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Social Media Shopping Deals Space Goes Self-Serve With Groupon?

by Ron Callari

On the heels of posting "Social Media Deals Space Goes Ape with JungleCents" and the already crowded space of online shopping deal sites, Groupon is said to be launching its latest feature called Groupon Stores - an option that will allow businesses to created Facebook-like self-serve pages where fans and friends can follow and access discounted deals from a specific brand.

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Social Media's Shopping Deals Space Goes Ape With JungleCents

by Ron Callari

In an already crowded space that includes major players like Groupon, Woot, Gilt Groupe and RetailMeNot, JungleCents enters the field with an inverted affiliate scheme and seed money from billionaire Mark Cuban.

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Just Lie Back And Leave Your Body To The Zerona® LipoLaser

by Boomer Babe

Exercise and a healthy diet are regimes everyone should follow, but face it, they don't always shape your body the way you'd like it. That's why we have cosmetic surgery! Here is a cosmetic procedure that can sculpt and tone your figure without even one little incision - it's totally non-invasive!

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Apple Gets Presidential: Obama Signs The First iPad Into History

by Ron Callari

While iPads still don't support Adobe Flash - another Adobe product- the "Ideas App" appears to have received a presidential promotional push on October 21, when President signed the first iPad ever. Sylvester Cann IV came up with the idea to use the Idea App in such a fashion, and scored some major geeky street cred as a result.

Reproductive Hormones Target Cancerous Tumors Like Magnets In Mice

by T Goodman

This discovery raises hopes that a targeted follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) injection can not only identify human tumors, but can deliver cancer killing drugs to the identified tumors.

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Starbuck's Social Media Menu Adds Exclusive Content & Happy Hours?

Starbucks' Digital Network & Alcohol Service!

by Ron Callari

Powered by the free Starbucks WiFi and with the intent of building a round-the-clock patronage, Starbucks announced the launch of two new services this week. Starbucks Digital Network will offer exclusive content to all of its in-store customers and a barista bar is being tested in Seattle where regional wines and beers will be added to its beverage offerings.

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Social Media's Microbloggers Vote For Lady Gaga Or The Pope To Appear On Conan?

by Ron Callari

In advance of the much anticipated return to the airwaves debuting on TBS, November 8, Conan O'Brien is using social media as a thrifty advertising vehicle to promote his new show (see related post, "Social Media's Geolocation Promotes Conan's Return To Late Night"). With blimps flying the friendly skies, Conan is coupling his current Foursquare promo with a Twitter voting contest urging the Twitterati to vote for #ConansFirstGuest that could pit Lady Gaga against the Pope (talk about both ends of the moral spectrum)!

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First Study Linking Hormone Therapy & Mortality From Breast Cancer

by T Goodman

Another study from the Women's Health Initiative 11 year follow-up has revealed, for the first time, that women who receive hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are twice as likely to die from breast cancer than those who do not receive the therapy. This information is contrary to the prevailing notion that estrogen plus progesterone therapy has little impact on severity or mortality of breast cancer.

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Trying Botox For Your Migraine Headaches? All You Have To Lose Are Your Wrinkles

by T Goodman

Are your wrinkles causing you migraine headaches? Botox is now approved to treat both of them!

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Social Media Search & Data Mining Primed To Out-Google Google

by Ron Callari

By Google's algorithms being regularly and strategically updated, they've been able to maintain a leadership role in online search for over a decade. However, looking forward to the next ten years, there are road signs ahead that indicate that "keyword search" may become as hackneyed a phrase as the "information superhighway."

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Kindles, Sony & Nook e-Readers Allowing Libraries To Thrive In Information Age?

by Ron Callari

In an ironic twist, as books are slowly become a legacy artifact of the past, and brick and mortar libraries were predicted to soon follow suit, there is a test program in a few New England towns that is stocking their library shelves with e-Readers. If you can't afford your own device - this might be a viable alternative.

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Social Media Spoof Equates Facebook To The Invention Of The Wheel

by Ron Callari

They say that impersonation is the highest form of flattery. And while Mark Zuckerberg may be having a hard time dealing with the "sins of his past" exposed in the widely-popular film "The Social Network" - he should take solace in the fact that you know you've made it in life when you are satirized on Saturday Night Live. Zuckerberg has successfully gone from geek to pop-culture iconoclast.

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China's Social Media Suppress China's Nobel Prize Winner Announcement

by Ron Callari

It seems the Norwegian Nobel Committee is controversial no matter who they select to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, it was U.S. President Barack Obama for lack of international experience and this year it's Liu Xiaobo, an imprisoned Chinese dissident. Igniting a fury amongst Chinese politicos, the award was criticized harshly for what the Chinese view as a violation the Committees' core principles in honoring "a criminal."

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Social Media's Geolocation Promotes Conan's Return To Late Night

by Ron Callari

Conan O'Brien is returning to the airwaves via a big ostentatious orange blimp and us Earthlings can follow its aerial whereabouts throughout the month of October via social media. Using the creative promotion team at Foursquare, the talk-show host has struck a deal with the location-based social network and AT&T to promote his new show on TBS, debuting November 8 at 11PM ET/ 10 Central - in a most unique way.

Social Media's Weak Ties Cannot Lead To Social Change?

by Ron Callari

In social media, sometimes its difficult to see the forest for trees. More than often many of us (including myself) get caught up in numbers. We replace quality with quantity because social media has this inherent sense of puffing up one's ego based on amassing large followings. Weak ties or connections to many is not a bad thing as long as it can be kept in perspective.

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U.S. Lags Behind Other Industrialized Nations In Survival Rates

by T Goodman

As of September 23,2010, the United States ranked forty-ninth internationally for both male andfemale life expectancy combined. If you want evidence that our health care system is not providing health care to our citizens, look no further than the results of this study, published online today in Health Affairs: What Changes In Survival Rates Tell Us About US Health Care. You may be surprised to learn why we've fallen behind.

Doctors Question New Cancer Treatment Device, NanoKnife

by T Goodman

A medical device called the NanoKnife by AngioDynamics, an innovator in the medical device field, is being questioned by members of the medical community because the device was fast-tracked by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and was approved without clinical studies in 2008. But...

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Got Milk? Good. Milk Helps You Lose Weight!

by T Goodman

Milk helps advance weight loss? That's a surprise to most of us, because many of the most popular diet programs exclude or minimize dairy products as part of their regimes. A two-year study shows not only that milk drinkers lose more weight, but that Vitamin D has other health benefits besides preventing skin cancer.

Awesome Eyeglasses For The Future Win Wall Street Journal Tech Award

by Myra Per-Lee

Edyeglass technology hasn't advance very much since the 19th century... until now. TruFocals, soon to be re-branded Superfocus, are the coolest things in prescription eyeglasses since Benjamin Franklin made his own. In fact, they are designed just like Franklin's glasses.

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Social Media Screens Prospective Employees & Clients

Social Media's Schadenfreude Screens Prospective Employees & Clients!

by Ron Callari

Be careful what you tweet, Flikr, YouTube and update - less you want to reduce your chances of getting hired or landing your next client. Social media is now officially the extension of one's resume. It adds another layer for discovery by prospective employers and companies. After all, who knows you better than your social networks?

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