Youtube.com has made stars out of everyday folks for many, many years now.  We watched the Evolution of Dance, Leeroy Jenkins!, the Grape Stomping Lady, and the Star Wars Kid get passed around social circles at lightening speed, providing instant entertainment and distraction from work. And while most of these people don’t push fame past

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The 24-hour news stations and explosion of social media news sharing means that there’s never really a time without breaking news.  But in reality, some news days are completely dull, filled with droning financial news and the latest political drivel while other days are filled with flashy scandals and big announcements… perfect fodder for social

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Microsoft announced today it will be acquiring Skype for the nice round number of $8.5B. I have two thoughts. Personally, I like the fact that personal desktop conferencing will find a wider audience as it moves to Kinect-set top boxes, computers, and other internet-ready devices. Professionally, since I work for a company that supports high-end

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Update (5/3/2011)  - Charts showing the Twitter traffic before, during and after the announcement. On this particular blog, this is post #100.   Usually that would be cause for celebration, but given the announcements made on 5/1/2011, it pales in comparision. As you have no doubt heard, read, or have seen, President Obama announced to

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If you’ve been sitting on the fence on whether to move your email, calendar and online collaboration to Google Apps, you better make your decision quickly. In an email delivered this morning, the Google Apps team announced that on May 10, 2011 Google Apps will be limiting users to ten or less.

Businesses large and small are looking for ways to cut costs and be more productive and efficient.  Thankfully there’s a huge pool of online applications developed by others in an effort to achieve the same thing.  And best of all, many times these applications are free. Below I have listed ten of my favorite free

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If there’s one major disadvantage to all of the telecommuting, consulting and home businesses, it’s the lack of a formal office. Sure, you can rely on meeting at your client’s office, or at a coffee shop, or my favorite place to meet brides for BeLoud Entertainment (my DJ business), Barnes & Noble.  But you can’t

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Earlier this year I purchased a Nook Color for my wife, admittedly not a technical person. It was unusual for her to be on the cutting edge with any device. She usually had a hand-me-down or 2nd tier phone, had an older iPod, and definitely never had the first generation of any device. So when

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