In RetroTech: NetLingo Blog
Tracking tech trends and how the internet is changing our lives.
February 25, 2011
Listen to Erin on Martha Stewart's Radio Show - Tuesday, March 1st
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Listen in as Erin Jansen, Founder of NetLingo.com, discusses " The NetLingo Top 10 Internet Terms of 2010 " and as she reveals ne...
February 21, 2011
How to Get Rich Off the Internet
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The bloggers who provided free content for the HuffingtonPost.com won't receive any of the $315 million AOL paid for the website. You ...
February 17, 2011
Online Advertising Lingo: social media
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social media Social media can take many different forms, including social networks , blogs , vlogs , social bookmarks , user reviews, video...
February 10, 2011
Online Advertising Lingo: 1% rule
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1% rule A rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online , then one will create content , ten will interact with...
February 5, 2011
Online Advertising Lingo: Lesson #1
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3-way linking An example of 3-way linking is when a person owns two Web sites, and uses one of the Web sites to offer link exchanges, in a...
January 27, 2011
She’s Virtually Virtual: The Perils of Building an Online Business
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With books like The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss (which was on the New York Times best seller list for 75 weeks), thousands of peo...
January 12, 2011
5 Easy Places to Recycle Your Old Gadgets and Computers
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Maybe you got next-generation gear over the holidays, or maybe it's time to clean out your unused gadgets for the new year. Whatever t...
January 7, 2011
Early Adopter Update: It's Time to Hurry Up and Wait for 4G
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It's the CES this week (the Consumer Electronics Show) and the industry is buzzing. Standards are being solidified. Convergence is takin...
January 2, 2011
Should parents let toddlers play with iPhones?
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Moms and dads are discovering that iPhones can entertain little kids more effectively than traditional toys, but does that mean it's a ...
December 11, 2010
Give hours of fun to your digital friends!
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The new NetLingo book is a handy guide of every text abbreviation and chat acronym you'll ever need to know! In time for the holidays,...
November 27, 2010
NetLingo Top 10 Internet Words of 2010
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NetLingo.com announces the Top 10 Internet Words of 2010! There has been a huge emphasis on numbers this year so we decided to feature mult...
November 25, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving from cyberspace
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Happy Thanksgiving America, are you really going to spend it in front of the boob tube or waste it in cyberspace? Here's a quote by aut...
November 22, 2010
First Engrish, then Euro-English, and now Singlish
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In world news, Singapore is urging its people to speak standard English instead of "Singlish," the city-state's unique patois...
November 19, 2010
If you use Verizon, check your bill!
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Verizon copped to overcharges and will offer customer refunds. FYI: Verizon announced last month that it would reimburse millions of custo...
November 17, 2010
Did you hear the one about...? And other dumb Facebook stories!
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I know many of you use Facebook on a regular basis, in fact the NetLingo blog posts get automatically streamed to the NetLingo Facebook Pag...
November 16, 2010
How to make time slow down, really!
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Looks like I'll be moving to another high-rise! In his theory of relativity, Albert Einstein put forth a very strange idea: Time moves ...
November 13, 2010
No message is worth dying for :-(
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Having spent the summer in a state that has not yet passed any texting laws, let alone hands-free cell phone laws, I came to fear for my ...
November 10, 2010
Toasted Skin Syndrome: When Laptops Singe
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The latest health scare in the tech world? Your laptop . “Toasted skin syndrome’’ generally disappeared around the time people stopped spe...
November 7, 2010
Have I taught you nothing about privacy?
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If you're a parent, maybe you've already heard about this recent study. I hope so and I hope you've done something about it! Fo...
November 4, 2010
Artificial intelligence behind the wheel?
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First spotted on the highway almost a year ago, Google is developing a self-driving car. The company’s fleet of self-driving Toyota Prius...
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