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LinkedIn Opens to Developers - An Early Look at Apps

LinkedIn has officially become just like every other social network on the Web. They have opened their platform to developers who want to build apps for profiles. So far, there are nine available apps. And they do all have a business...

Are Consumers Ready for Mobile Advertising?

Consumer confidence is down, the economy is up and down and there are reports all over the Web anticipating a slow online buying season. But one industry is up - and shows no signs of slowing down. According to various estimates Apple's...

Looking for That Perfect Image? Try Pixolu

Pixolu is "a prototype implementation of an academic research project on semantic image search." It works, albeit with a few bugs right now. Enter your search term and you will get back a set of about 100 images, culled from...

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Boomerater: Taking the Collective Pulse of Boomers

Following online conversations can go a long way towards finding opportunities within certain demographics. And Baby Boomers make a large, affluent target. In steps Boomerater , "Recommendations & Advice by Boomers for Boomers...

Consumer Confidence Plunges in October

According to The Conference Board , a New York-based business research group, consumer confidence is in shambles. The Consumer Confidence Index was created in 1967, and the current score of 38 is its lowest ever. That's down from...

Comment, Collaborate on Any Element of Any Web Page

Reframe It is an extension (available for both Firefox and IE) that allows you to make comments on any page or portion of a page and share that comment with the entire Reframe It community, or your chosen contacts. Here's how it...

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Combine Many URLs Into One for Easy Sharing

If you're a Twitter user, you have surely heard of TinyURL . If not, the service simply takes a long URL and shortens it, so you can share it with services like Twitter with character limits. Now, Shrink2One has released a service...

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Google Trends Quick Hit: Wine, Cheese and Turkey

As the weather begins to chill, so do consumers. Taking a quick look at 2007 Google Trends , searches in the U.S. for wine, cheese and turkey start to heat up right about now. Turkey, of course, peaks right at the end of November,...

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Early Look: Top 10 Android Apps

T-Mobile released the G1 mobile phone to the public this week, the first true competitor to the iPhone. And what makes the G1 a legitimate threat is Google's Android operating system, complete with apps, just like the iPhone. But...

Gmail Introduces Canned Responses

If you get a lot of email, and most of you probably do, Gmail has an option for you. Canned Responses is just what it sounds like - a collection of pre-written email responses that you write, save, and can then insert quickly into...

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Turn Your RSS Feed Into an iPhone App in Minutes

AppLoop has a tool that will take your RSS feed (or any RSS feed) and turn it into a native iPhone app, which you can then submit to the App store for approval, along with Android. AppLoop does all of the work for you, including importing...

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TubeChop: Share, Embed Only Portions of Video

We've all been there. There's a great video on YouTube, but it's long and you only want to share a portion of it with your friends or your blog audience. TubeChop.com lets you select that portion - and only that portion...

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Comparison Shopping from Your Mobile

Did you ever get the feeling while shopping that you might not be getting the best deal? Pongr is an application that can make sure you do. There are a few ways to use the service. The first, and easiest is to take a photo of the product...

Five Easy Ways to Build Brand Loyalty

Getting consumers to your website is one thing, and requires a special set of tools - SEO, SEM, networking and many other marketing strategies. Keeping them on your site and coming back is entirely different. One powerful method is...

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Streaming Live Video on the Web with Your Mobile

It's nice to see mobile developers come up with applications that tap into the heart of the mobile environment. Next2Friends , launched in 2007, allows users to live stream video broadcasts from your mobile device, viewable to...

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