http://webbuildingnews.net Your Source for Social News and Networking Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:26:37 PDT en http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=65751
You see, Woot noticed that the AP covered the story of their sale five days ago. But in doing so, they also noticed that the AP used a number of quotes from CEO Matt Rutledge's blog post about the sale. According to the AP's own ridiculous rules for using quotations, Woot figures that the AP owes them $17.50. ]]> Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:26:37 PDT WebNews Internet News 7 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=65751 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=49965
The Google Maps option will be available on all current Turn-by-Turn capable GM vehicles starting with the 2006 model year and also will integrate with OnStar Destination Download to send destinations directly to the vehicle's screen-based navigation system. ]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:24:16 PDT WebNews Internet News 2 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=49965 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=49961

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Ever since this whole blog thing started to take off, marketers have been trying to horn their way into the conversation. It started out as crude pay-per-post schemes, and then evolved into more subtle "sponsored conversations". Once Twitter and Facebook took off, some of those conversations also were for sale. It got so bad, the FTC had to get involved.

Now Six Apart is launching its version of sponsored conversations, which it calls TypePad Conversations. The trick to this type of marketing is to strike a balance between creating authentic online conversations and creating advertorials. The way Six Apart is trying to strike this balance is by getting bloggers to put up posts asking their readers general questions about a topic related to the advertiser's interests. So Sprint, which is the launch advertiser, is advertising an upcoming HTC 4G phone by getting bloggers to write posts asking questions such as: "Do your kids respond better and faster when you text or call them?", "If you could connect up to 5 devices at a time using just your mobile phone, how would that change how and when you access the internet?", and "Is technology making us better or worse at communicating with each other? How so?" I fear the answer to the last question is "worse." ]]> Wed, 12 May 2010 05:46:14 PDT WebNews Internet News 2 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=41383 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=41315

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The awkwardness of it all can be quite striking at times. I met Rachel online several years ago when we were both in our mid-20's. Like so many of the photos gracing online dating sites today, hers were elusive and left much to the imagination. In her pictures, she was dark-haired and had a pleasing complexion, but every photo except one was merely a head shot. They were blurry. Every photo showed her with red eyes, so her eye colour was completely ambiguous. I found out later she wore colour contact lenses anyway. But she looked and sounded outgoing, intelligent, maybe even fun.

We chatted online after exchanging emails and finally had a telephone call. I tried my best to keep the conversation brief and polite. I have always been afraid of exhausting all intelligent conversation before the proper date. We finally agreed to meet in a restaurant bar.

Here's where it gets awkward. She was clearly older than her pictures. She would have been pretty if it was not for her dreadful sense of style. I described her to friends as frumpy. No surprise, she only dated people she met online and usually prefaced the first date with arduous months of telephone and online conversations. She did not work well face to face.

I was no charmer myself. About three minutes into the date I decided it was not meant to be and then realized my first drink was empty as well. I'm sure she told her online friends later that I was a boozy low-life who kept trying to make her laugh while staring at the tele over the bar. In my best defense, that was only half true.

I tried to make a pleasant go at it. We talked over drinks, she told me about her job as a teacher and we made casual conversation. The strangeness of it was hanging in the air over our heads the entire time. I think we shared an unspoken mutual shame as online daters forcing our way through a normal first date. Then there was the burden of trying to act polite when there was clearly no interest between us. I kept glancing at my mobile phone and to the door, and worst of all I knew I would have to avoid my favourite bar for the next few weeks in case she got to liking the place. We eventually parted ways with a hurried handshake and the bold-faced lie: "I'll call you."

As I left that evening, I was feeling pathetic not for having dated someone I met online, but because it was an abject failure. On the bright side, I did try to treat the date as practice for the real thing. I still think of online dating as an excellent way to compliment regular dating. It's one more line in the water, so to speak. But when you are sitting there counting the minutes go by wondering why she looked so much better in her 1992 picture, you can see how it can all go wrong.

Let me know if you have had any bad experiences in the comments section of my original post see #link#! ]]> Fri, 07 May 2010 11:15:36 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40087 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40056 Fri, 07 May 2010 09:25:25 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40056 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40048 Fri, 07 May 2010 08:40:03 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40048 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40047
What is left is a concentrated unnatural substance which the human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the quantities that is now ingested in today's accepted lifestyle. Sugar is addictive. The average American now consumes approximately 115 lbs. of sugar per year. This is per man, woman and child. ]]> Fri, 07 May 2010 08:32:14 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40047 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40009 Fri, 07 May 2010 04:55:07 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=40009 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39997 Fri, 07 May 2010 03:52:14 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39997 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39983 Fri, 07 May 2010 02:23:57 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39983 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39960 Fri, 07 May 2010 00:51:12 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39960 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39946 Fri, 07 May 2010 00:10:42 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39946 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39945 Fri, 07 May 2010 00:08:30 PDT import Internet News 1 http://webbuildingnews.net/story.php?id=39945