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iRefuse: Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 Makes Life After Apple Easy

AV F. posted an article on - Aug 8, 2011, 11:27 pm
With Samsung at the Galaxy Tab 10.1 booth at BlogHer '11 Almost six months ago, I upgraded my phone from an iPhone to a Motorola Atrix 4G, with AT&T. I was tired of the terrible service and, having been an AT&T consumer since I moved back to the United States in 2007, I knew that the problem wasnâ€...
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I Quit Gtalk

AV F. posted an article on - Jun 18, 2010, 8:02 pm
In 2008, a study of productivity and instant messaging (IM) discovered that IM seemed to help in increasing productivity, shocking long time proponents that chat programs were detrimental to the office. I joked at the time that this was all the reason I needed to keep chatting. The truth is, by 20...
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Worth Paying For

AV F. posted an article on - Jun 17, 2010, 10:15 pm
Some food for thought on free content from Patricia Handschiegel, owner of the cross-platform advisory startup and incubator, 9: Good things cost money to make and consumers like good things. The media/internet/etc 2.0 mindset is that everybody wants to shop at the flea market when in reality, plen...
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Jeff Jarvis and Julia Allison Discuss Sharing at IWNY

AV F. posted an article on - Jun 10, 2010, 3:19 pm
It’s Internet Week in New York (#iwNY), which means everyone’s busy discussing web culture, media consumption and media creation. Here’s a 30 minute video of a discussion between the mircrocelebrity Julia Allison and champion of the overshare Jeff Jarvis that makes points I’m probably going ...
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Business Meeting Does Not A Date Make

AV F. posted an article on - May 11, 2010, 7:06 pm
I know asking someone out is scary, but men really have to quit using the pretext of business to get a woman to have lunch with them. 1. You and 6,302 People I work from home, which basically means I don’t have the luxury of leaving work at the office. The workweek for me is seven days long –...
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Digital Beats Physical in Book Sales

AV F. posted an article on - Dec 28, 2009, 1:00 pm
Amazon has reported that it sold more digital books than physical books this Christmas. “We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted item ever in our history,” said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com. Forrester estimated that three million e-readers will be sold...
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Pepsi Bows Out of Super Bowl XLIV

AV F. posted an article on - Dec 17, 2009, 8:30 pm
PepsiCo, which was the biggest advertiser during last February’s Super Bowl broadcast, has decided to sit out the game this year and focus its resources on online advertising. This comes after 23-year streak of using the massive sports event as the centerpiece for its marketing strategy. “In 20...
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What's Happening?

AV F. posted an article on - Nov 20, 2009, 8:07 pm
I can’t remember my first tweet, but I do remember one thing–it did not answer the question “what are you doing?” Conceived originally as a mobile status service, for years Twitter operated under that prompt. “People, organizations, and businesses quickly began leveraging the open nature ...
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The Web Moves Toward Inclusion

AV F. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 6:00 pm
The Associated Press is reporting that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved the use of scripts other than the standard Latin characters for web domains. After years of debate, the decision to make the web more inclusive in this way by the nonprofit board’s...
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Internet! You're OLD!

AV F. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 12:05 pm
The question of when the internet was born is a matter of some debate, but if you go by PC World’s version of things, then the web turned 40 yesterday: On October 29, 1969, the Internet came in not with a bang, but with a “lo.” Letter by letter, UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinr...
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When Digital And Analog Don't Coincide

AV F. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 6:43 pm
Ali: Are you usually this friendly with strangers? She: Always. Ali: Any particular reason? She: A stranger is a safe place. You can tell a stranger anything. Ali: Suppose I put it in my book. She: You write fiction. Ali: So? She: So you won’t tie me to the facts. Ali: But I might tell the truth. ...
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Yes?

AV F. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here's a party for you: Sex and the 405
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