Monday, April 25, 2011

Who wants #GetGlue Royal wedding sticker

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GetGlue has two dates for Friday’s Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, as the entertainment-based sticker-awarding social network announced agreements with NBC News/MSNBC and TLC.


Users who check in to coverage of the festivities by NBC News and MSNBC can earn special Royal Wedding stickers.

Likewise for GetGlue users who check in to any of TLC’s wedding-related specials.


The Royal Wedding will air across several broadcast and cable networks Friday at 5

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

#Google #NFC face huge competition

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Enterprise Mobility: Google NFC Mobile Payments May Face Apple, Amazon, PayPal as Challengers


Apple is reportedly building NFC for a future iPhone, which could blow open the market for NFC because the company has sold more than 100 million iPhones. This presents a Catch-22 challenge. Until Apple releases an NFC-enabled iPhone, consumer awareness is likely to be low. Apple through its ubiquitous brand tends to call attention to new products. But when Apple does launch an NFC phone and hawks it as a mobile "iWallet," carriers will find it tough to sell Android phones that do the same. Just look at what happened to the Motorola Xoom, launching so close to the iPad 2.

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Prepare 2 work harder 4 #Fb engagment

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EdgeRank Means Brands Now Need to Work Harder for Engagement, Says Punch

Punch is a boutique PR agency with the skill set and client base of a global agency.
The extension of Facebook’s EdgeRank algorithm to its pages now means that brands will have to work harder to maintain their fan engagement levels according to PR, search and social media agency Punch Communications.
The EdgeRank algorithm was initially implemented from a user perspective in April 2010, but evidence suggests that the algorithm has now been extended to include posts from any pages each individual user may have subscribed to (using the “like” button). This has had a direct effect on the post visibility of brand pages, resulting in the reach of pages being significantly less than it was previously

Quote startBrands will now need to work much harder in order to maintain the proportion of fans that are engaged within Facebook and proceed to achieve growth.Quote end
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

FourSquare but for Bloggers MessageParty

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Back in August of last year we wrote about MessageParty, a new location-based chat service that let you exchange messages with people (even strangers) located nearby. But that didn’t really work out — outside of a few random events, there was never a high enough density of messages for people to really interact with each other. So today the company is announcing that it’s relaunching (I’m avoiding the ‘P’ word) as something very different: location-based blogging, or, as CEO Amanda Peyton calls it, “GeoBlogging”. The service is going live today in New York City, and you can download the iPhone app right here.

But Peyton thinks that the time is right for such a service to start gaining traction. She explains that location-enabled devices have become so common — and people have become so used to the idea of sharing their location — that the time is ripe for services where location is the central driver of the service, as opposed to an add-on.


I don’t think she’s wrong (it would be nice to fire up an app and see interesting tags left by other people). But MessageParty has a tough road ahead of it. The service doesn’t currently have any inherently viral mechanics so it’s going to take a lot of work to gain traction — which is essential if the app is going to keep people coming back for fresh content.

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

WTF LOL in Oxford dictionary OMG WTF LOL

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Instant Messaging clients like Messenger and ICQ once made terms like WTF and LOL mainstream, as they were used in person-to-person chats, but it can be said that the rise of social media has meant that these terms now live in the public domain, and are becoming ubiquitous in today’s culture. Oxford Dictionary agrees, as they’ve added a whole slew of WTF words to the library.



With approximately 600,000 words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the longest official dictionary; as stated by The Guinness Book of World Records.

The committed empire of words now includes ♥ and LOL as real words worthy of etymological recording. Even other words such as OMG are included, citing that they “are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications,” and have entered the mainstream because of how easy they are to use. OMG! That is so true!

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Facebook snatches another Googler

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Ji Lee, the Creative Director for Google Creative Lab confirmed this morning on Twitter he is indeed moving on to be Facebook’s very first creative director.  What’s interesting about this move is that it confirms both the talent leakage of Google but also Facebook’s long term build out of the strategic departments.


Interestingly enough Lee tweeted back to Matt Monahan, of Epic Social, who was quoted earlier this week for online influence with INC Magazine. See Why Social Influence Matters to Business by Lou Dubois.

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Nasa Computers ripe for computer hack

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NASA Computers Servers Defenses Down







Technology is something that has continued to grow and advance in the past few years. As citizens we continue to embrace changes and advancement in technology and apply those to our individual computer systems, such as PCs, GPS units, and gaming systems. We also understand the importance of upgrades to keep computer systems safe for the protection of the data stored within these systems.


There are times when issues of individual security in regard to personal computer systems can be overlooked. However this should never happen in regard to government agencies such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It seems that NASA has indeed overlooked crucial issues in regard to the safety of many internal computer servers.


According to an Internal audit performed by the Inspector General, there are crucial security issues affecting six computers severs that are vulnerable to attack by way of the Internet. 


“Six computer servers associated with IT assets that control spacecraft and contain critical data had vulnerabilities that would allow a remote attacker to take control of or render them unavailable,“ according to the Inspector General's report. An attack on these systems could prove catastrophic to NASA. The weakness within the system could in fact allow penetration on an agency-wide level, haphazardly destroying and wreaking havoc throughout NASA’s entire computer network. Not only were the six servers extremely vulnerable to attack externally, but also after the penetration of the computer systems, it was discovered that some encrypted information could be revealed.


“We also found network servers that revealed encryption keys, encrypted passwords, and user account information to potential attackers." the report said. "These data are sensitive and provide attackers additional ways to gain unauthorized access to NASA networks.”


Incredibly, these finding are not at all new to NASA. There were recommendations in May of 2010 by the office of the Inspector General to address these serious security issues. However, it is now almost one year later and these gaping holes in the NASA's Security have yet to be addressed. It seems that NASA has not authorized or assigned responsibility for eliminating these issues to anyone within its IT Department. So, in the meantime, vulnerability to attack remains uppermost in the minds of many people. Let's just hope that it is not uppermost in the minds of those that wish to do NASA harm.


The entire report is online here.

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