Mashable says that Google has “has dropped a nuclear bomb whose fallout will permanently alter the social media landscape” with the launch of Google Buzz last week (February 9, 2010).
If you aren’t already clued in to Google Buzz, it’s an expanded function of Google’s popular Gmail. Click the Buzz icon and see your friends’ posts [...]
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Google Buzz: What Say You?
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Hard Lessons from eBay
This week eBay announced yet another round of substantial changes to its selling structure. For the past few years, the mega online retailer has re-jiggered its platform and in the process made very few of its sellers happy.
I am a longtime seller on eBay, specializing in collectible vinyl records. Ebay has long been known as [...]
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We Really Are the Media Now
This past Tuesday (January 12) I was on Facebook and noticed that one of my FB friends had joined the group WFBQ-JIMMY-MAD-DOG-MATIS SHOULD-NOT-HAVE-GOT-FIRED.
Huh, I said to myself, while also pondering the grammatical error in the group title. Didn’t know that had happened. How did I miss it?
I went right to Indy Star and the Indianapolis [...]
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Jimmy "Mad Dog" Matis Fired by Q-95
News of this is just now breaking, but apparently it happened at the end of last week.
Jimmy “Mad Dog” Matis, mid-day voice of WFBQ Q-95, has been let go after a mere 25 years at the station. That’s an eternity in radio.
This follows sports talker JMV’s abrupt departure from sister station WNDE and his subsequent [...]
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How to Offend Me With Cookies (Not Easy!)
Early this fall, I downloaded a white paper from a website. Frankly I don’t even remember the topic, it was just part of my continuing education. As is typical, I had to give up some info–my contact info–in order to get the paper. That, I’m used to. Sometimes you get put on email lists, rarely [...]