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A colleague sent me a link to this video – it’s really well done.  Knowing and understanding social media has been one of my primary role for companis I have worked for such as, 247realmedia.com, find.com, and  MediaTrust and some of the statistics in this piece shocked me. So I ask you, is social media a fad or a fundamental shift in the way we communicate with our customers?

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Can we watch TV on our computer? This is a question that has been around for quite a while, and a technology everyone has been waiting to happened. So far, the technology hasn’t been fully developed yet, but the good news is that it does exist. Let’s stop for a moment and think about the following: why should we have a digital TV when our 12 inch LCD monitor or computer laptop could do just the same function? Well, for those who share the same though, here are five ways to turn your computer or laptop into a television set.

1. There are a lot of free services out there that allow you to watch TV on your computer. One of which I have tried is a software based system call TVU (adware/spyware free). TVU is one of the most popular ones out there. The technology was developed by a Chinese company call TVU Networks.

REVIEW: It has tons of channels from all over the world including USA. By the time I wrote this article, there was no membership fee require to join in, and it’s a free service. The signal comes from air signal encoded into the TVU technology, and it’s broadcast throughout the internet. The TVU player allows full screen viewing and looks great, too!
Cons: Some channels signals come from different USA states. If, for example, you are in New York City and want to watch NBC, you could wind up watching California’s NBC channel which is three hours behind New York time. In other words, you would have to wait till 3am to watch the David Letterman Show.

Links: http://www.tvunetworks.com

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Here is how it works (video).

For Europe you can use: http://wwitv.com/
Other USA sources: FreeTV.com, sopcastcom, and joost.com (web based–not live), Livestation.com, lifetv.com, abc.com (no software, free none-live episodes).

2. Another option is a component call TV Tuner Card. This card works based on computer hardware.

Tech info: A TV tuner card is a computer component(hardware) that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk. In other words, you can install the TV tuner card into(inside) your computer motherboard. This will open an external port to connect an antenna or cable into your computer.
Review: It works pretty well and some come with remote control. The cool thing is that currently there are four kinds of tuner cards in the market: analog, digital, hybrid, and combo TV tuners. If you want to know more about it, Google it. I’m sorry, don’t expect me to get all technical here. I’m a consumer, not Wikipedia.
Cons: You need to open the computer to install it. If you are not that computer savvy, then you need a computer expert to install it for you, which means more money out of your pocket.
Link from CNet: http://reviews.cnet.com/1990-9332_7-6381535-1.html

3. The other way around to avoid paying a computer guy is to set the TV tuner externally instead of internally (as mentioned in option two). This one is called, you guessed it, USB TV tuner. They salle for about $60 dollars and up, so they cost more than the internal one. But with this gizmo, all you need to do is simply plug it into your computer USB port and you are ready to go.
Review: It works pretty well, and some of them even come with remote control.
Cons: It will cost you a little more money.
Link:http://www.bizrate.com/videoeditingcapturecards –or you can search on google, “USB TV Tuner.

4. Turn your computer monitor into a TV screen with an special multi-function adapter. This converter has a video output which allows you to connect your cable TV directly into your computer monitor.
Review: For those who are planing about buying a new flat TV, this gizmo saves you tons of money. The Multi-Function Converter is an ideal solution for any crowded dorm room, small apartment, or home office! It turns a PC monitor into a dual-purpose screen for both computer and TV video, eliminating the need to have multiple monitors in one room.
Cons: You need to buy the adapter with prices ranging for about $50 dollars.
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5. COMPUTER MONITOR (LCD) AS TV.
Monitors have higher resolution than Televisions, and believe it or not, you can save almost $200 when you buy a computer monitor instead of a Digital TV. And yes it is even possible to use an old monitor or any LCD computer monitor as a TV. There are two ways to do this:

