A lot of us don’ t always have a real purpose as to why we visit social media sites other than to kill some time and put an end to boredom. There is one organization, however, that is using Facebook to try and accomplish something with a real purpose. Bring Abducted Children Home (BACHome) is [...]

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After witnessing the battle between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Adobe we knew that somebody was going to eventually step up and offer a device that supports Flash, in all of it’s glory. It appears that Google plans on releasing an Android tablet operating system that does just that.
Mashable reported on their site today that Adobe [...]

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Google has just added another bullet point to its’ ever expanding list of search features: the ability to search for any TV show! Finding and watching your favorite TV shows online just got a whole lot easier.

Simply search for the name of the show you are looking for, then click the “Show options” button above [...]

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Google is introducing a great new feature to their real-time search that lets you go back in time to see tweets from any moment in the past about any topic. Here’s what Google had to say in their blog post:
“With the advent of blogs and micro-blogs, there’s a constant online conversation about breaking news, [...]

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It seems every year the internet becomes the launchpad for countless April fools jokes that sweep through the internet like a plague the odor from the bathroom at work around 2pm David After Dentist. This year the pranksters of the world wide web didn’t disappoint; Google changed its name, Youtube offered the option to watch [...]

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According to the guys over at TechCrunch Facebook has started to roll out the implementation of QR codes, or Quick Response codes, on personal pages and fan pages. QR codes are like bar codes, only they can store a lot more information and can be read by most modern camera phones. They can be used [...]

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Facebook and Twitter are seeing a big increase in the number of people who access their web sites through mobile phones. According to data released by comScore Facebook saw a 112% increase in mobile users during January 2010 compared to January 2009. 25.1 million people accessed Facebook via a mobile browser. Twitter also saw a [...]

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Facebook announced on their developers site that early 2010 would bring about a major change for applications to the popular social media site. All facebook applications will be excluded from pages, profile boxes, application info sections, and the Boxes tab leaving tabs as the only way to integrate. This means saying bye bye to annoying [...]

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It’s not often a company yet to reach it’s 4th birthday can brag about its enormous success and growth on an international level. Twitter, which will turn 4 this March, is one of the rare exceptions. It has helped launch the era of social media to unprecedented heights and has connected people on a level [...]

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As I walked past the TV in our office lobby the other day a commercial for Oreo Cakesters caught my eye. The scene was a boy and his father arguing over to dunk the Oreo Cakesters in milk or not. Of course, Oreo’s big marketing theme has always been about dunking the deliciously crisp chocolate [...]

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