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Now you don’t have to give up your Crackberry habit to get your ‘Kindle On!’ Amazon has launched a Kindle Application for Blackberry owners so they too can purchase and read eBooks from the Kindle Library, with just a tap from the finger.

Well, it was bound to happen. As popular as location-based services are becoming, it didn’t take long for the Spamalot Brigade to step in for a little menace and mayhem

We know about ad deals based on impressions and  we are familiar with banner ads and pop-ups. Google Adsense opened us up to cost per clicks. But as social networking moves from the desktop to mobile devices are we ready to engage in a brand new business model ☞ Cost Per Check-in

As an online editorial cartoonist, I pay homage here to some of the finest new and established cartoonists that are focusing their editorial commentary on social media. Like myself, many of these cartoonists have found the Web 2.0 world is just as exciting and newsworthy as political commentary

On January 31, 2010, as a first-of-its-kind interactive fan experience, the 52nd Annual Grammy Award Show will rank the popularity of nominated artists.

Back in September, I predicted that Twitter would acquire oneforty.com, ” the Twitter Store of Apps ,” where one could shop to his or her heart’s content for any app under the Twitter sun. Not only did that prediction come to past, but today, oneforty is juggling the launch of its Premium Twitter App marketplace with a $1.85 million dollar round of funding.

In a recent blog, titled “The Secret Wars of Google & Apple…” there was inference that both Google and Apple were being secretive about their soon-to-be launched tablet and netbook this Spring. The term ‘war’ was used loosely to highlight how the two companies fight hard to keep their products under wraps before releasing any news to the public.

When you can’t get things done the way you’d like them done – Diversify, Diversify, Diversify! Google staying true to itself…that is, doing whatever it bloody well likes – has applied for approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to be allowed to buy and sell power much like utilities do.

Now that Microsoft is reportedly going to show off their own slate/tablet computing device, the eReader vs Multimedia device “game” is on! eReaders like Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes and Noble’s Nook and Sony’s Readers are fine for ‘reading,’ but if you want to multi-task, you’ll find they come up short every time. Apple’s soon-to-be released iSlate/ tablet and Google’s reported launch of a netbook, coupled with Microsoft, could initiate a technological shift as to which type of device is going to take center stage.

While Google Analytics is ubiquitous for tracking Web site traffic, it lacks in real-time analytics.  Similar to how real-time search escaped Google’s grasp until it’s recent partnership deals with Twitter and Facebook, the grand-daddy of search engines hasn’t yet been able to put its collective brain trust around real-time web stats.