Setting “Ad Preferences” on Google

October 28, 2009

A special type of Google ad is the “interest based” ad. You are able to set your preferences to guide which types of interest based ads are displayed to you.
Watch this video, then visit google.com/ads/preferences to set your ad preferences.

If you think interest based ads is kind-of creepy, we’d love your comments.
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Google Social Search

October 27, 2009

Looking to indulge in Google Social Search?
You’ll need:

Google account
Google profile
and enter Experimental Lab

From then on when you head to Google.com (as long as you’re logged-in), you’ll see the experimental look. Search and in addition to see your normal Google results, you’ll see what your “friends” have said containing that search term.  Your “friends” are your [...]

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BarCamp Memphis – Part of a Global Community

October 26, 2009

BarCamp Memphis is about three weeks away on Nov. 14.  We’re excited to be hosting this community event again with LaunchMemphis and look to drive the value even higher than the first BarCamp Memphis a year ago.
This year, BarCamp isn’t only happening in Memphis but all over the world.  Here’s a list of cities holding [...]

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Twitter Lists

October 22, 2009

Twitter is slowly rolling out a new feature called “lists”.  Lists allow users to create channels of selected users (“MemphisBiz” for example).  If you have this feature and are a business user, we highly recommend that you create a list of all the twitterers that are your clients so that you can stay better in-touch [...]

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The human face of a global crisis

October 15, 2009

The following is a guest post by Simon Owens, who works with CARE, a non-profit organization fighting global poverty in part by helping people in the developing world adapt to climate change.
In his email to us, he wrote that “CARE has an entire area of its website dedicated to Climate Change and how it’s [...]

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Staying up on Style – AP, that is

September 30, 2009

When a newspaper or magazine makes a mistake, it’s in print forever. When an online publisher makes a mistake, it’s only there until someone notices it.
No doubt one of the great benefits of the Web is how malleable it can be; if you mess up, there’s still time to fix it. But often by the [...]

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Social Expedition October Breakfast: No need to starve like an artist

September 29, 2009

You can doodle and paint. You can figure out the name of that mystery song on the radio. You can even auto-tune yourself, all with the click of an iPhone app. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, “there’s an app for that” has become the buzz phrase for just about any functionality you [...]

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The Social Society

August 21, 2009

On August 20th, Dave Barger of LunaWeb was able to share his thoughts on the Social Web at the Society of Entrepreneurs‘ roundtable luncheon. The meetings are held monthly and feature speakers and topics geared towards Memphis businesses.
Dave was able to share his insight into Social Media, not as something that can be broken down [...]

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Facebook Searches for New Functionality

August 14, 2009

Facebook’s search tool has never been considered the crown jewel of the Social Networking site. This past week however they rolled out new functionality that breathed much-needed life into the struggling search bar.
Dave Barger of LunaWeb does a great job showing us exactly how these new additions may change the way you use Facebook:

This upgrade, [...]

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Cluetrain’s 12 Step List for Success

August 6, 2009

There are no easy hit lists of how to use Social media. It’s a different approach altogether.

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