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Best Burger Ever!
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Posted in Food on 11 September 2007
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To chow down on the “Best Burger Ever” you will need to get on down to Illinois near the border across from St. Louis to a town called Sauget but from what I read and hear it is well worth the trip. The town of Sauget has a minor league baseball team in the Frontier […]

Apple to create iWire?
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Posted in Apple, iPhone, Mobile on 10 September 2007
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Businessweek is reporting that Apple is considering bidding on 700 Mhz spectrum going up for auction in January of 2008.  Maybe they are waking up and smelling the bad aroma of their bed mate AT&T after all? Dubbed “beachfront property” by the Federal Communications Commission, signals at the 700Mhz spectrum could provide far faster Internet […]

Web Start-up Fetchback Creates New Cyberstalker-ware
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Posted in Advertising, Internet, Marketing, Media on 7 September 2007
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The new start-up Fetchback is billing their new “ware” retargeting. “We’re enabling companies to reconnect with a lost customer,” says Chad Little, CEO of Fetchback.  I call it cyberstalking. Fetchback works like this: Say you stumble across the website of Discover Card (which happens to be a Fetchback client). After realizing your mistake after a […]

Business 2.0 Magazine Is Officially Dead
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Posted in Advertising, Internet, Marketing, Media on 5 September 2007
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Business 2.0 will cease publication with its October issue this year.  Launched by Future Media back in 1998 and subsequently sold to Time back in 2000, B2 has had a very interesting run for a magazine. Time has turned down offers from Mansueto Ventures (owners of Fast Company) and others with the buzz on the […]

Politickin in South Carolina Over Labor Day Weekend
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Posted in Politics on 4 September 2007
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Over the long Labor Day weekend visiting family in South Carolina, I was enjoying jetskiing on Lake Murray, eating picnic food, and drinking beer. Not all at once although tempting. On Monday morning, there was to be a parade in a little town called Chapin which proved to be a real eye opener about politics […]

Wired Magazine’s Quiet Little Custom Cover Effort & Hyperlocality Opp Missed
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Posted in Advertising, Marketing, Media on 30 August 2007
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Around April of this year, subscribers of Wired were provided with a tip-on cover solicitation with an interesting twist. The offer was for the opportunity for anyone (fast enough) to have their own customized cover of Wired with your own photo on it! If you were one of the 5,000 people that responded first, your […]

NBCU and Newscorp Launch New Video Portal Hulu
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Posted in Film, Internet, Marketing, Media, Mobile, TV, Video on 29 August 2007
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Set to go live this October (you can only sign up for the beta right now), the effort is purported to be the two MSM giant’s YouTube killer. Head on over to Hulu now to sign up.

Google To Announce New Mobile OS
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Posted in Mobile on 29 August 2007
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Sources are claiming that a new Google OS for mobile will be announced very soon.  Here at TwoADay we have christened this new thing GoogMobOS rather than what others are calling it (Gphone OS).   Perhaps just GoogOS? Place your bets now on what the blogosphere be calling it.

Design Solution So Simple It’s Brilliant
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Posted in Design on 28 August 2007
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Now why didn’t I think of this?! The photo above is from the Vogue Living Australia’s Autumn/Winter 2007 issue. The firm that made it can be found here. Not much else to see there but contact information though and the firm is Down Under. Functional and well designed from what I see. The trick would […]

Review of BargainCell.com
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Posted in Computing, Gadgets, Internet, Mobile on 27 August 2007
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One of my cell phones decided that its battery had had enough of recharging itself and thus it became clear that I needed to get a new phone or get a replacement battery. After suffering through a meatspace in-person visit at the local Verizon store where the local employees idea of salesmanship was making me […]