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Mar 9, 2010 | One Comment |
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Mixed feelings about Avatar

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

At the Academy Awards, Ben Stiller came dressed as a native from Avatar and made the whole room crack up. The highest-grossing flick of all time only received 3 Oscars for visual effects, cinematography, and art direction.

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Feb 17, 2010 | One Comment |
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Got a Vizio Internet App TV Yet? No? Your Nana Does

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

That’s right. She picked it up over the weekend from QVC!

Vizio got a soft launch of their new WiFi Internet App TV’s out the door and with QVC. Of all the retailers that I would have expected them to court, it…

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Feb 17, 2010 | 2 Comments |
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Kopernik Sells Technology To The Developing World

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Ewa Wojkowska wants to make an Amazon-like online store for technologies for the developing world. After 10 years of working for the UN, Wojkowska was frustrated by the disconnect between the people who invent technologies and getting it to people who…

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Feb 16, 2010 | 2 Comments |
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Reflecting On Clean Tech Investments And Names

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

VC money may be going down the toilet in other areas, but clean tech seems to be doing well. But even clean tech took a hit last year— dropping by 45% from the third to fourth quarter. Now all VC eyes…

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Feb 16, 2010 | 6 Comments |
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How To Find A Good Cup of Coffee In New York!

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Over the last year, small coffee shops had slowly crept into New York. The timing couldn’t have been better. After all, the unemployeed, freelancers, and small business owners, need a comfy place to call their “office.”

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Feb 15, 2010 | No Comment |
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The Best TV Not On TV

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

From a random tweet came the best link of the day and maybe this lifetime.

Yesterday, someone that I follow had a link to “the greatest video ever about Liberia.” How could I not click it?

The best part is that they…

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Feb 15, 2010 | One Comment |
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10 Android Reads for Today

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

When I logged into my reader this morning there was one meme that was loud and clear – Android.

With Mobile World Congress going on right now in Barcelona the…

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Feb 12, 2010 | No Comment |
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The Most Important Twitter Users

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

Who are they?

They are the ones that are lurking, listening in that don’t have a vested interest in being a publisher. They have no concern over writing the missives that get re-tweeted and linked to.

The most important Twitter users are…

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Feb 12, 2010 | No Comment |
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A Voice for Twitter on Mobile from Bubble Motion

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

Startup Bubble Motion announced a new product called Bubbly for those that want to create tweets with their voice and have them sent back to them as SMS and audio.

The product is aimed at those…

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Feb 11, 2010 | One Comment |
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Startup Tip: All Kinds of Shoes

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

Over at WebUrbanist they have a great post up this morning that focuses on wild shoes designs. Wild as in crazy, not what the Yettis wear.

After getting half of the way through the piece and realizing that all of these…

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Feb 11, 2010 | No Comment |
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The Chinese Are Coming With Slates and Tablets

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

If the iPad is going to cause any sort of revolution in computing it is going to be the massive choices that people will have to buy non-Apple slates.

The number of announced slates for Android, MS and Linux is gaining everyday.…

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Feb 10, 2010 | No Comment |
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Mindstorm Making Stuff You Can Touch

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

When it comes to surface computing there hasn’t been anything that has gotten much attention since Microsoft ventured in with their ill-fated industry event show pony.

You could, um, put you hands on it and move pre-chosen images or get real…

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Feb 10, 2010 | No Comment |
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Be Smart Don’t Be Stupid With Campaigns

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

For the last two weeks Diesel has been running banners all over the internet with the tagline “BE STUPID”.

I’m not sure they could have chosen a worse way to represent their brand. Even offline this is a…

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Feb 10, 2010 | One Comment |
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Buzz for a Better You?

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

Let’s be honest here. We should all be honest. Google shapes our world view.

They are the information hub for most of us. What we search for and what they then return to us is chosen by computer…

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Feb 9, 2010 | One Comment |
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Social Media Expert Save Thyself

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

Now, more than ever, social media experts are on notice. The days of free flowing indiscreet self-inflating webernet titles has come to an end.

And it is about time.

The Problem

These clods found their way to expert level by signing up…

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Feb 9, 2010 | No Comment |
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So . . . This Google Buzz Thing

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

Will I take a swipe at it? You bet.

Google should have paid whatever Twitter was asking to be bought out.

Buzz is a great product and something Google can hang its hat and near future success for competing with…

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Feb 9, 2010 | No Comment |
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Google Feeling the Heat

By Senior Editor Kris Smith (@croncast)

Eric Schmidt might have said in a tweet that “Hell has indeed frozen over.” That in response to their Super Bowl ad.

It might have had to freeze over for them to run an ad like this but they…

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Feb 8, 2010 | One Comment |
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Inspiration: Challenge Concepts for Innovation

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

If you really want to know what made the iPhone such a game changing device you need look no further than the fact that it challenged every concept of what a mobile phone was.

By challenging concepts and executing ideas…

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Feb 8, 2010 | 5 Comments |
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From Bing to Duck Duck Go

By Senior Editor – Kris Smith (@croncast)

A couple of months ago I dropped Google as my default browser search and switched over to Bing.

Yesterday, I gave up on Bing and moved on to Duck Duck Go.

I’ve had…

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Feb 5, 2010 | No Comment |
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The Strange World of Digital Stalking on Facebook

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Anyone who put their doppelgänger up just showed their Facebook friends how narcissistic they really are. Unlike real-life habits, you can’t see how other people spend their time online.

Some people innocently lurk and passively read people’s status updates. It’s…

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