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Andrew Mager is an associate technical producer at CBS Interactive Business, slicing mockups for BNET, ZDNet, and TechRepublic. Before coming to work in San Francisco, he was studying print & electronic journalism at Virginia Tech. With the lack of quality student media in the hills of southwest Virginia, Andrew and...- more about Andrew Mager »
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- Live: Cisco Live Blogger Meetup
- Warning: This is a live blog. Words may be misspelled. Sentences, incomplete. But the photos will be plenty, so you can't be mad either way. Cisco Live is the ultimate networking event; literally, physically, and socially. Engineers from all over the globe have...
- Tags: Meetup, Event, Cisco Systems Inc., Blogger, Cisco Live, Blogging, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- Twitter adds better friend management
- tweetmeme_url = 'http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=740'; tweetmeme_source = 'mager'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; It looks like Twitter pushed out a new design for it's friend and follower pages. There are two views: the old traditional expanded view, and the new...
- Tags: Twitter, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- Facebook makes status updates available to the public
- I am not one of those people who thinks Facebook is trying to be more like Twitter. They actually had status updates before Twitter, but they were never as public or simple as Twitter. Today, they take a step into the open statusphere by letting you publish your status updates...
- Tags: Facebook, Status, Twitter, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Boxee launches on Windows; new apps from CurrentTV, Digg, MLB.tv
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=716'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'mager'; Boxee, the on-demand streaming video platform for the desktop, has launched on Windows, along with apps and content from plenty of...
- Tags: Digg, Video, Boxee, Tumblr, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Web Site Development, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-06-24
- Twitter's next question: Where are you?
- Twitter is exploring geolocation, and just hired one of the industry's best. But do they have their priorities straight? by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Twitter, Strategy, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-06-02
- Live: Wordcamp 2009
- Developers, bloggers, editors, and writers discuss the open source blogging software Wordpress. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Open Source, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-30
- Google gives away hundreds of free Android phones to developers
- You got more than a free tee shirt if you chose to attend Google's summer web developer conference Google I/O this year. Techmeme The company handed out hundreds of HTC Ions today to eager developers, attendees, and press. The phone is packed with...
- Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Phone, I/O, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-27
- Photos: Technologizer Tweetup
- Last night, uber geek and massively popular entrepreneur Harry McCracken hosted a tweetup for his site Technologizer in Burlingame, Calif. at the Nectar Wine Lounge. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Entrepreneur, Photograph, Geek, Entrepreneurship, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Twitter: now with less noise
- Twitter's feed is cleaner now, with @replies being hidden for people you don't follow. Users are up in arms though, and #fixreplies is the top trending tag on Twitter Search. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Twitter, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Easily spam Twitter with trending topics API
- The new search sidebar on Twitter could be lethal. Hackers are using the trends API to build bots that retweet spam messages. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: API, Spam, Twitter, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-10
- TEDx: an independent cozy idea worth spreading
- You have probably watched a TED video before. It's not a normal "web seminar"; it's longer than a few minutes, but straight to the point. You can't just watch them while you are working, you have to give 100% of your focus to them. It's not a panel, and there...
- Tags: Web, Knowledge, TEDx, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Strategy, Marketing, Internet, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Talks to inspire, uniting two brain trusts: TEDx and Advance.
- TEDx combines the power of TED talks and an independently organized event. The first one is at CBS Interactive's headquarters in San Francisco tomorrow. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: TEDx, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-04
- Office Tour: Foodzie
- This is an awesome post about Foodzie's office. Check it out. by Andrew Mager
- Tags: Tour, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Seesmic Desktop delivers seamless Facebook integration
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=569'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'zdnetblogs'; Seesmic Desktop version 0.2 launched and finally integrates Facebook status right along side Twitter updates, and the interface is consistent Techmeme....
- Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Integration, Seesmic Desktop, Desktops, Channel Management, Hardware, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-03
- Follow Friday: Essential Webbies
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=551'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'zdnetblogs'; Welcome to my new #followfriday series. Each Friday I will try to share with you a few people that I enjoy following on...
- Tags: Web, Twitter, Tom Merritt, Merritt, Channel Management, Blogging, Marketing, Internet, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- Facebook Mobile copying Twitter: Subscribe to friends' status
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=543'; tweetmeme_source = 'zdnetblogs'; Today on Facebook, I noticed a new link called "Subscribe" right below a user's profile photo: ...
- Tags: Facebook, Mobile, Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- Facebook open streams, takes down walled garden
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=533'; tweetmeme_source = 'mager'; Facebook has always been known as a walled garden of social data. Until today, the only data you could access was the status updates of...
- Tags: Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- YouTube's social toolbar needs work
- Google always seems to have trouble launching a social service. Just last week, they launched a public profile product without an "add as a friend" button. Today, it's YouTube's realtime friend toolbar. It claims to allow you to see which videos your friends are watching in...
- Tags: Google Inc., Toolbar, YouTube Inc., Video, Friend, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-04-23
- Would you give up pay or benefits for someone's job?
- A friend who works at a major media company told me that his organization recently took pay cuts to avoid a layoff. I thought to myself, "Wow, these guys must really love their jobs and their company." [poll id="2"] Here are some answers I...
- Tags: Job, Layoff, Benefit, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-04-22
- Tweetmeme: Faster, more viral than Digg
- Years ago, if your site got "dugg", it would most likely crash and burn and the interesting content that everyone wanted to see would be inaccessible. If you figured out how to scale your web server though, having people Digg you brought great reward. ...
- Tags: Digg, Twitter, Web Servers, Strategy, Internet, Management, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
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