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Is Your Website Optimized For Mobile?

Smartphones and tablets have become our on-the-go computer in just the past 5 years alone. In fact, 55% of those who own smartphones use it to go online. What does this say? It says that we’ve become mobile users finding less of a need to even use an actual desktop computer to look up something. Personally,...

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Facebook Home And Your Business

When I first heard about Facebook Home, I initially thought it was just another app created by Facebook, but after seeing it in action I was surprised at how innovative the idea and implementation is. You’ve done it once again Mark Zuckerberg – created a whole new idea and approach to an existing product. So what exactly is...

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29 Jan Posted by in Mobile, Technology | Comments

Team Blackberry?

Before jumping ship to team iPhone or team Android, how many times did you tell people to “BBM” you? If you don’t know the old Blackberry reference, Blackberry diehards used it heavily to refer to the “Blackberry Messenger”. The exclusivity of the Blackberry Messenger made users feel special since only Blackberry users could BBM each...

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27 Jan Posted by in Technology | Comments

Can YouTube Kill Traditional Education?

For all of the typical associations made with YouTube, rarely — at least I believe — would a person consider it a form of education, especially when you consider the huge assortment of videos ranging from useful and entertaining to mundane and, frankly, stupid. Like really, really stupid. But then there are those useful videos,...

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Google+, Web Pages, and Getting Sued By the US Government

Google, for all of its amazing products — just what would we do without the ability to Google web pages? — has certainly been on the receiving end of its fair share of lawsuits. Google’s mobile operating system, Android, has been the target of many a lawsuit, most recently by British Telecom regarding several of...

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02 Jan Posted by in Mobile, Technology | Comments

Are Mobile Devices Destroying Our Attention Spans?

I think there was a time period — and I emphasize think, because I never really grew up during this time period — when people would just sit down at meetings and talk to one another, and not just stare blindly at our mobile devices. Not while intermittently looking at their smart phone or tablet...

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16 Dec Posted by in Technology, Trending | Comments

How Social Good Start-Ups Are Solving The World’s Problems

“Cars are parked all the time — 23 out of 24 hours of the day, on average,” notes Jeff Miller, CEO of the car-sharing service called Wheelz. Obviously, that’s a problem. According to studies, the average American family owns 2.28 vehicles per household which means that, on average, there are a lot of unused vehicles floating...

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Why The New Twitter Account Features Might Be Missing The Point

Twitter has long been a platform driven by simplicity. Rooted in simple, short 140-character text messages, the goal of one’s own Twitter account has always been to provide users with an instant form of communication that was never as complicated as Facebook. In a lot of ways, due to that simplicity, it has always been...

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02 Dec Posted by in Technology, Trending | Comments

The Beginning of Something Different for Facebook and Social Media

Facebook, for all intents and purposes, has always been the same. Yes, there have been minor and sometimes drastic overhauls to the ubiquitous social media network, but overall, its general purpose has remained the same: A platform for us to socialize with our friends and share interesting stories, news and other updates. Possibly the biggest...

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25 Nov Posted by in Technology | Comments

What My Grandma Taught Me About User Interface Design

An old lady with delicately groomed hair sits at a computer screen, feverishly clicking away at her mouse with reckless abandon at a graphic user interface with icons and windows. “Nothing is happening!” she screams. She looks down at her hand, which is covering the mouse, and admits that she just ‘doesn’t get it’. That,...

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