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GoldenEye for Wii Goes Focus Group Viral

GoldenEye for Wii Goes Focus Group Viral

Goldeneye 007 Trailer @ Yahoo! Video A new viral video released by the producers of a new improved version of the Nintendo video game 007 Goldeneye employs focus group video to illustrate how people feel about this game. Many people believe that GoldenEye for Nintendo 64 is the quintessential first person shooter video game, and [...]

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Farmville for iPhone

Farmville for iPhone

Steve Jobs just announced Farmville for iPhone at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference. Apparently we will be able to play Farmville on the iPhone just as we do on Facebook and there will even be push notifications for withering crops and such. I have never played Farmville, but does this mean I should start? Is [...]

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Facebook Chat Security Flaw

Facebook Chat Security Flaw

Facebook has had a number of security flubs lately, but today TechCrunch.com’s Steve O’Hear reported that the latest security flaw involves the ability to see other people’s pending friend requests and live chat messages. Ironically, the way to exploit the system is to use the “Preview my Profile” feature in the recently updated privacy settings [...]

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John Chow Dot Com Pho

John Chow Dot Com Pho

As part of my “do something that scares you daily” campaign for personal greatness I decided that I would attend one of John Chow’s Dot Com Pho Meet/Tweet-ups. This week was the Dot Com Pho Epic Sweats edition — in reference to the promo sweatpants that Epic Advertising sent to John, not anything weird or [...]

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What is Chat Roulette?

Chatroulette or Chat Roulette in the English that I know is a kind of webcam game where you are connected via webcam with random strangers from anywhere around the world. I’m not sure if this is social media hype, or if this is actually here to stay. Is chatroulette the new random socializing? It seems [...]

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FourSquare vs. GoWalla

FourSquare vs. GoWalla

After spending the last few weeks checking-in everywhere, on both FourSquare and GoWalla I have come to the conclusion that neither app does everything I want, but one emerges as the clear winner. Overview FourSquare is more like a social utility, and GoWalla more like a geocaching tool. FourSquare sends you email alerts when your [...]

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What is the point of FourSquare?

What is the point of FourSquare?

I downloaded the FourSquare app for my iPhone because I saw a friend had it through Facebook. This friend is social media savvy and I thought I should try and keep up. After downloading it and taking one look I thought to myself “what is the point of this Four Square?” I just didn’t get [...]

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Hipster Cyclocross Racing

Hipster Cyclocross Racing

This is one of the funniest hipster things I’ve seen. Two hipsters talking the finer points of smoking and cyclo-cross.  It’s hipster pretension at its best. Check out the Xtranormal site here.

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Crowdsourcing vs. Piracy

Crowd sourcing is one of the hot buzzwords in media financing right now, and is touted as one of the top solutions to the raging piracy problem that is plaguing the movie and record industries. The idea behind crowdsourcing is that the an audience puts forth financial contributions to fund a project and in a [...]

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Stephen Harper Meet Onion Ring

Poor Stephen Harper. He is the leader of our humble nation Canada, but it is with particular zeal that young Canadians seem to detest him. I’m not sure how much the average young Canadian person understands the issues that are bringing on his demise because I certainly don’t, but what does seem clear is that [...]

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