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Tracking tech trends and how the internet is changing our lives.
March 26, 2011
A Sex Scandal for the Internet Age
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Michelle Cottle of The DailyBeast.com writes, "For generations, congressmen and senators have cheated on their wives in Washington, ...
March 19, 2011
The Top 25 Online Ads Everybody Should Know
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Online advertising has morphed into so many features and sizes, should online advertisers still consider measuring it in traditional marke...
March 16, 2011
I Am Number Four
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Linguists have often wondered, "Is our understanding of numbers innate or cultural?" New research provides stronger evidence than...
March 8, 2011
Online Ad Lingo: from 1:1 to CRM
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1-to-1 a.k.a. 1:1, one-to-one A marketing concept created by authors Don Pepper and Martha Rogers and turned into a marketing consultancy...
March 5, 2011
Are Facebook and Twitter tools of revolution?
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Social networking played a key role in the popular uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, and Iran over the past year. “Did Twitter make them...
March 2, 2011
Humans still have the edge over AI
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AI as in artificial intelligence . Jeopardy fans were mesmerized when Watson, the IBM computer that was programmed to play the trivia gam...
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...
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