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  • One for another Little known fact: in 2004, I moved and became a South Carolinian.  Leaving PA was something I had always wanted to do and I had no intention of returning.  Then something funny happened. A goal got in the way. I was going to put myself through college and, well, I was still considered an out-of-stater.  That means [...]
    8 months on
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  • Making tough decisions I thought I had a finished version of Abuzz, the iPhone app I’ve been diligently working on since the beginning of October.  However, I suddenly realized that I’d be putting something out that I wasn’t totally satisfied with.  There were a few features I was going to have pushed out in an update later, but [...]
    8 months on
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  • What a terrible game May I pause from my posts about tech and write a little about the Eagles/Cowboys game tonight?  Thank you. There is one word that sums up Philly’s performance tonight – disgraceful.  With a first-round bye, a home playoff game and the NFC East crown on the line, the Eagles came out and played more like a [...]
    8 months on
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  • What a terrible game May I pause from my posts about tech and write a little about the Eagles/Cowboys game tonight?  Thank you. There is one word that sums up Philly’s performance tonight – disgraceful.  With a first-round bye, a home playoff game and the NFC East crown on the line, the Eagles came out and played more like a [...]
    8 months on
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  • If only Google Voice had MMS… There is one thing and one thing only that is keeping me from totally moving over to Google Voice. The lack of MMS support. I have this fancy iPhone thingamabob and I had to wait a long time to send and receive multimedia messages on it.  Do you really think I’m going to give that up now? I’d [...]
    8 months on
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  • What are your goals for 2010? I have a few – some large, some small.  I’m hoping that putting them out there for the world to see will help me follow through. Write at least one blog post per day. Write a full-length novel. Attend at least three tech conferences/unconferences. Shape Abuzz into a must-have search application. Pay off at least half of my student loans. What [...]
    8 months on
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  • Prediction results for 2009, not good This post takes a look back at my 5 ballsy social media predictions for 2009 post, written on December 20, 2008. Needless to say, there will not be a predictions post written for 2010.  I am clearly not Desmond Hume (come on, LOST nerds). Twitter will be bought. Nope.  They did, however, get a huge boost from [...]
    8 months on
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  • What’s Abuzz? Well, it’s an iPhone app. :) Abuzz lets you search Twitter, the blogosphere, the forumsphere (or whatever it’s called) and Digg.  It lets you organize your keyword searches into campaigns so that you can keep your related searches together.  You can search all the supported services at once or customize your search to include results from [...]
    8 months on
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  • When fighting back is acceptable First things first – read this post.  Go ahead.  I’ll wait for you. … Now, let me try to figure out where you stand.  You could be in one of three camps: You respect Chris Brogan and you’re put off by that post, You think the blogger is raising some valid points, or You just don’t care If you’re in Camp [...]
    10 months on
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  • The State of the Shawn Address First off – how creepy is this picture?  All the credit goes to FaceInHole.com, where you can replace faces in a bunch of different scenarios with your own creepy face.  Now, on to the good stuff. Back in May, I decided to strike out on my own with Socialust Creative.  The job market certainly had a [...]
    10 months on
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  • Dell Support, you rock A terrible, terrible thing happened last night – my spacebar stopped working on my Dell Studio laptop. Think about it for a second.  The spacebar is one of the most crucial keys on the keyboard.  Without it, yoursentenceslooklikethis.  Bad news for someone who writes as much as I do.  I was able to plug a USB [...]
    11 months on
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