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The Power of Mobile

Convince & Convert

With the Internet in your pocket, at almost anytime in darn near any location (subways, wine caves and most airplanes be damned) you can summon information to settle a debate or sports bar argument in a moment’s notice. Only your mobile phone can do that. That’s the power of mobile, and we are just getting started.

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GroupTabs-Groupon Meets Foursquar

Freelance Social Media

GroupTabs is a startup that is being billed as a cross between Groupon and Foursquare. The customer shows up to the bar and checks in using the mobile web based app. The idea is for a business to offer a deal if enough people check in to the location. The next deal takes place Saturday. The deal tips when ten check-ins are reached.

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Top 200 Social Media Sites by Niche | Freelance Social Media

Freelance Social Media

We’d like to add a couple to the list: Macblips and HypeM Sports Entertainment Fighters Ballhype eFans FanNation Fanspot ScoreGuru SportsFlip Sportsvite SportsCast Social Bookmarking Blinkbits Blinklist Blogmarks Chipmark Connectedy del.icio.us Diigo Foxmarks Furl Lycos iQ Ma.gnolia Mobilicio.us

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Extreme Testing: What Breather.com is Doing with 430,000+ Daily Data Points

Convince & Convert

And the most important thing all these sensors are interacting with now is your mobile phone. Sure, there’ll still be room for “creative,” but slowly, choices in decoration (especially in commercial space) are going to be replaced by rigorous testing, the same stuff we see in Lean Startup land.

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The 10 CES Sessions that We’re Most Excited About

Pixlee

This one focuses on a few of our favorite things, namely how social media, viral and influencer campaigns dominate today’s mobile strategy. Social Impact of Sports. Conference Track: Sports Business Innovation. Tech East, LVCC, North Hall, N258. January 10th, 11:15 AM-12:15 PM. Tech West, Sands, Halls A-D, 45222.

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A World Of Unicorns Where Billions Of Dollars Are At Stake

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A "unicorn" is a startup with a market capitalization of $1 billion or more. Most recently in Canada, Ottawa's Shopify hit unicorn status (can you name another Canadian startup besides BlackBerry ? my mobile device from Florida failed. Are video games a real sport? It is driven out of the sports program.

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10 Quotes on the Apple iPad and the Business of News

Adam Sherk

The question, then, is whether newspaper publishers will do any better at monetizing mobile advertising than they have online. The fabulous Sports Illustrated tablet demo was built with Adobe Air and Flex, which don’t play on the iPhone OS. Hmmm) The New York Times app shown at the release looks great, with embedded video.

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