A) Get an external TV Tuner box. These boxes comes in two types digital and analog.
Review: A digital tuner receives DTV and HDTVe signals when attached to a compatible antenna, cable, or satellite connection. An analog tuner receives the same UHF and VHS stations as a regular TV. Further, more analog boxes can interface with standard cable or satellite boxes as well any VCR, DVD player, or video game console.
Cons: They work great, but you need to buy the TV tuner box. Prices ranges around $70 to $200 dollars.
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B) Get the news monitors equipped with TV tuner. If you don’t have a LCD (flat) screen monitor and you are considering getting a new one, I recommend getting the newest computer monitor which comes with HDTV tuner built in. Yep, you heard this one right. There are monitors already equipped with TV tuner adapters.
Review: Very easy to use, only connect your Dish/Cable signal to the monitor and you are ready to go.
Cons: You need to buy the monitor where prices could range around $160 dollars for a 19 inch LDC monitor.
Link: I found a list of them on google

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Is General Motors being hunted by the revenge of the Electric car? (movie: who killed the electric card?). In 1996, electric cars began to appear on roads all over California. They were quite and fast, produced no exhaust, and ran without gasoline. Ten years latter, these futuristic cars were almost entirely gone. What happened? Why should we be haunted by the ghost of the eclectic car? And, who killed the eclectic car?

Who Killed the Electric Car? Was a 2006 documentary film that explored the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, specifically the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s. The film explores the roles of automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, the US government, the Californian government, batteries, hydrogen vehicles, and consumers in limiting the development and adoption of this technology.

Who knew then that the revenge of the electric car will come back hunting  General Motors– just three years after this documentary disclosed the true of this atrocious and selfish act which deprived all of us from clean energy cars.

The documentary (Who Killed the electric car?[ watch free movie]) was released on DVD to the home video market on November 14, 2006 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

The movie deals with the history of the electric car, its development and commercialization, mostly focusing on the General Motors EV1, which was made available for lease in Southern California, after the California Air Resources Board passed the ZEV mandate in 1990, as well as the implications of the events depicted for air pollution, environmentalism, Middle East politics, and global warming.

The film details the California Air Resources Board’s reversal of the mandate after suits from automobile manufacturers, the oil industry, and the George W. Bush administration. It points out that Bush’s chief influences, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and Andrew Card, are all former executives and board members of oil and auto companies. They were eliminated from the GM Line in 1999.

A large part of the film accounts for GM’s efforts to demonstrate to California that there was no demand for their product, and then to take back every EV1 and dispose of them.

A few were disabled and given to museums and universities, but almost all were found to have been crushed; GM never responded to the EV drivers’ offer to pay the residual lease value ($1.8 million was offered for the remaining 78 cars in Burbank before they were crushed). Several activists are shown being arrested in the protest that attempted to block the GM car carriers taking the remaining EV1s off to be crushed.

The film explores some of the reasons that the auto and oil industries worked to kill off the electric car. Wally Rippel is shown explaining that the oil companies were afraid of losing out on trillions in potential profit from their transportation fuel monopoly over the coming decades, while the auto companies were afraid of losses over the next six months of EV production. Others explained the killing differently. GM spokesman Dave Barthmuss argued it was lack of consumer interest due to the maximum range of 80–100 miles per charge, and the relatively high price.

The film also showed the failed attempts by electric car enthusiasts trying to combat the cancellation of EV1 and the surviving vehicles. Towards the end of the film, a deactivated EV1 car #99 was found in the garage of Petersen Automotive Museum, with its former owner invited for a visit.

The film also explores the future of automobile technologies including a deeply critical look at hydrogen vehicles and an upbeat discussion of plug-in hybrid electric vehicle technologies, with examples such as Tesla Roadster. The end of the film mentioned the upcoming sequel titled Revenge of the Electric Car.

Celebrities protested about the destruction of the electric car.

The film features interviews with celebrities who drove the electric car, such as Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Alexandra Paul, Peter Horton, Ed Begley, Jr., a bi-partisan selection of prominent political figures including Ralph Nader, Frank Gaffney, Alan Lloyd, Jim Boyd, Alan Lowenthal, S. David Freeman, and ex-CIA head James Woolsey, as well as news footage from the development, launch and marketing of EVs.

