Best damn gingerbread house competition ever! #gingerbreadcollective
Holiday music junkie? Get 25 tracks free on Amazon :)
The Lady Gaga track is a little odd, but still a pretty cool promotion if you're into holiday music. :)
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It's Hip to Be Square: @Jack Talks Mobile Payments on NBC San Diego
Jack Dorsey was kind of enough to do a live iChat interview with me this morning to talk all things Square. While there wasn't enough time to answer all the outstanding questions out there (like privacy concerns), we did touch on the biggies like price point, use cases, and how it actually works. Personally, I can't wait to get my hands on one of those squares. Cash-only could be a thing of the past. I could easily see this being used at garage sales, as a way of processing event ticket sales, or buying items from street vendors.
A pop track for the track
This song has recently made my running playlist. While at first I hated it, now I find it completely addictive.
Hot Clicks: Search Trends in 2009 [As Seen on NBC]
Here are the notes I prepared for the segment:
Top Search Trends 2009
Now is the time of year where we can look back at 2009 and reflect on what affected us the most...
- Goolge, Yahoo, Microsoft released findings from 2009 search data- Search market share: Google 64.9%, Yahoo 18.8%, Microsoft (Bing) 9.4%
- Search behaviors highlight most popular and most significant people and events of the yearThemes of the year, based on search:- Michael Jackson's death had a monumental impact on the world, Michael Jackson is Google's fastest rising search term for 2009 globally, as well as Bing and Yahoo's post popular search of the year
- Twitter/Facebook are growing in mainstream popularity/curiosity: Facebook is Google's second fastest rising term for 2009 globally. Twitter #2 search on Bing, and #1 fastest rising search in Google for the US (#4 globally).
- What a difference a year makes, Barack Obama comes in 4th on Google's fastest falling list (last year on the fastest rising list)Pop culture top hits:- Twilight: #2 search on Yahoo
- Megan Fox: #4 search on Yahoo & top Yahoo mobile search, #3 most searched for celeb on Bing
- the Gosselins: #8 search on Bing, but #1 search on Yahoo's top 10 list of sudden-fame searches for 2009
- Susan Boyle: #2 fastest rising search on Google News in US, Yahoo's #3 in their sudden fame list
- Swine Flu: #3 search on Bing, and Google's fastest rising news item for the year in US
Mobile is huge:
- Top mobile searches, like mobile games, movies, and lady gaga, on Yahoo point to mainstream adoption of the mobile web and a growing desire to consume entertainment and media from mobile devices.
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