Clips from the Sh*t My Dad Says Pilot [VIDEO]

Clips from the Sh*t My Dad Says Pilot [VIDEO]

I might have to start an account on, "Office time..." So much to talk about... lol Congrats to the guy who made his dad a star and also got rich with it.

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If Browsers Were Transportation

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Casas Con Marcas / My Mom's Magazine in Dominican Republic

Open publication - Free publishing - More revista

Social Media Marketer SPANISH

SMM es una forma de hacer marketing por internet en donde las companias buscan alcanzar el objetivo de hacer comunicacion de su plan de mercadeo participando en varias redes de medios sociales como MySpace, Facebook, Youtube, Hi5 y otras applicaciones sociales de la web (webapps) como Digg, stumbleupon, Flickr, iLike, Wikepedia, twitter etc. O como tambien Mundos Virtuales 3D como Second Life. El Goal de un SMM es programar una campana que va a diferir en el negocio o la organizacion, construyendo ideas o reconocimiento de marca creciendo la visibilidad y empujando a los usuarios a expresarse y a dialogar acerca del servicio o producto. SMM tambien incluye manejar la reputacion de una compania online.

Los medios sociales es cuando los websites ponen sus noticas, photos, videos y podcast y estan hosteados en otro servidor. Tipicamente estos websites utilizan estos mecanismos en donde le permiten al usuario votar por sus contenidos convirtiendolos en populares.

SMM esta relacionada con algunas tacticas de marketinf online como SEO (search engine optimizacion, Search Engine Marketing, Viral Marketing, de boca en boca (Word of Mouth Marketing), y Social Media Optimization. Algunos creen que los Social Media Optimization (SMO) son mas pasivos en su rol social otros creen que tomas los principios de los SEO's aplicandolos en Los websites sociales. SMM es mas activo planea roles directos, influencian o sugieren a sus miembros a conectarse y a crear contenidos.

As Facebook Prepares To Launch “Places,” Foursquare Improves “Places” — Coincidence?

As Facebook Prepares To Launch “Places,” Foursquare Improves “Places” — Coincidence?: "

As we reported over the weekend, Facebook is gearing up to launch a new “Places” tab on (at least) the mobile version of its site. This new area is likely to contain a list of venues close to your current location that you can check-in to. Yes, it’s basically what you do on Foursquare (and several other location-based services). That’s why Foursquare’s announcement today that they’ve made their own “Places” area “smarter” shouldn’t come as a big surprise.

On its blog today, Foursquare notes that users should see improvements to the venues that show up in their own Places area on their mobile apps (and through their API). Basically, they’re starting to look at venue popularity, time of day, and category to determine which venues to show a user. For example, if it’s noon on a weekday, a restaurant may be a more likely destination than a movie theater. This should help with the problems some users face not being able to find the appropriate venue at first glance because there are simply too many venues around them.

Or, as Foursquare puts it, “We have sophisticated algorithms that balance all of these factors to present you the best possible list of venues so that you spend less time searching and more time enjoying wherever you’ve checked in.”

If Facebook is prepared to launch its own Places area, you have to believe they think they’ve done a good job populating it with venues so people can use it at launch. Or maybe (and I’m just speculating here), Facebook is using Foursquare’s API to help populate these venues (as I noted, the new changes do affect the API as well).

Either way, if they’re directly competing or helping one another out, it’s a smart move for Foursquare to improve the check-in experience. Until we have a unified places database (which may never happen despite a lot of people working on it), the ability to pull up the correct venues quickly will be a differentiating factor between all of these location services.

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While Everyone Bitches, Facebook’s New Social Plugins Surpass 100,000 Installs

Facebook Connect launched in late 2008. And now, a year and a half later, some 250,000 sites around the web are using it. Meanwhile, Facebook’s new social plugins (the kind using the new Open Graph) have been out for three weeks. Already, those are on over 100,000 sites Facebook confirmed today.

That’s pretty amazing when you think about it. At this rate, it will take just a couple months for these new social plugins to permeate the web in the same way that Facebook Connect took a year and a half to do. And it seems to suggest that while millions of users seem to be outraged by some of the privacy issues, and the media is ripping Facebook apart for the tools, most content providers on the web don’t seem to care. Or they do, but the lure of connecting with Facebook’s nearly 500 million users is simply too strong.

In a post on its developer blog, Facebook doesn’t address the privacy issues of the new features (most of which are related to the “Instant Personalization” feature which is separate from the simple plugins) at all. Instead, they choose to accentuate the positive, noting that thanks to the ease-of-use of these new plugins, adoption is growing at this incredible rate. This is apparently exactly what they were hoping for. Two weeks ago, Facebook announced that 50,000 sites had integrated the plug-ins, and now that has already doubled. This means that Facebook is getting billions of impressions every single day thanks to this adoption.

“We think the story behind these stats is more important than the stats themselves. As we’ve found on Facebook, people share, read, and generally engage more with any type of content when it’s surfaced through friends and people they know and trust. The results above support this. We’re bringing activities that have been social in the offline world, such as sharing news, reviews, and sports enthusiasm, and giving sites a way for their users to experience their content with friends,” Justin Osofsky writes on the Developer Blog.

As we noted last night, there are some very real security holes in the new “Instant Personalization” features. Facebook was able to shut this one down quickly, but you can probably expect to see more issues as the feature becomes more and more popular on the web.

