Category Archives: technology

10 Chrome Extensions for the Savvy Digital Marketer

Everyone here at [meta]marketer is huge on online productivity. Like the rest of the team, I use a good many web-based tools to help facilitate getting a lot of stuff done. As I was setting up a scheduled tweet, it occurred to me that some of our friends might like to see just what tools we [...]

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Evernote for Chrome article clipping: SLICK.

I’m a longtime Evernote user. I love me some Evernote. I use all the extensions, add-ins, APIs, and whatever I can to maximize my use of that tool, and my note count proves it: 17,811 as of this posting. So when I tell you that this latest feature in the Chrome browser extension for Evernote [...]

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What Baffles Me About Google+

Here’s what I don’t get about Google+: why isn’t there a clear upgrade path from Google Buzz? A friend of mine shared something in her Buzz feed that I wanted to reshare. When I clicked the Reshare button, I was presented with a list of my Google Contacts groups to choose from. Standard, right? That’s [...]

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No Shoes, No Shirt, No Email Address History, No Service?

An article in today’s InternetRetailer.com daily news called “Why retailers can probably trust consumers with lots of Facebook friends” caught my eye: Accertify announced today a deal to incorporate into its fraud-screening process data from Rapleaf, a company that has indexed over 600 million e-mail addresses, and tracks such information as how many social network [...]

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"Pre"-Conceived Notions

I know I haven’t said much of anything here in a while, and I do mean to be better about that, but for the moment, just a quick thought: I keep reading all this speculation about whether there will be adoption for the Palm Pre as a third-party application development platform. Because to read it, [...]

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