The film also features interviews with some of the engineers and technicians who led the development of modern electric vehicles and related technologies, such as Wally Rippel, Chelsea Sexton, Alec Brooks, Alan Cocconi and Stan and Iris M. Ovshinsky and other experts, such as Joseph J. Romm (author of Hell and High Water and The Hype about Hydrogen). Romm gives a presentation intended to show that the government’s “hydrogen car initiative” is a bad policy choice and a distraction that is delaying the exploitation of more promising technologies, like electric and hybrid cars that could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase America’s energy security. Also featured in the film are spokesmen for the automakers, such as GM’s Dave Barthmuss, a vocal opponent of the film and the EV1, and Bill Reinert from Toyota.

Today, General Motors Corp. bankruptcy filing seemed inevitable after a rebellion by its bondholders forced it to withdraw on Wednesday a plan to swap bond debt for company stock.

“Its pay back baby,” said the eclectic car

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Click here to see a gallery of photos of protest against General motors for crashing and killing the eclectic cars, which were taken from the people who drove and loved them.

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Using a few Google Analytics advance filters, it’s very easy to create a handy Twitter-specific profile which groups together twitter sources such as web clients and short URL services.

If you’ve read my earlier post 2 easy ways to track social networks in Google Analytics, you should be quite familiar with using advance filters in Google Analytics. A large percentage of Twitters traffic is coming from phone or desktop based clients, in which case they’ll appear as direct traffic so be sure to place extra attention to filter three.

1. Create a new Google Analytics profile and name it ‘Twitter Traffic’:

I also find it very useful to add a date next to the new profile so I’ll know when it went live and what sort of reporting data I should expect. Remember to always keep your original profile intact.
2. Click on ‘edit’ next to the new profile and add the following filters under ‘add filters’ option

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Video online has been one of the most popular and emerging social media phenomenon of the last few years. With a notable increase of sites offering all sort of video embedded in them, one prominent problem is also emerging–commercials.

Why is this a problem? Many marketers discovered how effective video was for the promotion of any product or service on the internet. It has been well documented that a user who visits a site is more inclined to view a video online than read the content of the site, in that, it takes him or her less time and afford. Video has been a great tool for publishers and marketers because the user finds video online easy to use- just click and watch. But there are new videos emerging which contain at least one commercial in them. In other words, the user is not longer able just to click and play some of these videos any more; now the user has to sit and wait till the commercial/advertisement runs first–and most of the ones I have seen dont have an option to pause or mute the video commercial.

The feature of video on the internet:

I project that in the near feature, people wont find video online as appealing as it is right now. This will cost a decline on usage. Video will become nothing alse but another SPAM online vehicle–just as to what happened to emial advertising back in 2000. It’s already happening. For example, people who go to yahoo news, would rather read the news than click a video and have to watch its commercials of 15 seconds for a 40 second video. I do this myself. Lets think about this for a moment. If a user were to watch 4 videos on any given site, and each video contains a 20 or 30 seconds commercial, we are talking about a stimated time of 2 minutes of commercial per site. Now, if this same user is like me–very active in internet–he or she could be watching a minimum of 20 videos a day. This could sums up to a stimated time of 10 minutes a day dedicated only to watch commercials online. And this estimate does not include long video watch, such as the ones you find on abc.com (free episodes which run for 28 min with commercial interruptions of about 7 brakes of 30 seconds each).

Lets project into the feature of video online–parting form the present:

According to data provided by Nielsen Online, viewers of Internet videos in the United States now watch an average of three hours of the material each month. Online video viewing hasn’t ceased expanding, with the average time spent viewing the videos in U.S. being 169 minutes in February, then rising to 191 minutes in March, an increase of 13 percent.

The total number of video streams being viewed grew by 9 percent to 9.7 billion, from 8.9 billion, and the total number of videos per user rose 7 percent to 74, from 70.

The sharper rise in the minutes spent viewing video than the number of videos being viewed tells Nielsen that more users are switching to longer videos, with the average growing from 2.4 minutes in February to 2.7 minutes in March.

