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  • An Ashton Kutcher tweet only gets you 13,000 clicks

    Image via Wikipedia Have you ever thought to youself, “I could get a huge amount of traffic to my site if I could just get some celebrity with millions of followers to tweet about it?”  A company had that dream realized but the results are less than spectacular. Ashton Kutcher tweeted a video from a…

  • Angry Birds coming to Windows Phone 7…In a few months

    Rovio, the creators of the fantastic and addictive game Angry Birds has stated on their Twitter account that Angry Birds is coming to Windows Phone 7.  Unfortunately, Angry Birds on WP7 is still some months off.  As you may remember, Microsoft was accused of falsely advertising Angry Birds on their platform (which we spoke about…

  • Record 750 Million photos posted to Facebook for New Years

    Image via Wikipedia Today, Facebook announced on its twitter account that a record 750 million photos were uploaded to Facebook during the New Years 2011 weekend.  That is a lot of pictures on a single social networking site!  Anybody with a guess how many pictures showed drunk people?  Anyway, that number is really impressive and…

  • Buy the Windows 7 Family Pack, get a free Cisco router

    Thanks to a promoted tweet on Twitter, I found out that Microsoft is selling the Windows 7 Family Pack for $150 plus you get a free Cisco router.  I thought this would be something worth passing on to you guys as $150 for 3 installs of Windows 7 and a Cisco router is a fantastic…

  • Twitter: 25 billion tweets in 2010, Top 10 trends for 2010

    Last week, Google announced the top searches in 2010 with their 2010 Zeitgeist and now it is Twitter’s turn to give their top 10 trends of 2010. In a blog post, Twitter announced that an amazing 25 billion tweets were sent in 2010.  Out of those tweets, here are the top 10 Twitter trends for…

  • Protect yourself from Firesheep with HTTS Everywhere

    Image via Wikipedia As I am sure most everybody that reads sites such as Global Geek News and listens to podcasts like the Global Geek News Podcast, Firesheep is a Firefox extension that can be used to hijack peoples accounts on sites like Facebook and Twitter when browsing on an open wifi hotspot.  It is…