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Facebook Technology

Mashable Drops Meebo Toolbar

Mashable is one of the most popular social media and technology blogs on the web, and I visit their site multiple times throughout the day.  This morning, when I visited Mashable, I noticed there was something missing – and that was the Meebo toolbar and sharing integration.  You may remember what I’m talking about – […]

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Technology Twitter

The NFL Launches Official Twitter Tag For Super Bowl 44 “#SB44”

I would say that user generated content has moved to a new level of prominence in our society with the recent moves by the NFL.  Straight from their official website, the NFL has launched a Super Bowl 44 Twitter montage for fans.  This page basically aggregates the updates from Twitter that uses the NFL’s self […]

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iPhone News Technology

iPhone App Helped A Man Survive The Earthquake in Haiti

There are certainly more tragic stories coming out of Haiti than stories of survival and heroism.  There is one story, however, of a man who gives credit to his iPhone for his life being saved. According to Yahoo news, Dan Woolley, an American aid worker, was unfortunate enough to be in Haiti on January 12, […]

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Sports Technology

Baseball Player Turned Priest – Passes Up Millions To Serve God

A Life Serving God Grant Desme, a 23-year-old minor league outfielder in the Oakland A’s minor league system, is retiring from baseball to follow what he believes is God’s calling on his life, and that is to serve in the Catholic priesthood. It’s not everyday you see this level of commitment to do what God […]

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Facebook Marketing Technology Twitter

Automatically Send Twitter To Facebook Fan Pages

This articles describes a process that is still being tested – leave comments about your experience with it. *** UPDATE 2/10/2010 *** RSS Graffiti just updated their Facebook application so that you can customize the Twitter RSS feed directly from the RSS Graffiti app.  This is a powerful update because you no longer need to […]

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Technology

Avatar #1 For 5th Straight Weekend

There’s no question that the movie Avatar has been a smashing hit in movie theaters.  Having two versions – one regular viewing and one 3-D version – has been a great strategy for 20th Century Fox! Avatar has remained No. 1 for the fifth-straight weekend raising its domestic total to $491.8 million and should top […]

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Facebook Marketing Technology Twitter

Facebook Tries To Be More “Twitter” Like With Retweets

I’m of the opinion, and have been for about a year or so now, that we’ve only seen a small snippet of the relevance and influence that Twitter will bring to the web.  And today, my belief is reinforced again with the fact that Facebook is now implementing a sharing function that acts exactly like […]