With Twitter’s relatively new popularity come those who want to exploit it for financial or other type of gain.  A few weeks ago Twitter users were being sent links to malware.  Those who clicked the links were directed to a site where malware was downloaded.  The malware then sent out links from the newly infected [...]

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At the end of April, Twitter introduced a real-time search feature integrated into the web interface.  This also included a listing of trending topics.  Since then there’s been an increase in memes that seem to be aimed at manipulating the trending topics. Some examples of these are: #turnons, #turnoffs, #inappropriatemovies and #notagoodlook.  Twitterers participate in [...]

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I decided to take a trip to New York for the weekend as an early birthday celebration. I took the Bolt Bus from downtown DC. Like a baby I was awakened when the bus stopped moving only to see the remains of what looked like a horrific accident on the New Jersey Turnpike. There was [...]

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Out of retirement, my LifeDrive has come to allow me to be mobile. After turning my Blackberry in with my last employer about 6 weeks ago, I realized that I have a habit. Seriously, I still think I hear buzzing and want to check my Blackberry. It’s not the instance access that I get with [...]

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I feel like I’m just a few steps away from rubbing two sticks together to make fire – well maybe not that bad. MrFresh captured me a few weeks ago at PodCampDC doing something I did often – reading email, tweets, browsing online, etc. with my Blackberry. The problem is that it wasn’t my Blackberry; [...]

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