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Israel on Twitter for Responses

The Consulate General of Israel in New York is on Twitter, and will hold a Twitter news conference this afternoon. Consulate General of Israel in New York … Read entire article »

Filed under: Our Allies, Tech, War on Terror

Help a Reporter

Social media guru Peter Shankman has an innovative idea up, called Help a Reporter. The premise is simple. Build a network of people on-line who know something. Have writers and reporters submit their information needs to the site. Twice a day, broadcast the current list of needs with contact info to the membership. I’ve signed up, and responded to one request already. Many of the requests are very specific, regional or for a certain professional profile. Shankman asks only one thing, that you reply to a request only if your ability to assist is right on target. The system will function only if writers and reporters experience responses from experts and not a lot of BS. In return, he promises that there will be no spam, ever. If you’ve ever read a news … Read entire article »

Filed under: Media, Tech

Review: New Web Browser – Flock 1.2.1

Maria Reyes-McDavis, the Web Success Diva, caught my eye with a Tweet about a browser called Flock. I had never heard of it but I have rapidly tired of IE7 as my browser. I went to IE7 when Netscape announced it was folding its browser. Since Firefox 3.0 was coming out, and did get released to a huge (8 million downloads plus) audience, I was leaning towards it. I checked out the Diva’s post, and from there went to Flock’s website. Flock introduces itself as “the social web browser”. Built on the open source Mozilla platform, it incorporates logged in access to many social networking sites. For now, I’m up on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail and Flickr. Internet users spend a lot of time going from one site to the next, keeping up with a … Read entire article »

Filed under: Original writing, Reviews