There’s almost no need to say it - but YouTube remained the number 1 video site with 5.5 billion videos and over 89 million people using the site in the United States. Hulu came in second with 384 million videos and 9 million users.

The last example is good. Lets say Youtube decides to follow this trend and includes 15 seconds commercials before displaying any given video. With 89 million people using the site, you do the math. Thre is no doubt, by checking these statistics,  the incredible amount of profit these commercials can generate for companies. Resaon why this commercial-on video trend is inevitable to happen. But, lets not forget about the end user, us. Do we really want to sit around watching video after video and saturate ourselves with endless hours of commercials?

I know what you are thinking, “don’t we already doing this with television?” The point of this article is to project into the feature of video online. We very well know how Television is evolving, we have TiVO, pay-per view, and commercial free subscriptions now. Then why we would want to go back to the stone age of television–online?

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We all know about Obama’s government Grant program to help boost the country’s economic crisis. Grants given away to people and business in need. The question is “what is a grant, how it works, and how to get it?”

Government Grants are available to individuals and businesses, and can be used for almost anything. Applying for a grant is free and only takes a few minutes, yet only 15% of grants are ever even applied for becuase people doesn’t know who to contact or who to apply.

What are Government Grants?
Every year the US government puts your tax money to work and gives funds away in the form of grants. Billions of dollars are available for you to buy a house, start a business, pay for college or school supplies, pay off medical bills, buy clothes, fill your gas tank, or finally get out of debt. There are even grants that exist specifically for students, women and small business owners.

Do Grants have to be paid back? No

How to get a grant? There are serveral programs you can apply under. As said previously, for your house, business or any other financial need. You need to pick the right program and get fill in the right application. One place where you can find an extensive list of available federal, state and local government grants is Government Grants info site.

Reviews:
The top rated programs for finding government grants. This review is based on: number of results, quality of the grants, how much money is available, how vast information is provided–such as how qualify for Obama Homeowner Relief, free consultation (over the phone or chat) the frequency of which results are updated, amount of time it takes to fill out an application, and the ease of using the site.

Website	Price	Rating	in Depth Review
Government Grants	FREE		Review
Government Funded Grants	FREE		Review
Grant Funding Express	FREE		Review

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This guy is one of the most famous pop singers in the entire world (not kidding), except U.S.
He is a total sensation all over Europe, due to this unique melodies and rhythms. Not to mention he is smoking hot! he conquered the markets by singing in his native language (Turkish). An unusual phenomenon:

This is the song who made him famous around the globe:

This is why girls are crazy for this guy. He has the most amazing eyes
This video is from his english album:

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“just eat what I eat and I can guarantee you lose weight too.” One day a friend of mine did follow the joke and asked me, what did you eat today? So I told her. Then the next day she called me and while having a conversation about the kids, she asked me again what I ate that day. Therefore, the next day till it was sort of a routine for me to let her know what I was eating, she was actually imitating me.My “3 step formula formula” I wanted to try two products I had heard about and see if they could really work. After a little bit of research online, I found that they were safe to use together and that they were actually two of the most popular products some celebrities use to lose weight and keep it off. I didn’t want to spend a fortune on these products, so I did a little more searching on the internet to see if I could find them for cheap. I’m glad I did because I ended up finding free trials for both: the Acai Berry Weight Loss Formula and Colon Cleanse. Here is how I used the two products together to lose weight. Step 1: Acai Berry Weight Loss Formula Free Trial Step 2: Colon Cleanse Free Trial

Step 1: Acai Berry Free Trial

The Acai Berry Weight Loss Formula is the first and the most important part of my routine. I first saw Dr. Oz talk about the power of Acai Berry on Rachel Ray. CNN has also been talking about the berry a lot recently., , .

Aai Berry Weight Loss Formula and Colon Cleanse helps me to:

• Regulate my metabolism
• Keep me from feeling hungry all day
• Gives me tons of energy to use with my little boys and husband.
• Losing weight by replacing coffe and soda, which also keeps my teeth whiter

I was able to get a 30-day trial of the Acai berry formula online but the best part is that I only have to take it once a day, and then I am done!

