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How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan Pages

Don’t let anyone tell you it is easy to create a successfully engaging Facebook Fan Page. It is not.
It’s not an insurmountable task either. But it requires planning, time, some kind of HTML knowledge, design skill, and imagination. Originality doesn’t hurt either.
There are great tools and tips available that will help you create an outstanding [...]

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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

What Did The Location War Look Like At SXSW? Like This.

Right before the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas a couple weeks ago, some of you may have read about SimpleGeo’s awesome location data visualization tool called Vicarious.ly. The site showed location information coming in to SimpleGeo from Austin in realtime, and included elements such as Foursquare check-ins, Gowalla check-ins, geotagged pictures from Flickr, and geotagged [...]

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Thu, March 25 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

USN-915-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Referenced CVEs: 

CVE-2009-0689, CVE-2009-2463, CVE-2009-3072, CVE-2009-3075, CVE-2009-3077, CVE-2009-3376, CVE-2009-3983, CVE-2010-0163

Description: 

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-915-1 March 18, 2010
thunderbird [...]

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Fri, March 19 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Meet The New Foursquare. Same As The Old Foursquare — But Prettier.

It’s hardly a secret that all of the major location-based players are planning big updates to their services to coincide with the SXSW festival starting next week in Austin, Texas. One of them peeked out a bit early: Foursquare.
Earlier today, the latest version of Foursquare, 1.6, went live in the App Store for a brief [...]

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Sun, March 7 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

What The Wii Did For Console Gaming, Glitch Wants To Do For MMOs. And It Just Might.

Last night, the news started to come out about Glitch, the new massively multiplayer online game that a few of the key cogs that built Flickr had been developing in secret for much of last year. Today, I got to see a still relatively early build of the game. It is both beautiful and impressive.
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Wed, February 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Does Foursquare Have A Douchebag Problem?

With Foursquare seeing fast growth and starting to be embraced by elements of the mainstream (like their new deal with Bravo), it might be decision time.
A popular part of the gaming element of the service is gaining badges, virtual tokens that show you’ve done a certain task on the service. Most of these are clever, [...]

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Mon, February 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments