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NEW YORK INTERLUDE

By Ty Wenzel • Feb 4th, 2010 • Category: Featured, General, Videos

Was feeling blue, so I took a couple of buses to get away for a few days, first from East Hampton, NY to Montvale, NJ, to Manhattan back to East Hampton, NY in the course of three days. Decided to film it, star in it and and share it. Although it seems that I look [...]



MORE FREE ICONS THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH

By Ty Wenzel • Jan 28th, 2010 • Category: Design & Graphics, Freebies, Resources, Web Design

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Sustainable Urban Design for Green Living and Learning

By Ty Wenzel • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Architecture, Events, Green Me Baby!
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Eco sustainable homes and sustainable urban architectural design are at the forefront of the Batimat show in Paris. The aptly named Be-Green Houses prove it really is easy being Green, and it can be done in total comfort and style. This pair of contemporary house plans incorporates all the essentials into a colorful, bright design. [...]



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By Ty Wenzel • Nov 2nd, 2009 • Category: Design & Graphics, Freebies, Resources, Web Design
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Sick of being screwed over by the douches at AT&T with their “Unlimited” Data plan when using IM?

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: Cool Websites, Featured, Gadget Garage, Mama Ty's Personal Baggage

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I was not-so-pleasantly surprised that AT&T yet again raped me by charging me extra for using my MSN IM and Yahoo IM for business… which is supposed to be covered in the $99 I pay every month for UNLIMITED DATA… not so… the douchebags at AT&T decided to go for the de rigeur [...]



Make Phone Calls on Twitter With @Call

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Web-based phone service JAJAH has just released their Twitter calling feature JAJAH@Call in beta, giving participating members the ability to call each other, free of charge, by way of Twitter.
The calling service works when a member tweets “@call @twittername.” The tweet will cause both phones to ring, and the Twitterers will be connected [...]



Obama Calls Kanye a Jackass: There’s Video Too

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Just when you think this story is over … there’s now video of President Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass.” The clip first appeared earlier today on Politico, who then pulled it, writing that they “felt upon reflection that it was more respectful to a fellow news-gathering operation to take it down.”
CNN, however, [...]



Bing Is Now the Fastest Growing Search Engine

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new Bing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10.
Last time we looked, Bing was sitting at around 9.4% of the search market in July, but Nielsen’s new numbers confirm the search engine’s continued growth through the month of [...]



Real-Time Top 40: What Twitter Users Are Listening to Right Now

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Twitter’s trending topics play an important role in the Twitter ecosystem by highlighting the most popular subjects that people are tweeting about in real-time. We’ve seen plenty of different real-time search engines play with and tweak this concept, but we’ve yet to see trending tracks. Until now.
Vodafone has just launched Real-Time Top 40, to [...]



Is Google Wave Ready for Its Debut?

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Exactly two weeks from today, Google Wave will make its debut on the world stage. It hasn’t even been four months since Google Wave was announced, but it has already captured the hearts and minds of communication, tech, and social media enthusiasts.
While we have explored whether the world is ready for Google [...]



Skype’s Founders Sue eBay for $75 Million Per Day in Damages

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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eBay may have sold the majority of Skype earlier this month, but that may not matter if the two original founders of Skype get their way. They have just sued eBay and Skype’s new investors for damages that they estimate total “a rate of more than $75 million daily.”
The case pits eBay against [...]



Little Girl Throws Ball Back, MLB Throws Embeds Away

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Last night something with the potential to go insanely viral happened at a Philadelphia Phillies baseball game. Big time Phillies fan, Steve Monforto, caught his first foul ball, promptly handed it over to his 3-year-old daughter, Emily, who then immediately threw it back onto the field. After initial shock, the dad embraced his daughter [...]



Kanye West’s VMA Outburst Breaks Records at MTV.com

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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This news should come as no surprise: Kanye West’s outburst at the VMAs resulted in all sorts of digital records over at MTV.com. The company shared some stats with us this afternoon:
2.7 million unique visitors hit MTV.com on Sunday – it’s highest VMA performance ever
5.5 million unique visitors hit MTV.com on Monday – [...]



Murdoch’s Latest Money Grab: Charge for Mobile Access to WSJ

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Newspapers are finding themselves in tough economic circumstances, so it’s no surprise that News Corp is dead set on monetizing their digital content, with CEO Rupert Murdoch recently saying that his company is planning to “charge for all our news websites.”
In a somewhat surprising move, it turns out the monetization strategy is being applied [...]



HOW TO: Write a Novel Using the Web

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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It took five years for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to go from idea to finished manuscript, but the results have very clearly been nothing short of spectacular. Perhaps you also have an idea for a novel kicking around in your head. Maybe it came to you in the shower one [...]



Why the White House is Hiring a Social Media Archivist

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the US Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in 1978. This act changed the legal ownership of official records from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) from private to public and mandated that these records be filed with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Although [...]



PRIVACY: Facebook Is One of America’s Most Trusted Companies

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Facebook has had its share of privacy issues, ranging from the controversy surrounding the Beacon advertising system to the more recent changes the company made to its policies to comply with Canadian law.
Nonetheless, the company has seemingly been able to earn the trust of the American population on the whole, as TRUSTe [...]



Google to Buy Web Video Provider Brightcove? [RUMOR]

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Fresh off the news that Google is buying reCAPTCHA, another major acquisition rumor has emerged. According to a tweet from Mark Glaser, Executive Editor of PBS MediaShift, “Brightcove in talks with Google about buyout in $500m to $700m range.”
Brightcove, for those unfamiliar, is essentially the YouTube of b2b video, powering video streaming on [...]



Google Acquires reCAPTCHA

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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You know those boxes with funky looking letters that are becoming increasingly common on website registration forms, or on Facebook Pages when you want to post an update? They’re called captchas and they’re used primarily to deter spammers and bots.
One of the biggest providers of the technology is a company called reCAPTCHA, and [...]



Myna: Garage Band in Your Web Browser

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Aviary is already well-established as an online image editing suite, but today the company is expanding its creative reach and bringing multi-track audio editing to the cloud.
The service, called Myna, is sort of like Garage Band in your web browser. You can import audio directly into it, record a track into the application, or [...]



Will the Zune HD Fail Without an App Store?

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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On Tuesday, Microsoft launched its answer to Apple’s iPod touch with the Zune HD. And while the Zune Marketplace will be offering plenty of content in the way of music and movies, what it won’t be offering is an App Store to compete with the Apple iTunes model.
Market analysts appear to be lining up [...]



iTwinge: The Keyboard Sleeve That Turns Your iPhone Into a BlackBerry

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Newsflash: the iPhone doesn’t have a physical keyboard. Does this mean one has to crammed into (or onto) it at all costs? If you’re a former BlackBerry addict, perhaps it does.
Enter the oddly named iTwinge, an iPhone sleeve that does the trick in the simplest of fashions: it merely covers the software keys [...]



Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Marketing Job Guide

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career [...]



HOW TO: Share Files From Your Hard Drive to Twitter and Facebook

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Recently we profiled a number of great gadgets for social media lovers, and Pogoplug made the list for its ease of socially sharing local files on your hard drive.
Today the device takes sharing a step further, by adding quick and easy sharing of files from your local hard drive right to Twitter, Facebook, and [...]



Facebook Photo Tag Search: The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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…if you enjoy the little things in life, that is. Yesterday we wrote about Facebook prototypes, a new Facebook feature which lets you try out beta versions of new features. Click on “Applications” at the bottom left of your screen, then “Browse More Applications”, and then on “Prototypes”.
One of the new features that [...]



Opera Mini 5 Beta Brings Tabs, Speed Dial, Better Performance

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Opera Mini, the Java-based mobile browser from Opera (which means it can run on any phone, regardless of platform, that runs Java ME), has a new version out: Opera Mini 5 Beta.
It brings a number of improvements compared to the previous major version, Opera Mini 4.2; if your phone is not an iPhone [...]



The Onion Launches a News iPhone App … Without Any News

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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There is nothing like The Onion in print, on the web, or anywhere else. “America’s Finest News Source” has provided us with constant laughs from its satirical writing, witty headlines, and of course, hilarious video shorts.
Until now, The Onion was limited to print and that square rectangle you call a computer screen. [...]



Top 10 Kanye West Interruption Parodies

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock that doesn’t have Wi-Fi or a 3G signal, you’ve probably heard about Kanye West’s outburst at the Video Music Awards.
Being the bizarre and wonderfully creative place that it is, The Internets quickly came to the rescue with a slew of parodies, mashups and Photochops of even [...]



YouTube Races to Be #1 … on Facebook

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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First we had the race to 1 million followers on Twitter (let the history books show that Ashton won). But did you know that a similar battle is brewing over the most Facebook fans?
YouTube thinks they can take the title, and to make things more interesting they’re also allowing their Facebook fans to [...]



Facebook Envy? MySpace Open-Sources Recommendation Framework

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Facebook made waves last week when it released the code behind Tornado Web Server, the framework that powers some of the functionality behind FriendFeed, which Facebook acquired last month.
While the move was a nice gesture to the development community, it’s not as if Facebook did this without a purpose. Specifically, they [...]



iPhone Recession Case Is Just a Buck [PIC]

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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If you spent your entire discretionary income on a new iPhone 3GS, or any iPhone for that matter, and don’t have enough funds left over for a spiffy protective case, then Case-Mate has the perfect solution — the iPhone recession case.
The cardboard case is totally legit, getting rave reviews (okay there’re only 3), and [...]



APPLE TABLET: New Rumors Project February Launch Date

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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We wrote recently about why we think an Apple Tablet is coming and how it might impact the marketplace. Some recent new information suggests some of the companies who will play a role in manufacturing components for the device.
Citing a report from Taiwan Economic News, Ars Technica reports several Taiwanese manufacturers have won contracts [...]



iPhone Camera Usage Drops Sharply on Flickr … But There’s a Reason

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Techie News

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Last month we reported on the relative popularity of the iPhone on popular photo-sharing site Flickr: popular enough to vie for and reach the #1 spot.
That a camera phone could eclipse popular photographer mainstays like the Canon EOS Digital Rebel, Nikon’s D-Series and others spoke highly of how much people value taking images [...]



Tag Twitter Users in Your Facebook Status Updates With SocialToo

By Ty Wenzel • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Techie News

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Yesterday Facebook launched its @mentions feature. As we’ve previously noted, this has the potential to take on some of Twitter’s heart and soul head-to-head. But what about users who often use their Twitter and Facebook accounts in tandem?
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the new SocialToo Status addition to the SocialToo Facebook app [...]



HOW TO: Find a Sponsor for Your Group

By Ty Wenzel • Jul 10th, 2009 • Category: Featured, Techie News

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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.
Name: Groupable
Quick Pitch: Groupable is an online community of groups and sponsors looking [...]



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