By admin on April 5, 2010
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Business Schools Respond to Demand for Use of Social Media By Fiona Mackay, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/education/31iht-riedmba.html Rita’s Italian Ice Uses Free Treats, Peeps, to Grow Facebook Page By Sara Inés Calderón, Inside Facebook http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/03/30/ritas-italian-ice-uses-free-treats-peeps-to-grow-facebook-page/ Travelocity Gnome Moonlights On Chatroulette by Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/03/31/travelocity-gnome-chatroulette/ [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged android, apple, articles of the week, chatroulette, education, Engadget, facebook, google, Inside Facebook, iPad, mashable, Mobile Behavior, NY Times, Rita's Italian Ice, travelocity
By admin on March 21, 2010
The other day I wrote about the creativity of Piano Chat Improv. Well it seems that you can count Ben Folds, who some people theorized was actually the piano chat guy, as a fan as well. The other day, at a live show in Charlotte, NC, Ben Folds did a live version of a piano [...]
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By admin on March 20, 2010
Isn’t it great to see creativity at work? I love when I come across an example of a person or brand leveraging the digital world in a creative manner. When I first saw Chatroulette, despite its obvious issues and shortcomings, I saw potential. There was and is a lot that can be done though with [...]
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By admin on February 21, 2010
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Surreal World of Chatroulette by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html Facebook, PayPal partner on advertising, virtual goods payments by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/18/facebook-paypal/ Dear SNL: Facebook Will Force You to Heart Betty White by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital/WSJ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100218/dear-snl-facebook-will-force-you-to-heart-betty-white/ What Kevin Smith means [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Things Digital, articles of the week, chatroulette, cnet, facebook, farmville, Kevin Smith, mashable, NY Times, paypal, PR, SNL, VentureBeat, virtual goods, WSJ
By admin on February 17, 2010
If you happened across my blog, you probably already know about Chatroulette. If you don’t, it’s a site that let’s you randomly connect to another user via webcam. There are no filters. There are no options. There are no moderators. You simply click to connect with a stranger and hit “next” to move to another. [...]
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By admin on February 14, 2010
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Chatroulette’s Creator, 17, Introduces Himself by Brad Stone, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/ Five Reasons to Love Google Buzz, Five Reasons Not by David Coursey, ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/reasons-love-loathe-google-buzz/story?id=9819647 Google Working On Translating Phone Conversations In Real-Time by Tricia Duryee, mocoNews http://moconews.net/article/419-google-working-on-translating-phone-conversations-in-real-time-/ Foursquare Inks Deals With Major Media [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ABC News, AOL, articles of the week, Buzz, CenterNetworks, chatroulette, facebook, foursquare, google, mashable, mocoNews, NY Times
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