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An interesting demographic study into the two behemoths of social networking. Some thoughts: I had no idea that twitter was so big amongst college students. Also twitter’s status as a platform for social interaction (rather than just a front end) is evident in that 52% of users  post to their twitter everyday, despite only 27% [...]

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Now that it’s officially cool to be a geek, let me share some of my recent nerdy indulgences: Dataspora is a blog devoted to data mining trends and technologies. These topics are increasingly important now that so much data is accessible for analysis. One day, socially awkward data scientists and statisticians will become smooth operators [...]

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In an earlier post, Think More. Design Less, I shared some products that smacked of great design. Recently I came across the documentary, Objectified, which is an in depth look at the design process for consumer goods. It even touches on  some of the products that were mention in my earlier post. From concept to [...]

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Move over Hipstamatic. There is a new photo application for the iPhone. Instagram launched last week and it has created an addictive way to add digital effects to new and previously taken pictures AND share them across various social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Foursquare. Did I mention that, unlike Hipstamatic, Instagram is currently [...]

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I really can’t believe this site is still up. Not only still up, but gaining in popularity against the heavyweight, Pandora. Coming from a loyal Pandora fan, Grooveshark has still got to be the best online music option in the United States (Euro has Spotify). Grooveshark offers both on-demand songs from an ultra-comprehensive music library and they also have a Radio option [...]

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Developed by Peter Fahey at Sneaker Pimps The ultimate skateboard directory for skateboarders made by skateboarders – this isn’t another extreme sports app – this is the real deal. This application was made by a network of hardcore skaters from across the world. iSkateboard is an application created to help skaters find street skate spots, [...]

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Jailbreaking refers to hacking your iphone to be able to run applications that are not available in the apple store.  Further, you can modify the look and feel of your iphone to, for example, modify the unlock screen of your iphone or even change the buttons and borders in your iphone home screen.  The full [...]

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So… Twitter is a social networking site where people can post micro-blogs which are viewable by others in their network. What is a micro-blog? Twitter likes to confuse us more by calling them “tweets”, but I like to think of micro-blogging as when facebook asks you “What are you doing?”. You have 1-2 sentences to express yourself. On [...]

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