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  • Global Geek News #13

    Here are the shownotes for episode #13 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Subscribe on iTunes Download the MP3 Help support us with a $5/mo subscription! Stories: Circuit City to be liquidated App Store hits 500 million downloads Steve Jobs takes a leave of absence from Apple for health reasons Twitter hires a biz-dev guru…

  • TweetReplies Makes Sure You Never Miss an @ Reply

    Greetings Readers! I thought I would write a quick post to share a great new Twitter service that I have discovered with my readers.  As you may have guessed from the post title, the new service is called TweetReplies. For those that have never heard of TweetReplies, it is a new service that helps make…

  • How Do You Pick Your Social Networking Friends?

    Greetings Readers! Last night, I was playing around with the cool new website, socialmedian, when I came across a post about the dangers of random friending.  This story got me to thinking about how I choose my friends on my various social networks.  After giving some thought to it, I thought it would make for…

  • Twitter vs FriendFeed

    Greetings Readers! I have been using Twitter for close to a year and FriendFeed maybe half that time at best and I feel its finally time for me to declare which service is better.  Before I announce the better service, I should say that their overall function is similar but not exactly the same. For…

  • Yammer won the TechCrunch50?! What were the judges smoking?

    Hey readers! This is my fist on a good number of posts coming out of the TechCrunch50, a truely amazing conference.  Before I start posting my thoughts on many of the other companies that were at the conference, I figured I should start with the winner, Yammer. For those of you that weren’t at the…

  • Sharing Breaking News with Twitter

    Greetings Readers! Like many of you, I heard about the Chino Hills, CA earthquake via my Twitter friends.  After watching all the reports from my twitter friends scroll across my window, I realized the value of Twitter in emergency situations. Never before have we had such a medium to share breaking news as it happens…