From the monthly archives:

October 2009

Get a Trick Or Treat From Twitter

October 31, 2009 News

TECHCRUNCH – Twitter tweeted out a message today about a special Halloween feature if you Tweet “#trick” or “#treat.” It was difficult to figure out at first, but if you tweet either from your Twitter home page (this is key, you can’t enable the feature when you are on a client), your home page background [...]

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The Start-Up Connection – New Event for Entrepreneurs

October 29, 2009 Events

This morning, I was tipped off to what looks like an interesting upcoming event: The Start-up Connection. They are attempting to “link talent, entrepreneurs and enterprise” and all of this is taking place on November 17th. From their web site, here are some of the highlights of the event: – Start-up CEOs will meet talented [...]

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Google changing search algorithim to aid music searches

October 29, 2009 News

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — The Internet’s most popular search engine should get smarter about music, as Google updates the algorithms that power its searches this week, a company spokesman said. “You don’t have to know what your looking for,” Google’s Jennie Johnson said. “If it looks like they’re looking for a song, we’re including [...]

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More Than Coffee Is Paying It Forward All Week

October 26, 2009 Events

It is St Louis Shriner’s Hospital Week at West County coffee shop More Than Coffee. If you are not familiar with the coffee shop, it is, in the simplest of terms, a coffee shop that exists to help others. The owner, Sam Malek contributes portions of his profits to others who need a helping hand. [...]

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October Best Damn Happy Hour – New Event

October 26, 2009 Events

We have just received word that the Best Damn Happy Hour folks are holding their October event this Wednesday night at a new place in the Chesterfield Valley called Tribeca Bistro & Lounge. I can tell from reading that sentence back to myself that it probably raised many questions in your mind, so let me [...]

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U2 To Broadcast Concert on Youtube (fixed)

October 23, 2009 News

This Sunday, October 25th, Irish rock band U2 will be performing in Los Angeles at the Rose Bowl to a record 96,000 fans. The band will also be streaming the entire concert live on Youtube. Youtube says it is confident it can withstand the load of viewers, but if you do find yourself having difficulty [...]

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Coverage of Last Night’s @missrogue Tweetup

October 23, 2009 Events

Just a quick hit to let you know that if, like me, you missed last night’s tweetup with Tara Hunt, and were wondering how it all went down, Bill Streeter has a nice recap of the event over at his tech blog at the Daily RFT. Check it out! Oh, and even though I was [...]

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Tonight: Impromptu Tweetup With @Missrogue

October 22, 2009 Events

The lovely and fabulous Tara Hunt is in our fair city for just a night or two and it would be a travesty not to show her a good time. This impromptu Tweetup is all about getting great people together for great food and great drinks in a great local establishment. And getting them all [...]

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Google To Launch Social Search

October 21, 2009 News

MASHABLE – Google’s Vice-President of Search Marissa Mayer has just made a surprise announcement at the Web 2.0 Expo: a new Google Labs feature called Social Search. They just gave a quick demo of the new feature. While the details are still sparse, here is a rundown of what is known so far: – The [...]

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We Spend 8 Billion Minutes a Day on Facebook

October 21, 2009 News

Earlier at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Facebook VP of Engineering Mike Schroepfer, (the rich geek to the left) laid out some incredible stats during a presentation about his company. These statistics are even more incredible if you consider that Facebook is by and large pretty stable. especially when compared to it’s (smaller) [...]

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Apple is Beginning to Embrace Twitter

October 20, 2009 News

Not traditionally known as a company that engages in a lot of social media, Apple is quietly building up a presence on Twitter. TechCrunch recently reported that Apple recently registered a number of Twitter accounts to advertise movies, music, TV and podcasts on iTunes. The Cupertino, Calif., company started its first official account, iTunesTrailer, in [...]

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Cardinals President To Host Online Chat Today

October 20, 2009 Events

St. Louis Cardinals President Bill Dewitt will host a question and answer session online with fans this afternoon. The chat will be on the St. Louis Cardinals website at noon. If you are interested in asking a question, head on over to the Cardinals website and get yourself registered.  

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Say “Goodbye @ChinaCat, Hello SeattleCat” Tweetup

October 20, 2009 Events

A few months ago, a friend of mine, @versadave, blogged about what social media did for him. In that article, he spoke of a particular woman named @chinacat that he became friends with through social networking. Sonya and her son are making a cross country relocation trek in just a few short days. St. Louis [...]

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Ahoy! Free Pirate Comedy Tonight

October 14, 2009 Events

Tonight is the latest installment of Craig Mayhem’s Nucular Comedy show at the Atomic Cowboy. This is a free show that kicks off at 8:00. Tonight’s festivities will also feature a tweetup beforehand. The tweetup, organized by Kelli Best-Oliver, kicks off at 7:00. As I mentioned the event is free to attend – meaning no [...]

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Need To Learn To Blog? Head Over To The Interactive Festival

October 14, 2009 Events

This Saturday October 17th is the second annual St. Louis Interactive Festival, a free one day conference (festival?) for bloggers and social media types of all abilities and skill levels brought to you by The St. Louis Bloggers Guild. Whether you are just starting out or are a seasoned blogging veteran, there is sure to [...]

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