Archives: 'Social Media'

reviewer — September 15, 2008, 11:02 am

Pros and Cons of an Online Degree Program

Education is so important to finding a good job and getting ahead in our competitive job market, especially now that the economy is slowing down and more businesses are looking for ways to cut costs rather than hire new faces. For a lot of people hoping to make themselves more marketable, earning or finishing [...]

reviewer — April 11, 2008, 11:00 am

A Different Kind of Game

I’ll be honest with you and confess that I have never really liked video games. They always seemed like such a waste of time to me. Usually, the players do the same thing over and over and over again and there really isn’t that much skill or brain power required to press a [...]

reviewer — April 2, 2008, 11:00 am

Passing the Passport Challenge

I love to see new places, but I really hate the hassle of getting ready to travel. I have to clean the house, pack, stop the mail, book hotels, apply for a visa and sometimes I even have to renew my passport. Renewing my passport is definitely a task that must be done [...]

reviewer — January 15, 2008, 5:17 pm

Iz walk’in on Air! New Macbook Air

Macbook air
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2GB memory
80GB 4200-rpm PATA hard drive1
Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi2 and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Ships: 2-3 weeks
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$1,799.00
Solid State
Intel Core 2 Duo processor
2GB memory
64GB solid-state hard drive1
Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi2 and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Ships: 2-3 weeks
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$3,098.00

reviewer — December 17, 2007, 2:48 pm

New Youtube interface

I know it’s not our usual fare but youtube has a new interface that’s pretty sweet. I’ve only been able to get it to show up on Safari using a mac while in full screen mode. I had a friend try to look at it on his Vista machine using firefox and it didn’t come [...]

reviewer — October 1, 2007, 4:50 pm

Redacted aka a goof

Followup on blogrush says:
Sorry, did I mention that you’re probably contributing to some blackhat SEO? Save the link that you’re clicking on and then click on the actual link, notice a difference? Me too.
While it initially appeared that there was some nefarious linking going on we have not been able to duplicate this phenomenon. [...]

reviewer — September 28, 2007, 7:45 pm

Follow up on Blogrush

Oh snap, did we say we’d follow up the next day? Well, no one’s perfect.
Webd360 added in his comments that the conversion rate was pretty low for the Blog rush application. Something that doesn’t surprise many of us. After all, who has the incentive to provide a good link? Think about it, this isn’t SEO [...]

reviewer — September 18, 2007, 5:20 pm

The Blog Rush – Not the Gold Rush

Skeptic at best, that’s the preface. Blogrush promises to increase blog traffic exponentially (sort of) by getting bloggers to add a widget to their blog that carries five other blog’s headlines.

How it works
If upforreview.com were to put the widget in the sidebar then five other blogs, in the same category as upforreview.com would have headlines [...]

reviewer — August 3, 2007, 11:55 am

Challenges of social media

Anyone who’s ever taken the time to read digg or other related user content driven sites has noticed that it’s not what news used to be. Slashdot has long been notorious for POV and headlines that exaggerate. Digg has the common problem of nonsensical descriptions.
The problem is really a lack of editors. Without a single [...]