via flowtown.com I just came across this. At first I was cynical – I usually am when presented with ‘the new thing’ because most new things are derivatives of old things – but this is a genuinely good idea. It takes your email contacts list (think marketing lists, outreach lists, sales leads etc) and tells […]
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Kurrently searches Facebook news feed
via kurrently.com This is pretty cool – a search engine that looks through the Facebook news feed. That’s about as real-time as it gets. Plus, it qualifies on two other counts: it has a parse-friendly URL (that is, you can pass keywords to it in the address); and it creates an RSS feed of the […]
To craunch a marmoset, frothy vomit, and other curiosities
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes So I was going through Epoch PR‘s numbers (I’m their digital associate and am helping them with their online strategy), and this came up: http://seadna.net/301-redirect-the-seo-way-to-rename-or-move-files-or-folders/ To quote the bit that my Epoch PR search must have picked up: “it takes a straws of in good time always and hard hopped […]
Who are: @frosty_snow, @geoff_bronson, @gavin_henderson, @peter_bently?
This morning I took a quick look at what people were saying on the UK Election Social Media Dashboard. I noticed a few spikes on Twitter for George Osborne. This was strange. Osborne hasn’t figured particularly highly so far, and when he has, it’s been associated with spikes for his contemporaries Darling and Cable. So […]
Social spume
- Teach Your Kids Tech Basics With Electronic Building BlocksFor parents looking for educational toys, a hardware startup developed electronic buildings blocks and a companion augmented reality app that make for an interactive learning experience. Founded by Tarun Pondicherry and Josh Chan, LightUp magnetic building blocks that can teach anyone about how electronics work. The interactive blocks are different electroni […]Vignesh Ramachandran
- Bieber to Booing Crowd: 'I Think I'm Doing a Pretty Good Job'Justin Bieber won two awards at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, and the audience had mixed emotions about his speech "I'm 19 years old, I think I'm doing a pretty good job [...] it should really be about the music. It should be about the craft, the craft that I'm making," Bieber said. "I'm an artist that should […]NowThisNews
- GoPro Captures How it Looks to Be Eaten By a Grizzly BearWelp, this is about as up close and personal as you'll ever get to a grizzly bear's mouth without being eaten alive or requiring some pretty major surgery The incredible clip embedded above comes from the GoPro camera of Alaskan naturalist Brad Josephs. While he was leading a wildlife-viewing trip, a mother bear and her three-year-old cub came acro […]Sam Laird
- Where Would the World Be Without YouTube?YouTube recently celebrated its eighth birthday, reminding us that less than a decade ago we had no access to cute cat videos, screaming goat clips and viral trends such as the Harlem Shake How, oh how, did we ever survive? For YouTube's Comedy Week, the Gregory Brothers pay homage to all the addictive content that the video-sharing website has given us […]Neha Prakash
- Terrifying Eyewitness Videos of Oklahoma Tornado Go ViralSeveral eyewitness videos of the massive tornado that devastated Oklahoma City suburbs Monday — killing at least 51 people — have gone viral online. SEE ALSO: CBS Delays 'Mike & Molly' Finale in Wake of Oklahoma Tornado They each portray the cyclone tearing across Moore, Okla., near Oklahoma City, and kicking up debris. The half-mile-wide torna […]Anita Li
- 'X Factor' Confirms New Judges After Tweet Leaks NewsDestiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland and international pop star Paulina Rubio will join The X Factor judging panel alongside Simon Cowell and Demi Lovato for season three, Fox revealed on the show's Facebook and Twitter pages Monday night The announcement came hours after a Missouri concert venue inadvertently leaked half of the news in a tweet war […]Brian Anthony Hernandez
- Can Yahoo Ignore Tumblr's Dark Side?When my daughter begged me a few years ago to go on Tumblr so she could engage with Harry Potter fandom, I said no. I was worried about what else she might encounter on the vast blogging service You know what I’m talking about. I feared she’d stumble onto porn. Tumblr, which Yahoo is buying for $1.1 Billion is not a porn site, far from it. Spend any time on […]Lance Ulanoff
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