November 2009
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Man Arrested for Not Twittering After Mall...
When I don’t Twitter for a while (“a while” meaning, like, 12 hours), I usually just get a worried text message from my mom. But can you imagine being arrested for not Twittering? Well, that’s what happened to a VP from Island Def Jam Records this weekend.
Let’s start at the beginning — apparently, there’s a hot new 15-year-old singer called Justin...
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iCurfew Is Like FourSquare for Teens and Nervous...
TechCrunch posted today about an interesting new iPhone application called iCurfew, which allows kids to send their parents an e-mail showing their location. Sort of like FourSquare, but that only the ‘rents can see. It’s certainly an interesting idea — when my brother and I were in high school, we usually preferred to check in with my mom via text message rather than a phone...
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Twitter > The Economy?
Today, it’s been widely reported that Twitter (please note: inanimate internet space) is up for the lofty title of TIME Magazine’s “Person of The Year Award.” Twitter’s stiff competition for the accolade is none other than he-man goliath The Economy.
Aside from my individual eye-rolling (what, no person did anything noteworthy this year?), this face-off does...
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Where's My Pancakes? Not In Jail...
I bet Rodney Bradford (no relation to M Booth’s Bradford Rodney) never thought a grammatically-incorrect request for breakfast would keep him out of jail. However, the Brooklyn district attorney accepted his Facebook status update, “Where’s my pancakes,” as an alibi that proved he didn’t commit a robbery, because apparently he was at home playing on Facebook. (My...
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Kimpton Takes Online Registry to More Personalized... →
Gadling posted today about a cool new feature from Kimpton Hotels that urges members of the hotel’s frequent stay program, InTouch, to enter more personality details than just name and e-mail address when registering online.
This is a cool little survey-esque feature helps keep the brand in line with its ever popular fresh-faced approach to hospitality. The option to choose your preferred...
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Who Do Y Women Trust?
PopSugar has released a study called “Why Y Women,” which explores the way that the women of Generation Y interact with media and respond to advertising. One of the study’s key findings is that the women of Gen Y (between the ages of 18 and 34) are skeptical of the advertising constantly being flung at us and seek out authentic sources of brand opinion in order to judge what material is (or is...
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Taxi2 Partners Up Passengers for Cheap Cabs →
Here’s a great concept for travelers who don’t feel like figuring out public transit from the airport, but are too cheap to hail a cab.
Taxi2 (a “co-innovation with Virgin Atlantic”) is a site where travelers can register their flights on Virgin Atlantic or other carriers and be partnered up with another traveler who is looking to get to the same area when leaving the...
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Resenting the New Retweeting
When I logged into our M Booth Twitter account on Friday, I was greeted with this exciting message:
It’s cool that we’ve got a sneak peek at the new retweet function before most other people, but I’m not really sold on it. I’m not one of those people who freaks out every time Facebook changes its homepage and I’m really not that averse to change, but I don’t...
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Where in the World is Real Good Chair?
If you see a chair like this on the sidewalk, grab it! Inspired by the culture of “curb-mining” (finding cool things on the sidewalk and bringing it home with you), Soho furniture store Blu Dot began an experiment to track the journey of these sidewalk treasures. Beginning today, 25 of these chairs will be placed all over NYC, up for grabs for whomever spots it first. Many of these...
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Peek Seems to Be a Boo →
Andrew LaVallee of the Wall Street Journal wrote an article yesterday about the world’s first Twitter-dedicated device, developed by New York mobile startup Peek. The TwitterPeek will enable people to post and read Twitter updates on the go. I’m pretty sure that anybody needing to post and read Twitter updates on the go likely has a smartphone, no?
Could this actually make a...
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WatchYou know those annoying FreeCreditReport.com commercials with the guitar-playing guy singing a catchy song about how you can easily check your credit report online? Well, it turns out that FreeCreditReport.com isn’t exactly free (who’da thunk it, with the word “free” in the name and all?). When you sign up to receive your credit report, you have to provide your credit card...
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Whoopi Goldberg Gives a Thumbs Up to Virgin... →
Virgin Atlantic has released a “Flying Without Fear” iPhone app for travelers wary of flying high in the sky. The “course” is loaded with commentary from Richard Branson - who apparently states the facts over the fictions associated with flying - and offers exercises for relaxing while on the plane.
Not sure what is more shocking…the 98 percent success rate...
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So I was thinking...
…about what to blog about today. I thought maybe I should talk about Google Chrome, and its new bookmark-syncing capabilities — but then I realized that I truly have no clue what Google Chrome is. (Let’s be honest, you probably don’t really, either.) And I kind of sort of don’t sync stuff, so that was pretty much out. But I do want to talk about widgets....
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WatchWhether you love him or you hate him, Gary Vaynerchuck is obviously engaging. His web marketing book called Crush It is actually crushing the bestseller lists.
Anyway, here’s a clip of him being a lunatic on Fox and Friends.
-Maria
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Twitter Lists: Helpful or Exclusionary?
If you’ve logged into Twitter.com since Friday, you may have noticed an announcement at the top of your homepage that a new feature called Twitter Lists has now been rolled out to all Twitter users (some especially active users got a sneak preview a couple weeks ago). You can now create various groupings of Twitter users that you follow, and share these lists with others. This is a great...