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Twitter for Grannies

Posted by dr.pixel on December 12, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Fun, Tools tagged with

Tweeting via Fax Machine Dorothy Miller has hopped on the Twitter bandwagon, but the 80-year-old grandmother doesn’t use a computer or mobile device to update her status. Nope, Dorothy tweets away with the help of a fax machine and a New York-based service called Celery. Celery allows users, many of them computer-phobic senior citizens, to submit tweets, blog entries, Facebook updates or emails via fax machine and then posts the content onl

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Digital Strangelove

Posted by dr.pixel on December 12, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Inspiration tagged with

I had the absolute pleasure of stumbling upon a tweet from @BuzzEdition today that directed me to a Slideshare slide show entitled “Digital Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Internet)”, by David Gillespie. At this time of writing it’s been online for 2 weeks, had around 35,000 views, 350 favs and 240 embeds.

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Great Digital BillBoard

Posted by dr.pixel on December 12, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Inspiration tagged with ,

Toyota has released a new iPhone app that attempts to educate as well as advertise the features of the Prius car… in particular it’s Draw feature is the funkiest as it allows you and your iPhone to interact with a large screen over in Times Square New York. When you have downloaded the application you load it up and draw on the screen. Your drawings are then thrown up on to the huge screen and mixed with the Prius. Other features of the Pr

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A Day in the Internet

Posted by dr.pixel on December 12, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Fun tagged with ,

Created by Online Education

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What if Google ruled the World

Posted by dr.pixel on December 12, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Fun tagged with ,

Google has already monopolized the world wide web, leading in several markets such as search, email (Gmail), mapping (Google Maps/Earth/Street View) and video (YouTube). If Sergey Brin and Larry Page are ’sick and tired’ of the online business, maybe they would consider venturing out to other non-tech-related businesses, and grab a slice of the pie in the the auto, airline, or even the entertainment industry. Below are some pictures of what w

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Can you afford it?

Posted by dr.pixel on December 12, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Social Media tagged with

Can you afford not to have your brand on Twitter? One of the objections that I hear often whenever Twitter is mentioned as an integral part of an overall integrated marketing and customer service strategy, is: “We don’t have the resources for this.” This from companies who spend thousands – sometimes even millions of Euros on automatic systems that only serve to get users frustrated. The other common lament is “If we go in there we

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Facts about Social Media

Posted by dr.pixel on December 12, 2009 in Dr.Pixel, Social Media tagged with , ,

Back in the earlier days we used the term “e-Business”. Web sites were commonly prefaced with the letter ‘e’. Products and services were e-this and e-that. But what business is not ‘e’? It didn’t take long for the ‘e’ to drop. We quickly realized how redundant and useless that little prefix was. It provided no additional information to any word because the fact was – everything was ‘e’. The ‘Social’ in ‘Social Med

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