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Poken Destruction – How to Make Friends

Poken is a technology that utilizes Near Field Communication technology to allow the exchange of online social networking data between two keychain accessories. They can be used to connect people with Internet profiles like Facebook, Xing or other social networks. All you need to do is let the hands touch each other. Later you connect […]

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Thoughts on Twitter

Note: This article started completely different than it is now. I have just written down what just came out of my head! Remember the time when everybody was working hard to get a higher and higher Google Pagerank? Hours spent by marketers to get sites to link to your site. Paying good money to have […]

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Facebook REALLY likes FriendFeed

As reported by TechCrunch and confirmed by Facebook’s press release, FriendFeed has been acquired by Facebook. So what will happen now? FriendFeed is such a small player compared to Facebook that this acquisition is not about users. It is all about the team behind FriendFeed. So within a short time FriendFeed will die. There is […]

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Arimaz & MyDeskFriend

Arimaz is a Swiss startup of which I have never heard. Sure, there must be hundreds or even thousands of startups in Switzerland I haven’t discovered yet. But surprisingly, Arimaz gets quiet some attention these days. And all because of a mini-robot the company is putting out in September. The robot is called MyDeskFriend and […]

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