There Is Nothing Social About Facebook – It Is Winner Take All

May 19, 2012

As you read this short article, read it with the knowledge that it is written by someone who believes that socially responsible capitalism remains a pillar of the American Dream. With that said, the last decade of Wall Street’s cannibalism of the middle class has ripped apart any trust that paycheck-earning Americans had in our [...]

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Are We In A Tech Bubble? It Sure Seems Like Dot-Com Deja-Vu To Me

May 18, 2012

With all the Facebook IPO hype, Groupon and LinkedIn earlier this year, LivingSocial raising huge sums of money, and now Pinterest raising $120 million, AND Kayak going public and I’m losing track of the IPO and fund-raising pace as it seems anyone with a fresh idea and a smart phone app is Wall Street’s best [...]

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Join Gogobot.com – Share Your Travels And Learn From Others

May 17, 2012

Facebook travel app Gogobot just surpassed one million subscribers. The app launched on Facebook in January, when the social network unveiled a slew of integrated apps, including Gogobot. Gogobot was in use before that time, launching in private beta 18 month ago. Now the app is exploding in popularity: A new user joins every 15 [...]

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Check Out Imgur.com – Laugh After Laugh Images And Comments

May 17, 2012

Virable produces socially-relevant content and feeds it to your Virable site, then to your social media accounts. From your Virable site, excerpts with links to your articles auto-magically post to your Twitter and Facebook business page. People see these interesting articles and click to read. They are then delivered back to your Virable site where [...]

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GM Cancels Facebook Ad Campaign Due To Ineffectiveness – Omen?

May 16, 2012

In a stunning blow preceding Facebook’s IPO, General Motors announced it is canceling its paid advertising campaign with Facebook, calling the ads “ineffective,” according to a Wall Street Journal report. The auto giant has concluded that paid ads on Facebook “had little impact on consumers,” according to the report, which cites “people familiar with the [...]

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If Groupon Just Turned A Profit Does That Mean Hell Has Frozen Over?

May 15, 2012

What the? It can’t be… Did Groupon really just crush Wall Street’s expectations by reporting a profit and a bevy of other positive data? What does this mean? It means nothing. Groupon is already known for its financial hocus pocus acts and like the magicians they are they just pulled a cute little accounting rabbit [...]

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This Is What Social Networking Is All About – People Helping People

May 14, 2012

We are big fans of Mashable.com. We are even bigger fans of stories like the one Mashable posted over the weekend about Scott Widak. Widak, 47, has Down syndrome and terminal liver disease. Recently, Widak’s nephew, Sean O’Connor posted a message on Reddit.com asking people to write his uncle and send the letters or messages [...]

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Time Mag Cover Of Mom Breastfeeding 3 Year Old Very Odd

May 13, 2012

Okay, so we’re not above a little shock value but we figured if this image graced the cover of Time magazine this week it was safe enough for our audience. What struck us about this image was not so much that it was provocative or that the mom looks completely disinterested in that kid (by [...]

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JP Morgan Stock Tanking After Hours on $2 Billion Synthetic Derivatives Loss

May 13, 2012

So if you ever wondered why not a single Wall Street executive has been prosecuted for ‘Mortgage-Gate’, look no further than JP Morgan revealing a $2 billion dollar trading loss in its synthetic derivatives portfolio. Wall Street, the former stewards of our financial trust, can lose billions of dollars and the world, or at least [...]

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Color Kindle On The Way And The Rate Of Innovation

May 12, 2012

Amazon is about to put a color Kindle to market in the second half of 2012. Why is this news? Because everybody loves pretty pictures and with the online world a visual one, color Kindles were inevitable. This story actually prompted me to do a Google search for ‘the rate of tech innovation’. I was [...]

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