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Arfa Karim Randhawa 1995-2012

If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only in the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident, you act confident; therefore, never let shyness conquer your life. These are the words from Arfa Karim Randhawa as interviewed by Todd Bishop of GeekWire

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I want to believe in Bruce Lee and Kodak

note: I wrote this in August 2011 when I was back in Rochester, but I never finalized the article.  I figured with the news that they are definitely on the brink of reorganization, it was a good time to post. This viral video by Nokia filmed with a Bruce Lee impersonator and some clever special

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Happy New Year 2012 from Seattle

Happy 2012! Here are a few pics from the Space Needle’s Fireworks Display that I took from my apartment (yup, I live closeby).  All pictures were taken by my trusty Sony Alpha A700. Click for bigger versions.

Take five minutes and purge Klout.com

How to delete Klout.com access from your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn Accounts. Before the new year, it’s actually a perfect time to review access permissions that you granted to websites and applications on Facebook and Twitter, and while we’re there,  it’s a perfect time to dump Klout. What’s Klout? It’s a silly tool to measure

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The Alamo Drafthouse Don’t Talk PSA’s

The Alamo has some of the best videos which encourage folks to not talk/text during movies otherwise bad things (zombies, axe murders, Ann Richards, etc..) will serve violent justice on your ass.  Earlier this year they tossed out a customer, and they got a voicemail response which they turned into one of their PSA’s. I

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Buying new eyeglasses: Brick and mortar vs. Online Stores

I need glasses… I remember thinking.  When I was a kid my sister and I would annually visit our family Optometrist, Dr. Yeh, and he would patiently test our vision.  (little better this way… little better that way…)  My parents had a simple calculation: Better Eyeglasses = Better Reading = Better Grades.  Now I pretty much use glasses

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Zynga’s Empires & Allies and Player Retention via Leaderboards

“My female friend just described Starcraft 2 to her girlfriend like Farmville, but with attack function.” -nihilion_Zero on reddit I laughed pretty hard at that quote about Starcraft, but this is also a good description of Zynga’s Empires & Allies. They’ve taken Farmville mechanics and added in some basic attack options.  The game is a

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Dear MySpace… uh I mean My_____, I have found someone new

Today I received an email that smelled of desperation, of a request for forgiveness, of long lost love… from MySpace. I guess I had to write a response as sort of a Dear John letter Dear MySpace, I know we’ve had our good times in the past, but I’ve met someone new, someone who I

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Cheezburger on ABC News

Some people ask me where I work. It has taken a year or so to explain it to my dad. Well here’s the ABC News profile of Cheezburger Network as shown on Nightline last night. (thank you ABC) Here’s the embedded video from Hulu.com (thank you Hulu)

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Stolen Memes: Baby Carrots vs POWERTHIRST

This recent commercial about Baby Carrots as “the new junkfood” is great eye candy and presents the product in a unique light in a video that seems to going viral. So is this Advertising being creative and coming up with a new concept which could go big, or did CP+M simply take existing viral content,

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