And it will keep getting more and more popular because we’ve entered the Age of Facebook. For each person out there bitching about the new features, seemingly dozens are quietly installing the code to link their site to Facebook’s graph. They’re taking over.

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6 Reasons Google Talk Is The Best Free Instant Messaging Service

I have to admit, I’ve bounced around among countless free Instant Messaging services. I started out chatting, like many geeks, on the popular IRC chat rooms or the MUDD online gaming communities of the 1990s – straight from an IBM dumb terminal in the college computer clusters. As the Internet progressed and the recent “Web 2.0″ surge produced a surplus of IM engines, I tested the waters, like everyone else.

First, I started with Skype so that I could get the benefit of free telephone calls. When the “free” part gradually disappeared and other free instant messaging services started offering VoIP support, I began branching out – trying Yahoo IM, MSN Chat, and most recently gTalk.

My immediate reaction when I first tried gTalk was – is that it? Is that the best that Google can do? However, it didn’t take long to realize that the power in gTalk isn’t so much its size or functionality, but instead its portability. You can use it anywhere and everywhere, and if you use other Google services, it’s integrated into many of them.

In this post, I’d like to show you 6 very cool ways that you can access your gTalk service no matter where you are.

Install gTalk Chat For Desktop

The obvious solution is to install gTalk as a standalone desktop application on your PC. This is the way that I access my gTalk account whenever I’m home and working on my laptop. It’s non-intrusive, convenient and I can still surf the web and work on other applications while I have gTalk open off to the side.

The beauty of this desktop version of gTalk is the fact that when you open a new chat, it opens as a small, detached sub-window, which you can move around and place in any part of the screen that you’re not using at the moment.

This allows you to fit your individual gTalk chats in between the many other windows that you’re working with, so you won’t lose valuable, productive time even if you have a chat going on (although it may be difficult to get your work done…)

Install The gTalk Browser Addon

There are also times when I just don’t want a bunch of applications running on my PC, or I may be using my wife’s mini-laptop that doesn’t have a whole lot of expendable memory. In these situations, installing the gTalk sidebar for Firefox is the best solution.

When you install the gTalk sidebar plugin, all you have to do is type Alt-G (or use the included Bookmark) and your gTalk friend list sits on the left side of your browser window – allowing you to keep your active chats conveniently located to the left of the online work that you’re doing.

When you open a new chat, it simply opens in the same sidebar space, but with a small tab so that you can quickly switch between all of the chats that you have open, but it doesn’t take up any additional screen space.

Use gTalk In Gmail

Gmail is actually the first place that I learned about gTalk. I had no idea that the IM even existed until it showed up as an automatic feature within Gmail. That’s when I started exploring gTalk and all that it has to offer. Gmail also seems to be the place where there are more features available than many other gTalk platforms.

The app shows up in the lower left corner of your Gmail account. In reality, it’s much like the sidebar browser plugin, except that Gmail works in just about any browser, and you’re also limited to using it only within the window or tab where you have Gmail open. When you do open up a chat with a friend, the chat window opens up in a box at the lower right corner of your Gmail window.

Now that I’ve covered the three most popular ways to access your gTalk service, I’d like to mention three more reasons why I love gTalk so much, and to show how many additional ways you can access gTalk no matter where you are.

Connect To gTalk In Digsby

Ever since the multitude of free instant messaging engines invaded the Internet, a mix of services started up that could aggregate all of your IM chat accounts into one place. The two most popular ones that lead the pack include Trillian and Digsby. You will find that whether you use Trillian, Digsby or any other of these services, gTalk is almost always included on the list of IM engines you can access, while many other IM services are hit or miss.

Personally, I prefer Digsby. From within Digsby, just go to Tools -> Preferences and select IM Account. Then, add your Google Talk account as shown. It takes seconds, and all of your gTalk contacts will immediately show up in your Digsby contacts window.

Connect To gTalk At Work With CommunicationTube

Another method that you can use to access gTalk is from a web based IM service that aggregates all of your IM services within your browser. Meebo is definitely the most popular one of these, but with its popularity comes limitations.

Most large employers have already added Meebo to the corporate filter – so you can forget about chatting on Meebo during your lunch break. However, there’s a scaled down version now available called CommunicationTube, or cTube for short.

Here’s the main page where you can use the cTube gTalk solution.

Why use this over the Meebo solution? Simple – the scaled down approach lets you use this regardless which computer you’re on – at a friend’s house, an Internet cafe or at school.

The main page lists several major advantages to using this service, including the following.

• Small footprint – No installs, no Java and no ActiveX.


• Low bandwidth – The service uses AJAX and auto-refreshes your chat.


• Private – The service accesses your IM accounts through CGI proxy services, making it possible to access your gTalk account even if gTalk is blocked at work or school.

Access Mobile gTalk On Your Android

Last, but not least, when you need ultimate portable chatting and if you own an Android mobile phone, then you can download a mobile version of Google Talk right from the Android Market. Since I’m almost always on the road, I use this service constantly to chat real time with research colleagues or manage communications with writers and clients.

Click on any of your online contacts and immediately open up a real time chat. Best of all, if you’re using a Motorola Droid with multi-tasking, you can switch between your active chat screen and check email or use your GPS mapping applications. Switching between apps is a breeze with the Droid!

Do you have any other ways to access gTalk? Are there any unique applications with gTalk integrated into it that are missing from this article? Share your own love for gTalk in the comments section below!

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