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One Is The Loneliest Number, Unless You Attend Sex Ed Classes in Spain!

by Ron Callari

You've got to "hand it to" the Spaniards. Differing markedly from our puritanical society, they're taking a very touchy subject matter and handing it off to their students...literally! While some feel that pleasuring one's self should be taught behind closed doors or picked up in the streets, the country's Extremadura region has chosen to address it front and center in their classrooms.

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Send Your Weight Directly To Twitter With The Body Scale

by Chris Weiss

With just $160, you can buy in to new heights of embarrassment. Begin sending regular tweets about your weight/fat content by jumping on the Body Scale.

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"Geotagged Tweets" Coming To A City Near You!

by Ron Callari

Since the "location-based social network" train has left the station, Twitter has not only jumped on board, it appears to be the locomotive engineer. And now with 3rd party apps purchasing tickets on the "Twitter Local Express" the microblogging network is expanding its coordinates to offer up the longitude and latitude of all your tweets.

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Instant Mashed Potatoes On Thanksgiving? You Betcha!

by Toby

I rarely eat mashed potatoes except on Thanksgiving, and maybe Christmas. Of course, I always mashed the potatoes myself. It would kill my family to think that I'd whipped up instant mashed potatoes to serve to them. But, guess what? I'm going to serve instant mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving - the same kind my husband made for me....

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6380 Senior Cell Phone Helps Older Folks Keep In Touch

by Chris Weiss

An oversized phone designed just for seniors, this one could help get older folks excited about cell phone technology. Probably not, though.

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Cyberchondria & The Art Of Googling Oneself Silly!

by Ron Callari

An actual research study titled "Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search" was recently conducted by Microsoft researchers Ryen W. White and Eric Horvitz to analyze how the Web enables those obsessed in researching illnesses. A survey of 515 Microsoft employees determined that Internet surfing regarding health issues is on the rise. Inquiring minds want to know what's ailing them and why they are obsessed with tracking down health symptoms online from the common cold to cancer.

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LinkedIn & Twitter - Like Peanut Butter & Chocolate!

by Ron Callari

In the days of yore (3 years ago), when social networks were first making their mark on the digital landscape, there was a divide between those networks you chose for business and those selected for fun. Today, those worlds collide, as LinkedIn and Twitter formally get "linked" to each other. And the combination is sweeter than PB&J.

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Japanese Fashion Designer United Bamboo Creates Cat Ready-To-Wear!

by Lady Bee

It was just a matter of time before a Japanese fashion house began seriously designing for cats; cat-dressing is getting too big for the petwear trade. United Bamboo has come out with a line of ready-to-wear for cats that match their women's fashions for the Fall and Winter season 2009 - 2010. Here is a preview of the collection....

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First Exclusive Green Marketplace For Hotels Launches

by Ron Callari

On November 9, EcoGreenHotel announced the official launch of it’s new online store, EcoGreenHotelStore.com. It's virtually a green marketplace for hotels and a one-stop marketplace of over 1000 products and services for the green hospitality industry. As more and more hotels become green-certified and more guests request "green" accommodations, the EcoGreenHotel Store is satisfying the needs of both the hotelier and the traveler.

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NC-17 Rating For Xbox 360 Users Restricts Tweets

by Ron Callari

Restricting Xbox Live for 17 yrs-old and younger

Not only are teenagers 17 and younger allowed to watch certain movies, Xbox 360 just banished them from accessing social networks. Strange that the teen demographic that is the target market for Xbox systems are restricted from from the Xbox Live's new integration of Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm. And with Christmas right around the corner!

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Junaio Adds 3D & AR To Location-Based Social Network

by Ron Callari

When Rod Serling first uttered, "there is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity...this is the dimension of imagination," he might have been giving us a prescient glimpse into the future of Junaio.

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The Droid "Cash For Clunkers" Deal For iPhones

by Ron Callari

With the heightened buying frenzy surrounding the launch of Google's new smartphone, the Droid, it was no surprise that someone would piggyback off of the hype! While Google conducts its first-time TV advertising, Flipswap, a trade-in service aggressively jumped into the foray with a unique offer to swap cash for your old 'clunky' iPhones. ( Where was the Administration on this one?)

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Club Bounce: Long Beach Night Club For The Big And The Beautiful

by Beth Hodgson

Club Bounce is a controversial Long Beach California night club that caters to a niche audience. Some feel it's discriminatory, others feel it actually eliminates discrimination; but everyone who visits has one thing in common, and it's not just their love of bumping and grinding with a vodka tonic in hand.

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"Social Awareness" To Replace Social Networking

by Ron Callari

The Internet of Things is fast approaching and with it comes Web 3.0, where "social awareness" will replace "social networking." Soon tweets and status updates will become fully automated and generated by the world around us versus us ever having to touch a keyboard again.

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EOps i24R3: The Odd, Little One-Speaker Surround Sound System

by Chris Weiss

Reaching a point where convenience diminishes utility, the EOps i24R3 speaker is an interesting speaker design from Hong Kong that packs an entire surround sound sytem into one, portable package.

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Retweeting In The Wild - Project Retweet Launches

by Ron Callari

November 5: Twitter rolls out Project Retweet to a limited audience. According to their recent blog post, the Twitter echelon wants to see how it will "work in the wild," before offering it up to the Twitterverse.

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Multi-Function Biking: The PUYL Bike Light/Pump

by Chris Weiss

An efficient, multi-functional cycling concept, PUYL provides both light and air, two necessary components for any night cyclist.

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Is Leapfish, Search's Missing Link?

by Ron Callari

Many have tried, but it's been over a decade and none have succeeded in out-Googlin' Google. Yet here we go again, with yet another search engine entering stage right trying to capture our "attention-deficit" attention. Repackaging online search as something new infers the Web has evolved. And while real-time and social search have certainly changed the alchemy of search, what does Leapfish know that has eluded Google et al?

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World's Most Powerful (and Unnecessary) IPod Speaker

by Chris Weiss

Want to drop several thousand dollars to play your collection of pirated MP3 tracks in high-quality, crystal-clear audio. Read on and find out why you don't.

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How "Mickey Mouse" Is Re-Branding?

by Ron Callari

While branding oneself takes time and effort to spin out a new product, re-branding can take several washes to redefine that same brand. Take for example the work United Airlines had to accomplish after breaking someone's guitar. Let alone the number of Twitter apologies issued forth by Chris Brown and Kanye West. But when others do it in reverse and run their good-guy image through a darkside wash cycle, the task might be a little easier. Such is the case with the re-engineering of one Mickey Mouse.

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