What Will Apple Reveal Next Week?

When Apple makes an announcement about a coming press event it can sometimes feel like the National Hurricane Center has identified a new hurricane.lol

There is usually rampant speculation surrounding the importance and impact of the event: Will it be a Category 5 announcement with a revolutionary device, or....

HOW TO: Use Twitter Hashtags to Boost Your Job Search

About 300 to 500 jobs are posted on Twitter per minute, according to Carmen Hudson, CEO and co-founder of Tweetajob. With that many shared opportunities, the task of filtering information becomes daunting — that’s why we have hashtags. They can help you focus on the tweets you want to see along with the ones you didn’t even know existed.

Hudson, whose company sends job tweets that match a job seeker’s location and career interests, says the numbers are true but come with a caveat. “Many of these jobs are duplicates, or from aggregators. It’s likely the number of real opportunities could be much lower. There is quite a bit of ‘job pollution’ on Twitter, because the job boards and many employers don’t target their job tweets.”

Nonetheless, the jobs are still there. The key is finding them. As a way to filter through the noise, Hudson recommends job seekers use hashtags to take full advantage of Twitter’s search functionality.

Here are six hashtag categories that might be useful in a job search, along with some examples of what you could look for. For those who are new to Twitter or just need a refresher, check out this overview of hashtags.

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General Job Search

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Hashtags such as #jobs, #jobadvice, #jobhunt and #jobsearch offer both job openin...

This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Dollars!!!! Yes, in Dollars!

Stuart Hughes, the British jeweler known for his expensive remakes of popular gadgets, is at it again, this time with a diamond-clad iPhone 4 with a price tag of 5 million pounds, or roughly $8 million.

The handmade bezel contains approximately 500 individual flawless diamonds that total more than 100 carats; there’s 53 additional diamonds in the back, and the main navigation button is made of platinum, holding a single cut 7.4 carat pink diamond. If you know diamonds, all of this probably means something to you; to us, it just sounds really, really expensive.

Only two of these will ever be made, so don’t worry: if you buy one, the chances of bumping into someone who has the exact same phone at a party are quite slim.

Money men dem....

Tech: The Average Teenager Sends 3,339 Texts Per Month.

If you needed more proof that texting is on the rise, here’s a stat for you: the average teenager sends more than 3,000 texts per month. That’s more than six texts per waking hour.

According to a new study from Nielsen, our society has gone mad with texting, data usage and app downloads. Nielsen analyzed the mobile data habits of more than 60,000 mobile subscribers and surveyed more than 3,000 teens during April, May and June of this year. The numbers they came up with are astounding.

The number of texts being sent is on the rise, especially among teenagers age 13 to 17. According to Nielsen, the average teenager now sends 3,339 texts per month. There’s more, though: teen females send an incredible 4,050 texts per month, while teen males send an average of 2,539 texts. Teens are sending 8% more texts than they were this time last year.

Other age groups don’t even come close, either; the average 18- to 24-year-old sends “only” 1,630 texts per month. The average only drops with other age groups. However, in every age bracket, the number of texts sent has increased when compared to last year. Texting is a more important means of communication than ever.

In 2008, the main reason anybody got a phone was for

Facebook co-founder Sean Parker donates $100,000 to marijuana (aka BANGA) legalization measure in California

Sean Parker Co-Founder of Facebook (played by Justin Timberlake in the Facebook movie)

Justin Timberlake plays Parker in the Facebook movie: The Social Network, which portrays him as a hotshot who convinces Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to push out his friend from the burgeoning company.

The 30-year-old served as Facebook's first president and helped transform the company from dorm-room project to big business. Parker and Moskovitz have become household names since the recent release of "The Social Network." The film chronicling the contentious origins of Facebook was No. 1 at

Acquiring Adobe Wouldn’t Help Microsoft Fight Apple

The rumors are swirling today about a secret meeting between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. While a meeting between the heads of two tech giants isn’t uncommon, reports say that they discussed a possible Microsoft acquisition of Adobe.

That is what we call a potential game changer. The question is whether it changes the game in favor of Microsoft and Adobe, or whether it benefits their main rival, Apple.

The chatter stems from a report in The New York Times. According to the publication, Ballmer arrived with a small entourage at Adobe’s offices to discuss Apple and its increasing influence over the mobile market via the iPhone.

Microsoft, which has lost significant chunks of the mobile market in recent years, is trying to make a big comeback through Windows Phone 7. Adobe on the other hand suddenly became mortal enemies with Apple after Apple banned Flash from the iPad.

What’s really got the markets stirring though is how the two companies might res

Tech: Facebook has now made it possible to download all of the content and information that you have added to Facebook

Check out this video Facebook created explaining the new feature.

Facebook announced a number of new initiatives, including Groups, application control and better data portability at the company’s event today.


On the data portability front, Facebook has now made it possible to download all of the content and information that you have added to Facebook. This means that you can download your photos, videos, wall posts, conversation threads and status updates.


This information will then be prepared and downloadable as zip file. Rather than just getting all of the data in a structureless archive, the data can be viewed in your web browser and will be easy to access and sort through.


This is a pretty big step for Facebook, a platform that has often been criticized for acting as a walled garden. The ability to get your information out of Facebook, if for no other reason than to make copies or backups of photos and videos, is a solid move toward being more open and transparent.

Tech: Facebook Unveils New “Groups” Feature

At a live press conference held at its headquarters in Palo Alto Thursday, Facebook executives unveiled the newest addition to the service: a new Groups feature that allows users to create public and private groups to participate in communal activities, such as group chat, e-mail and photo-tagging, as well as document sharing and collaborative editing.
The startup rolled out two additional features as well: the ability to download all of the data users have uploaded to Facebook, as well as a new applications dashboard to help users keep track of what kinds of information applications are collecting.

The Future of Event Planning and Social Media: Leveraging the Magic of Twitter

I just saw this and thought I should share with my fellow geeks..u know..future billionaires. Enjoy!

For many, Twitter is a way to read the news, network and keep up with friends and colleagues. But for event planners, Twitter is so much more. Their network on Twitter becomes a real resource when looking to find the perfect hotel, DJ, venue, cake master, etc. You name it, and someone on Twitter can probably help you find it.

Planning an event can sometimes take you anywhere, even if you are a small business owner like Stephanie Frazier Grimm, owner of Couture Parties in Newport, Rhode Island. Grimm plans everything from children’s birthday parties to weddings, and they aren’t always bound to America’s smallest state.

“I use Twitter to connect with friends in the industry. If I’m planning a destination wedding in California, I can reach out and find out who the best photographers are in the area.”

Likewise, Laura Parkinson also sees Twitter as a great help in both her current job planning internal