Mobile coupons — usually text messages with discount codes sent to a cellphone — are becoming the blue-light specials for the digital age, promoting last-minute clothing sales, two-for-one entrees and cheap tickets to the theater.
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Wow, l love this case. (watch the video) Just need one for my new iTouch with camera. Now I just need to add a verizon Mifi and I have a better iPhone.
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Great story about Josh Harris & the old Pseudo days.
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"There was sushi served off naked women..." that's right, those were some crazy parties. SoHo (tech) in the late 90's were so much fun. I really miss 375 West Broadway....iTraffic, ePub...good times.
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Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, California, 2000: "The trainers were throwing meat into a small pool to demonstrate the tigers' diving ability, and this beautiful creature looked right into my camera. The scowl on his face is not from disgust or anger; rather, it results from how these big cats scrunch up their nose to keep water out."
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Anthony Bailey, ESPN's vice president for emerging technology... "said ESPN would be using its own camera crews and production trucks and will have a separate announcing crew -- Mark Jones and Bob Davie will call the 3-D telecast while Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit and reporter Lisa Salters will do the regular ESPN telecast. ESPN has done "practice" 3-D telecasts in-house, Bailey said, and this latest 3-D experience will include the first use of stereoscopic graphics, which means even the yellow first-down line will be in 3-D."
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purplebox: 40 full-time employees test 8500 new applications each week, that is slightly more than 10 minutes per application (40 hours work week). - http://army.twit.tv/notice...
Listen is essentially a Podcast aggregator for Android phone.
Google App allows you to find web audio relevant to your searches, lets you stream over-the-air or download for later, and subscribe to fresh content from your favorite feeds.
In short, “Listen helps organize the world of audio information and makes it easily accessible anytime, anywhere”.
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"Three Tips for Managing the Stream Before it Manages You Tweets, texts and feeds - oh my. It's enough to make any one go batty if it lets you. But like it or not, as I mentioned in my last column, we need a new set of skills to "keep up" and manage our streams (vs. letting it managing you). Here are my three favorites..."
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"I agree this is a good evolution.
FriendFeed knew it was missing it's tipping point in becoming the next social king, so instead of getting relegated to an Orkut, they merged with the group that admired them the most. The trick will be for Zuckerberg to keep all of the talent, which will be tough as we know how much the FB crowd loves change."
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Brown-Forman this year is investing the $7.5 million it spent in 2008 on cable TV and magazine ads for its Southern Comfort brand in a Web-centric campaign that will include placements on Facebook, Thrillist and Hulu. "As we've focused more on 21 to 29, TV becomes less and less effective at reaching that audience," said Lena DerOhannessian, the brand's U.S. marketing director. Advertising Age
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The technique uses magnetic fields to transmit electricity to a mobile phone, a radio or even an electric car without the need for plugs and cables.
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