Step 2: Colon Cleanse

Colon Cleanse is the second part of my routine. The Acai Berry Weight Loss Formula gives me extra energy, and regulates my metabolism while the Colon Cleanse:

• Gets rid of bad toxins that have built up over the years
• Removes inches of sludge from the walls of my colon
• Got rid of a few inches off my waist
• Lowered my blood pressure and cholesterol

Just like the Acai Berry Weight Loss Formula, I was able to get a free bottle of Colon Cleanse. I take the Colon Cleanse pill twice a day, once in the morning and once at night when I take the Acai. The combination is perfect, it helped me to lose weight and get rid of all the gross sludge from my system.

Step 3: Follow me diet

The Follow Me Diet is a basic method of saving time while planning to change the way you eat forever. Yes, you heard right, the best diet is the one you make it your way of living. I used to eat all sort of fast foods, but after I got diagnosed with gastritis, I changed my diet for 2 years. Today, I do no longer suffer from that, my stomach is good, but my system adjusted to the way I was eating. So, after I was better, I kept eating healthy ever since (14 ayers). I do not longer crabbed junk food anymore and some other fatty foods, I do no longer like it. But don’t get me wrong, from time to time I eat a fry hamburger and French fries (which will be included in the Follow Me Diet).

No need for Weight Watchers, just follow what I eat every day and you will lose weight—and change the way you eat for the rest of your life in a very simple and easy eay. And while at it, you will can save TIME and money, too.

Side note: One thing about me is that I eat good, cheap and/or cook fast meals. I don’t have time to cook elaborated meals . When eating out, which is quite often, I’ve found places (foods) that are inexpensive and quick to serve or buy. Trust me, this is going to be fun!

WEEK ONE (day 1).

WEEK ONE (day 2).

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Nicolas Cage sideburns are his signature look. Why in heavens sakes he decided to remove them? This is a question we have been trying to get an answer ever since his second movie National Treasure the sequel. The lack of sideburns makes him look terrible. The smart guy look; it is now a silly look. Why the change? One thing we noticed is that ever since he got married to an Asian girl, he has change into an skinny no sideburns guy. Skinny makes him look older, since the skin wrinkles more–specially around the mouth– I mean he is almost the same age of Robert Downey Jr. Robert, and Robert didn’t look as old in Iron man as Nick in the national trasure sequel did. And with no sideburns, he looks bolder and like something is off. This whole odd hair style kills his good looks tremendously. And his new movie knowing, same deal.

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I know many years ago using coupons was one of those things our grand mothers used to do as a sort of habit we never quite understood. But the matter of fact is the price of food has gone up about 8% in the past year, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. It wont be a bad idea putting into practice what our grand mom did back in the day. By developing a habit of saving money with coupons, we could actually save up to $150 a month on our grocery spendings. After all, our grandparents went through some recessions; therefore, they knew better than us how to economized.

Before I go on, I also want to mention the fact that many people spend quite a lot on things they do not really need. If you think this could be one of your problems (its mine too), I recommend reading the article about Emotional Spending.

Below is a compiled list of websites that offer free coupons. Some sites also give up credit or saving points by shopping online and off line. There’s no paid subscription to use these online coupons. The electronic coupons come from our well-known brands. Hey, this is the year 2009, back then, grandmas didn’t have computers as we do now.

LINKS to grocery coupon, printable coupons, and free coupons:

Electronic coupons: www.coupons.com
How it works: It works the same way as a paper coupon the only difference is that instead of cutting the peace of paper you click (select) the coupons you are interested in and then click print. You can select as many as you want and leave behind the coupons you don’t need, so you only print what the coupon or coupons you’re going to use.

Online Bargains Mall (electronics, food and more): www.shopzilla.com
How it works: This is a Bargain Prices Mall. Instead of going out shopping mall by mall or store by store to find what you are looking for and at the price you want (method that uses a lot of time and money–on gas or transportation), you can do the same thing from the comfort of your house or office.
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