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Useful iPhone apps for the Super Connectors* of the world

Here are a few of the useful networking apps I have discovered. I am sure there are dozens more, but these have been useful to me. Facebook the gold standard for connecting your personal life as well as business marketing. LinkedIn Designed for professional networking, keep tings strictly business. Twitter Keep in touch with colleagues [...]

All the cool Google logos

If you’re like me, you catch a cool Google logo every now and then.  (See earlier post on Jules Verne’s Bday) I wasn’t even looking for it but came across a listing of all their cool logos.  I did the thing I never do and hit “I’m Feeling Lucky” instead of doing a regular search [...]

Changes to the facebook pages

I made the switch on my business pages (and those of my clients) over to the new Facebook page layouts mainly because it was inevitable.  The changes go into effect for all Facebook Pages on March 10, which gives you four weeks to preview the new format and switch over at any time before then. [...]

Google Honors Jules Verne

How cool is Google today? They honored Jules Verne on the 183rd anniversary of his birthday with a way-cool interactive logo. It is a fun change to the old dependable logo that not only allows you to float around looking out the “submarine” logo windows, but turn, go up and down etc. There is even [...]

Leanback or just fall over?

YouTube Leanback is one of those things that just flew right past me. I heard about it today and checked it out. I am still not really sure a) if I like it b) what it is good for c) how I would use it It seems too interactive to be useful from the standpoint [...]

Outsourcing Your Friendships?

I was wished a Happy Birthday yesterday by a friend (who will not be named) and I noticed that the greeting came “via SocialCaddy.”  Ever the inquisitive one, I had to check it out.  The folks at SocialCaddy have created a service to help you “be a better friend.” The service, built on the Google [...]

ChrisCast 10-20-10

Here is a quick video I shot to remind folks to appreciate the great things in our lives.

Streaming Music sites compared

Okay, first of all this is NOT a scientific comparison.  Your results may vary.  I have been listening back and forth between Pandora, Last.fm and Grooveshark – so those are the ones I am going to discuss.  If you know of other ones (and there are plenty) go ahead and leave a comment and I [...]

Last.fm is one of those things I can’t stop using. I love statistics and the fact that is has kept stats on my audio habits for nearly a decade leaves me with some very cool statistics. I finally found a patch for one of the loopholes. I now have last.fm track my listens not only [...]

Been a while since you’ve used Google Earth?

It has been over four years since I last booted up Google Earth and although I loved it then, it is even better now. (Here are my previous posts related to Google Earth) I am not sure that I can even spell out the differences I see now – it could just be a reawakened [...]