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Facebook to launch vanity URLs - because that's really what we need

Facebook to launch vanity URLs - because that's really what we needIt's All Vanity AnywayAll these people with their Facespaces and bliggity blogs and twiddily tweetering are vain anyway. That is why these services are so successful. It allows you to think people really care about your photos...

Tags: SEARCH, Facebook, vanity

Discussion threads 2009-06-09

Would you pay for a vanity URL on Facebook?

Would you pay for a vanity URL on Facebook?For a personal site, no. However...for someone with a web startup, it would be one more may to generate interest, hits etc. towards a money generating site.That said you will have people interested in having one for the same reason they would...

Tags: Facebook, vanity

Discussion threads 2009-04-23

BlackBerry as a phone: newer models seem to be improving

BlackBerry as a phone: newer models seem to be improvingVanity has stopped used of BB as a phoneuntil the Pearl etc. I install these in a large international bank and the comment i got all the time, especially with the 7200 series and the old 6700 series, was "i...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, phone, RIM BlackBerry, Vanity

Discussion threads 2007-03-01

Additional Resources

Nokia Mural 6750 (AT&T)

Photo gallery: Nokia Mural 6750Nokia has given U.S. carriers an interesting selection of cell phones over the past few months. We've seen quality music phones, quirky square models, and basic handsets just for making calls. The newest device to land on our desk, the Nokia Mural 6750 for AT&T, falls...

Tags: Engineering, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, AT&T Corp., Mural, Nokia Corp., phone

Product reviews 2009-10-16

Newest Twitter phishing attack is not 'rofl'-worthy

Looks like the bad guys are up to it again. Or still. Or again. Twitter is being inundated with warnings about a new phishing attempt that tries to take advantage of, you guessed it - user vanity and sense of humor. The new attempt, after taking hold...

Tags: Twitter Inc., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Corporate Communications, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-09-23

What ever happened to the withering RIA market?

RIA ended up as toys, not toolsThe other things that happened to RIA were security and abuse of the user.Most RIA applications loose on the Web are simple toys, not useful to the viewer for the most part. Some of the few successes like Netflix VOD are characterized by heavy...

Tags: rich Internet application

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

Sonim XP3 Quest (unlocked)

Photo gallery:Sonim XP3 QuestThe Sonim XP3 Quest is the update to the Sonim XP1 that we reviewed last year. If you thought the XP1 was strong--and believe us when we say that it was--the XP3 goes a step further by being completely waterproof like the G'zOne handsets. If that isn't...

Tags: Cellular phones, display, keypad button, battery cover, Sonim XP3 Quest, XP3, Sonim XP1

Product reviews 2009-08-31

The price factor

Prices and profitsCompetition is supposed to erode ALL excessive profits, so that is what is happening. PCs (incl. Apple) have largely become commodity products, which makes it almost impossible to compete on anything BUT price.And why so obsessed about quality? We throw away millions of WORKING PCs every year because...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Strategy, price factor, Toshiba Corp., notebook, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

Tweet Reel 1.1 (Mobile)

Tweet Reel lets you shoot pictures and video on your iPhone, upload them to TweetReel.com, and share them on Twitter. Tweet Reel gives your media a home on the web with a Twitter-style vanity URL. Tweet Reel sends out a Tweet at the same time you upload so that your...

Tags: Mobile, Video, Photograph, Colin Tulloch, Tweet Reel, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-06

Google Voice only gets better with launch of mobile app

Google Voice was already a game-changer when it re-emerged a few months ago with a new look and some new features. Now, with the addition of mobile apps for Blackberry and Android phones of which there are expected to be many more later this year, the service becomes that much...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Voice, GV, Telecom & Utilities, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-15

Are we falling out of love with the Dell Adamo?

Next Friday marks the four-month anniversary of the proper debut of Dell's Adamo luxury ultraportable laptop, and it occurred to me recently that Dell hasn't done much since then to promote or reposition the ultra-premium notebook. What happened? ...

Tags: Apple MacBook Air, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Adamo, Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Vanity 1.2 (Mobile)

Because more and more vanity-numbers are applied for, we've got a little tool, which will calculate the vanity-number you want. Just put in a name or text and you will get the belonging telephone number.

Tags: Phone, Mobile, TipWare, Telecom & Utilities, Productivity

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Now's the time to manage your online brand

"Managing a Brand through Social Networks" sounds like it should be a training course designed for corporate marketing professionals. Such a course, though, might as well be targeted at an average Joe or Jane, the everyday person who - intentionally or not - is building an online brand of his...

Tags: Facebook, Brand, Network, Privacy Setting, Social Networking, Branding, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-06

Facebook's privacy settings: users get more control as wall gets torn down

Facebook is preparing to roll out new privacy settings - some of which includes tearing down the closed Facebook wall and opening the data to the general public. (Statement, Techmeme) But before anyone goes into panic mode, it's important to note that the company is going to...

Tags: Facebook, Wall, Construction, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Google Voice Gets Presence

While Google Voice may revolutionize personal communications directing calls to the phone number of choice, businesses will find the service too simplistic for many of their needs. Yesterday, On-State Communications may have solved that problem by presence-enabling Google Voice. Now small companies can leverage the newest free Google Service...

Tags: Google Inc., Phone, Mobile, Voice, On-State Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-07-01

Too many social networks? GizaPage puts them all into one social home page

In case you hadn't heard, all the cool kids are going "vanity" these days - vanity Facebook URLs, vanity phone numbers on Google Voice and now vanity social networking pages where all of your profiles, from Facebook and Twitter to Flickr and YouTube, can be viewed and managed from one...

Tags: Facebook, Network, GizaPage, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-30

News to know: Yahoo, Windows 7, Palm, AMD, Blackberry Tour, Netbook

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Bartz to Yahoo shareholders: Change is coming; We're not Google Yahoo: Showtime for shareholders this morning ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Palm Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-06-26

Google Voice invitations, with vanity phone numbers, coming soon

First, Facebook allowed users to grab a vanity URL for their profile pages. Now, Google is giving people a chance to choose a vanity phone number. The invitations for the long-awaited Google Voice service are coming soon, Google said in a blog post today. And this time,...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Motorola Evoke QA4

Photo gallery:Motorola Evoke QA4We're not quite sure what to make of the Motorola Evoke QA4. Though it offers a touch screen, a full HTML browser, and an appealing slider design, it hardly qualifies as either a smartphone or a multimedia powerhouse like the Samsung Eternity. Also, while we appreciate its...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, widget, Motorola Inc., touch screen, Cricket Wireless

Product reviews 2009-06-23

The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .

Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...

Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-06-20