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Seth Godin’s Word of the Day: Excoriate

I love Seth Godin and look forward to reading his daily blog post each morning.  In fact, it’s always one of the first emails I open each day.  I’ve noticed, however, that in his blog posts, he will occasionally drop a seriously heavy word on his readers.  I have found myself, numerous times, having to […]

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Entertainment iPad

Walmart Launches Vudu For iPad Today, But Not As An App

Walmart is launching video streaming service Vudu on the iPad today which will bring 20,000 instant movies and TV shows available for downloading and viewing.  What’s unique about Vudu launching on the iPad however is that it’s not launching as an app.  Instead, Vudu is launching as a mobile website that is compatible on the […]

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Entertainment

20,000 Officially Licensed Movie Clips Coming To YouTube from MovieClips.com

You know all those movie clips on YouTube of movies that are “coming soon”?  Did you realize that nearly all of those movie clips violate copyright laws in some form or fashion.  That is, unless you happen to be watching one of the very few previews that are loaded onto YouTube by the movie companies. […]

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Entertainment

Amazon Video Game Deal of the Day: CSI Unsolved, only $9.99 (50% Off)

I had no idea that Amazon ran a video game deal of the day. I’ve always known about the Gold Box deals which is where Amazon’s main deal of the day is launched, never knew there was a video game deal of the day. This has me thinking that there are other deals of the […]

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iPad Opinion

Do We Really Need All These Apps?

I can’t help but wonder if the age of app domination is a going to become a thing of the past.  Billions of apps are downloaded to devices such as the iPhone, Android smartphones, and iPad.  But is it all really necessary?  And is it really the best thing for developers to be spending their […]

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Entertainment

Automotive History Is Made – Google’s Self Driving Vehicle Has It’s First Fender-Bender

Google is already in the process of making automotive history with the introduction of their self driving vehicles.  These “Google software driven vehicles” have already logged hundreds of thousands of miles in California – where there aren’t any laws on the books preventing the car from operating – and have already passed legislation in Nevada […]

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Virginia Tech On Lockdown After A Gunman Threat

Virginia Tech has issued a lockdown and cancelled classes for the rest of the day today due to a potential threat from a gunman on campus. The Virginia Tech website issued the following warning: Students are asked not to come to campus. The university understands that it has been several hours since this began.   Many […]