Great stats on Social Media usage by the Real Estate industry

April 6, 2011

I’m down in Fort Morgan, AL this week for a little vacation with the family, and I’m shocked at how lazy the realtors are around here.  Like most beachfront communities, most of the homes are either for sale or rent, yet many of the sale/rent signs are broken, every “take info” box is empty, and [...]

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Cool video with a simple breakdown of how LCD screens work

April 5, 2011

Odds are, you’re reading this text on an LCD screen of some kind — a monitor, laptop, iPad, cell phone, etc.  How do those amazing screens work?  Bill Hammack, “TheEngineerGuy” just put out this short video to show how it works.  It’s amazingly complex technology, but he breaks it down and makes it fairly easy [...]

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A Day Made of Glass

April 2, 2011

Here’s a cool video from Corning showing what the future could hold.  We’ll start seeing things like this very soon, and the potential is quite exciting! I’ve thought for a while now that it’d be cool to have windows like the sunroof in her car, where you can cover it up by simply having the [...]

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Cool new social features with the Amazon Kindle

March 31, 2011

James Brooks over at ChurchDrop just posted some neat information about the new public sharing features available on the Kindle website. For a while note, you’ve been able to make notes and highlights using your Kindle and have them appear on Amazon’s site, but there was no way to make them public.  Now you can [...]

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Google introduces the “+1″ button

March 30, 2011

Google just introduced a bold new feature today that could (maybe) become quite a huge thing: +1′s. At first glance it doesn’t seem like much: when viewing search results (and related ads), you can click the “+1″ icon next to a result to show that you approve of it.  When your friends have those same [...]

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Playing Nintendo games on the Xoom using a Wii remote

March 26, 2011

I did this a while back on the Droid X, but I just realized it would probably work on the Xoom — and it does! You can play any of your old NES games on the Xoom (or any other android phone/tablet, probably), using the Wii remote to control them.  There are two apps required [...]

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Are unscheduled phone calls rude?

March 24, 2011

I’m not a big fan of phone calls.  I certainly use it as needed, but it’s gradually becoming less and less often.  Google Voice helps quite a bit, since it rids me of the pain of voicemail, but phone calls still often (but not always) seem to be a waste of time.  For example, a [...]

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LinkedIn now has over 100 million members

March 22, 2011

LinkedIn announced today that they now have 100 million members on their site — very impressive! It’s small by comparison to Twitter (200 million) and Facebook (600 million), but quite huge nonetheless. According to their blog, they’re gaining an average of about a million new users per week. Are you on LinkedIn yet? What 100 [...]

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A history of SEO with Google

March 22, 2011

Ever since Google took the throne of “world’s best search engine” a decade ago, people have worked hard to try to get their sites to rank well.  Unfortunately, many unscrupulous companies try to cheat their way to the top and Google is constantly tweaking their system in order to fight back. The folks at SEO [...]

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Firefox 4 released; much faster, some new features

March 22, 2011

While I’m still a big fan of Google Chrome, Firefox 4 came out today and has some nice improvements. The first is speed.  Chrome still is a faster browser, but Firefox is now much closer behind.  If you’re a big fan of Firefox, you’ll notice quite an improvement in speed. It also has some nifty [...]

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