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Facebook Lite Goes Live

September 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Social Media

After much rumor and speculation following Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed, Facebook officially launched “Facebook Lite” today. There had been rumors circulating for the past few weeks that Facebook was testing a lite interface and now you can get yours today. It’s essentially a stripped down version of Facebook, and quite frankly, I like it.  It’s [...]

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Crowdsourcing Journalism: Help A Reporter Out

September 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Social Media

Let me just say that I love crowdsourcing and crowdsourced projects. With all the things that are being crowdsourced today, one of the most interesting is the trend toward crowdsourcing journalism. On the forefront of this effort is HARO….or Help A Reporter Out. HARO is the brainchild of Peter Shankman, an entrepreneur and the CEO [...]

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Just Launched: Five Hens Mommy Blog

September 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Social Media

Well, in the last few weeks of being technically “unemployed” I’ve been helping some very cool Northern Colorado moms start their very own mommy blog called Five Hens. It’ written by five moms who have a wide range of kids from 3 to 15 and who have widely varied backgrounds. They’re all awesome writers and [...]

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Facebook Username’s are Live! What’s yours?

June 12th, 2009 · 12 Comments · Social Media

Well, it’s official now, Facebook usernames are live and doing well. In a wild frenzy to grab their custom vanity URL’s, Facebook users created over 200,000 custom user names in the first 3 minutes of Saturday morning (and yup, I was one them too). After 15 minutes, Facebook reported over 500,000 new user names. One [...]

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