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Been There, Did It

    Social media tech firm Ludic Labs raised $5 million in funding from Accel Partners, KPG Ventures and a number of private investors. The San Mateo, California-based start-up also launched a new community site called Diddit to give us an idea of what they're up to (as in "been there, did it.") Diddit allows users to share their experiences with communities of interested parties including everything from trying new restaurants to visiting national monuments to snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef. There are 23…
February 13, 2009
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Non-Profits utilize YouTube to educate and build awareness

Today, there are millions of people using the YouTube as an alternative form of education and entertainment.  For example, you can learn almost any guitar song from an instructor for FREE by typing in the name of the song and including the terminology lessons or tablature.  It is recommended that non-profits consider setting up there own Channel and begin encouraging members, partners, teachers and other alliances to contribute content and comments on the channel to build awareness and education. Above,…
February 12, 2009
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What can Non-Profits learn from YMCA about online marketing?

The December 2008 Capital One Bank Dallas YMCA Turkey Trot, the nation’s largest Thanksgiving Day race with more than 33,500 participants, using Web 2.0 tools to achieve the event’s highest ever number of online registrations. This year’s Turkey Trot handled 13,234 online registrations, a 50 percent increase compared to the previous year. The race also set a single-day record for the number of online registrations with 1,200 participants signing-up via the Internet, an increase of more than 80 percent compared…
February 12, 2009
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The Arrival of Kindle2

Amazon held a big to-do at the Morgan Library Museum in New York yesterday to unveil its next generation eBook reader--the Kindle 2!--which will begin shipping from Amazon on February 24. One of the most hotly anticipated consumer electronic devices since the iPhone, the new Kindle adds some attractive new features including a much thinner profile, longer battery life, a crisper display and text-to-speech capabilities powered by Nuance that will allow readers to have books read to them by a computerized voice. The…
February 10, 2009
Development

I Spy, You Spy, Google Spy

Is Google crossing the privacy line? Some are saying so, and Google Earth is still a controversy for those who value privacy of the home. Google’s new mobile mapping app Latitude allows users to take advantage of GPS technology to pull up friends' locations whenever they're phones are turned on. The application, bundled in with the newest version of Google Maps, is currently accessible on the Android-powered G1 phone, most color BlackBerry's and many Windows Mobile smart phones and will…
February 5, 2009