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Twitter as “The New Google”

March 25, 2008

Nathania Johnson recently wrote a post for SearchEngineWatch.com called Is Twitter the New Google Alternative? In it, she reports on a number of people (including my wife) who are using Twitter as a means of finding information, much as one would use a standard search engine such as Google or Yahoo. Instead of (or in [...]

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Twitter, Wiki as feedback tools for event organizers

March 14, 2008

During a recent session of the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX, the popular social networking application Twitter played a fairly prominent role. In fact, the widespread use of the application by a number of attendees actually served to simultaneously disrupt the session and provide an impromptu outlet for the attendees' frustration with what they [...]

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Microsoft Word’s form capabilities

March 13, 2008

I recently saw this post about how to create simple forms in Microsoft Word, and use them to collect data. I was glad to learn about this feature of Word (and surprised that I didn't already know about it), but I played around with it a little and did not find it intuitive at all. [...]

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Statistics in iPhone article unnecessarily confusing

February 16, 2008

The Financial Times recently reported that Google “had seen 50 times more searches on Apple’s iPhone than any other mobile handset,” a pretty impressive statistic, and one on which a number of bloggers and tech watchers have commented. One of these is Seth Weintraub, of Computerworld, and while his post adds some interesting comments to [...]

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