social or business, but I have to report this story. It’s such a historical moment for mankind on this day. Director James Cameron is famous for all the highest gross movie of history made another history for himself. He reached 7 miles down to the bottom of the ocean, plunging 500ft/minute in 2.5 hours. The video clip and the link made some comparisons: Himalaya is about 6 miles high, James Cameron’s Avatar movie is about 3 hours. Many have landed on the moon but only James can reach down to the... [More]
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Kevin Popwatch: The Happiest Jobs in America
Survey 100,400 employees, CareerBliss.com came up with the list of 20 happiest jobs. I’m surprised at the outcome as you will too after reading the article below. Employees were asked to rate 10 factors on a 5-point scale that affects workplace happiness: 1. Relationship with boss 2. Relationship with co-workers 3. Work environment 4. Job resources 5. Compensation 6. Growth opportunities 7. Company culture 8. Company reputation 9. Daily tasks 10. Control over work one does on a daily... [More]
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