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Laying Off Microsoft

Jason Yormark

There was no question really when Microsoft offered. I put in four amazing years with Microsoft Advertising and made life long friends in the process. I never imagined Microsoft would lay anyone off, but the economy had other plans. Hell, Microsoft throws away millions of dollars on everything you could imagine.

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The Microsoft Surface's Beauty is Only "Surface Deep"

Stay N' Alive

As a long-time Microsoft fan (my first computers were all PCs), and with all my excitement about Windows 8, I was very excited about the Microsoft Surface. With all the hype Microsoft was giving it - run all your Windows apps across every Microsoft device, in a beautiful, comfortable environment - I was anxious to try it out!

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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. Let’s envision this scenario: a user has a support issue about an Apple product. Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. I’m going to stop there, though. No acknowledgment.

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5 Great iPad Social Networking Apps

Jason Yormark

Synchs with Google Reader which is a major plus and easy to share articles to your networks. It’s ironic that some of the best stuff that is coming out of Microsoft these days is their iOS products. Pulse (free) – I really love the UI for this newsreader. Fantastic UI, and crazy easy to use.

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Is Google becoming evil?

The Way of the Web

You might somewhat expect it of Microsoft, or ignore it if you’re a member of the Cult of Apple, but when Google acts in ways which particularly hurt small businesses, publishers and potentially vulnerable individuals, it’s particularly jarring. That’s entirely lost now.

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Google Apps – no more free sign-ups, no more Freemium

The Way of the Web

But Google seems to be making a lot of decisions which detract from their supposed stance to ‘Do No Evil’ and ‘Organise the world’s information’ Moves like putting all their effort into Google+ at the expense of other services such as Google Reader, dropping Feedburner advertising and setting it up for likely closure, (..)

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28 Resources from My Internet Marketing Toolbox

Viper Chill

Office for Mac When I ordered my Macbook Pro about 5 months ago (my first Mac) I didn’t think I would like their Microsoft Word alternative, Pages. iDisk is a service from Me.com (owned by Apple) which makes it very easy for me to backup my important files online. You prefer google reader over netvibes?