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What’s On Your Computer Chris Pirillo?

It’s the season premiere of What’s On Your Computer aka. Show Me Your Desktop. I’ll continue with the akas’. Chris Pirillo aka L0ckergn0me will kick this season off. You can’t write about Chris Pirillo without linking to a lot different sites. Chris and his wife Ponzi are the minds behind the increasingly popular technology conference Gnomedex. Chris [...]

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Avast Land Lubber - It’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day Arrr!

It’s the International Talk Like a Pirate Day today. So if you are into pirate talk, this is the day for ye matey. Of course all the major social media sites are jumping on the bandwagon including Facebook in pirate talk, select English (Pirate) and you can see how many of ye Mateys are on board [...]

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Twitter Alternatives - Plurk Or Pownce

It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users. But what are the alternatives? There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, [...]

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