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Google Buzz Blogging Is Real Real-Time

By Kurt | Published: March 4, 2010
I’ve been advocating Google Buzz as a blogging platform since its start early last month and posted a general example of a Buzz Blog about two weeks ago. After writing my first true Buzz Blog post yesterday, a review of the iPhone Buzz client Buzzie, I am even more convinced that Buzz is a powerful, real-time [...]
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Take Control of Facebook Game Applications | Update #3

By Kurt | Published: March 1, 2010
Updated March 1, 2010. This blog writing was originally published in December of last year and now reflects changes to Facebook’s user interface since then. Despite the below information being widely distributed across the internet and residing within Facebook itself, I still come across folks on social networks, almost daily, who complain about Facebook game apps. [...]
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Google Buzz: The Superior Sharing Network

By Kurt | Published: February 18, 2010
Content is everything across social media and unless you’re a very influential person, it’s going to take more than a string of plain text to inspire folks to look at what you have to say. Sharing well-crafted, media-rich posts in the places where people gather is an effective way to find others who share your interests [...]
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Tagging Rancho Santa Fe With Geo-Graffiti

By Kurt | Published: February 14, 2010
Last night on Google Buzz my friend and neighbor Sam Afifi suggested that we tag our town with graffiti — high-tech virtual graffiti.  His idea was to use Buzz tags to create a peace symbol around the central village of Rancho Santa Fe, California.  I thought the idea was subtly subversive and agreed.  Below is [...]
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