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Twitter in the Movies

- What takes Bruno from 14.4 to 8.8 in 24 hours?
- The trend of Twittering is increasing
- Kevin Spacey explained to Dave Letterman
- Not the fact that both Oprah and Uma are on Twitter….
Uma Twitter
Oprah Twitter
Kevin Spacey Twitter
Placemark for David Letterman Twitter

Windows 7 is Done
- Win7, Server 2008 R2 hit RTM
- Doesn’t mean it’s ready to ship, just that it’s done
- No plans to push up release date
- October 22nd

Medical Marijuana? We got an App for that!
- Activists Justifying the Natural Agriculture of Ganja (AJNAG)
- $2.99
- Map will contain Doctors to prescribe, and Lawyers that Specialize in those lawsuits.

PSPGo Hands on
- Chad Sapieha met with John Koller – Sony Director of Hardware Marketing in North America
- Portable
- 16 GB SSD
- Slide out Joystick
- Bluetooth & Wi-FI
- Compatible with PS3 devices
- No UMD Disc slot. Download games only.

Being Laid off is Good.

- Skilled tech workers are hard to find.

- Silicon Valley lost 10,000 tech jobs in the past year, according to the state’s Employment Development Department,
- trend is expected to continue.
- Wired says that lack of loyalty has been a key driver of the Valley’s rapid innovation over the past three decades.
- You can skip from job to job, but watch out and don’t burn bridges.
- Facebook widgets, iPhone apps, Twitter tools, and cloud services are exploding – just ready for entreprenuerial talent.

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I just don’t get it -

This is the line I heard today from a fellow IT person. He then proceeded to say “The younger people do it more. I guess it’s not a part of my generation”.

Wait a minute. I remember an article that says older people DO like twitter. But they are not staying on twitter. So who is right? Read the rest of this entry »

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Ashton hit 1 million – he was the first – on Twitter. Oprah is at 83,000. CNN, Ellen, Jimmy Fallon, Barack Obama and Shaq are those who make the top list of Twitter Followed profiles.

It seems Twitter is getting us closer to people we see on Radio, TV and Movies. You can find out what someone is doing from wherever you and they are. You can use your computer, phone, mobile device or mental telepathy – if you have an API written for it.

Then there is the chance that you might reply to @aplusk. Then you can say “Ashton talked back to me.” Well, maybe it’s his assistant who’s job it is to watch the twitter account. Even though Ashton is following 73, he can see all the @ replies.

There are those who are trying to find a way to get more followers. The best way would be if you did get a @ reply from Ashton. Really – it’s true: I have seen where I would @ a person, they would @ me back and I saw my followers jump up. And, No – it’s not all spammers and “Qwitters” (People that unfollow you after so many days hoping you will follow them).

Think about it – It’s like if you went to California, ran into Ashton and he said “Hey! Let’s go to Element and have a drink”. You walk up to the door and Ashton shakes hands with the security in the front, then says “Hey, this guy’s with me”. You then walk in without your name being on the guest list. All of a sudden you have people looking at you.

OK, I sensationalized the Twitter experience a little more than usual. But the same result is true. You have a few people going “I wonder what @geekazine is like…”

Now don’t expect to start @aplusk on every twitter he sends. It might get him to block you. It might get your account suspended by Twitter.

Twitter is a great tool to get your name across. If it wasn’t for the social Microblogger, I wouldn’t have met a lot of the people in my profession. I still have a lot to go. Maybe I’ll hit 1 million followers. I suppose I would need to create a million twitter accounts to do that….

BTW – twitter me @geekazine

I know what you’re thinking: David Letterman going ooma? Oprah. Instead it’s: ooma? VoIP. We saw a couple Voice over IP phone solutions and this one really shows us that you can get a device and the service comes with it. Andy McCaskey has one in his home and really enjoys it.

Andy talks with Richard from ooma

Andy talks with Richard from ooma about the new innovations that the base station takes. Basically connect the station to your Internet, then connect your phone lines. In this video, we learn about the “Telo”, which was introduced at CES.

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