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Don’t Know If I Digg It

February 26th, 2008 · No Comments

In the whole scheme of this new internet, social networking, social media, Facebook, Digg, reddit, Stumble Upon, and the go to Google for everything-you-need-to-know-age - it’s as if we’ve created another realm in which we can subject and impose our subjectivity, trend-madness, collective-affirmation seeking ways.
The growing information-r-us platform which is the Internet today is an […]

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Tags: Web · Trends · Marketing

TripOutlet.com: Because everybody loves travel deals

January 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Essentially, TripOutlet.com is a place to find really, truly great travel deals.  It’s only fitting that the current slogan is “Because everybody loves travel deals”.
It’s TripOutlet’s raison d’être - TripOutlet’s reason for being.

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Facebook opens up

December 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment

To better position themselves against their new rival, Facebook announced Wednesday that they’re now allowing public access to the 3rd party applications that were, up until then, locked away from anonymous, non-Facebook visitors.As previously mentioned, this had to be their next logical step if they wanted to be competitive with Google’s OpenSocial.

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A new era in web mashups

November 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

We are pleased to announce the launch of TripAtlas.com, the largest and most complete travel resource on the Internet. We leverage wikipedia data, flickr photos, a few hundred thousand international travel agents, travel deals and a slick flash map into one nicely integrated site. You can research any travel destination in the world […]

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OpenSocial, Facebook and the socialist-democratic internet

November 10th, 2007 · No Comments

Both Google and Facebook are virtually free products that are both worth billions of dollars - and both companies promote and pioneer in online social networking.While Google offers a couple premium services of the myriad of other free services they provide, Facebook remains completely free. This means all Facebook users are equal (almost) in […]

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Smoking is stupid, energy conservation is flicking brilliant

October 20th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I’m all for campaigns that provoke, especially when they’re for high priority global issues. The Ontario government is not afraid to commit to racy campaigns in hopes of engaging its youth on issues important to the public - issues we as residents have shown our concern for at election time. And that’s great. […]

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