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We’ve written before about SM friend Gene DeRose’s House Party. House Party launched a Kid-tribution House party hapenning August 15. Apply to host a Children International party to explore child sponsorship. The party pack from House Party includes a Family Feud game! Woot! Apply now!

Social Media for the social good.

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We’re so sorry SM readers!! The posts have slowed to a drought. But we’re back.

Here’s a video of a terrific pop/folk duo – Madison-Violet. In this live video they get audience participation but the women and guys are singing different keys. Really nice how they accomplished that!

If you’re in Wakefield, Canada on August 2nd, catch this duo at the Black Sheep Inn!!

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It’s a busy week at Cisco. First the networking giant joins the elite Dow Jones, and today it opens its Partner Summit Conference in Boston. CTO Padmasree Warrior kicks it off with a profound statement: “Great execution is almost always a competitive advantage over a good idea. Vision without execution is just a dream.”

So, Cisco will be executing on its vision (as reported by Var Guy):

Future of Work: Cisco and partners will focus on inter-company collaboration, mobile experience, clusters of experts and millennials. Voice, data and video must be integrated with consistency and interoperability, she notes, in order to drive the future of work collaboration.

Future of Connected Life: She noted trends like Internet mobility, video, content sharing (vs. owning) and lifestyle optimization. And she pointed out that the Flip video acquisition was not about the device. Rather, it’s about the architecture of tying the video content back to shared experiences.

Future of Computing: Warrior pulled up a classic chart showing the mainframe, microcomputer, client server, web and cloud eras. She pointed to virtualization as a disruptive force that set the stage for the cloud age.

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David Lynch has long understood the potential of the web for media and storytelling. In his latest Interview Project, he has assembled a team headed by son Austin to travel the US and collect remarkable stories from seemingly unremarkable people. 121 short episodes have been recorded. The first one, “Jess” debuted this week. It’s an interview with an older man looking for peace and hoping to find it in the desert near Needles, California.

Needles? Isn’t that where Snoopy’s brother lives?

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It’s too fun too ignore!  Like a late-night info-mercial!!  

Twitter-Power System WILL make you successful, and only cost you $77.  

C’mon it’s gotta be a joke – 10 CDs of Twitter marketing insights???   

The spelling mistakes alone are worth it…  ”Barack Obama become the president thanks to Twitter…”  

OK – judge for yourself…

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The most annoying error message that comes up time and time again on so many iPod touch apps is “acquiring current position…”. Then the stupid thing just hangs.
The problem seems to be that the application is looking for my GPS location, but trouble is, I’m not running the application using an iPhone, I’m using my iPod. So why can’t I just type in my location? Just once, somewhere, I wish I could type it in so that all of these cool apps could actually work on my iPod Touch.

To all the wonderful iPhone app developers, please give a quick test of your application on iPod Touch. With a couple of simple tweaks to make your application iPod Touch friendly, you will be broadening your market.

Please if anyone out there knows of a way to fix these error messages on the iPod Touch, please comment or email us a fix.  Preferably without going as far as full jailbreak.  We’d even pay upto about 6 bucks for such an app with or without Apple’s approval.

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Reportage is a new Twitter client for your iPhone. With it, your friends’ feeds become radio stations. The innovative UI navigates like a vintage radio tuner, while taking full advantage of the iPhone’s paging architecture.

This was created by Montreal-based WhereCloud. The company’s founders Martin Dufort and Fred Brunel are active members of the entrepreneur community in the Waterloo-Montreal tech corridor. Congratulations on a great-looking app!

via Scott Lake

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A domain hack refers to integrating the top-level domain within the web site’s name. This was all the rage many years back when del.icio.us launched. The name was so clever that it fooled Yahoo into actually spending tens of mega millions of $ to buy it. Fooli.sh

So where are all the good hacks now, and why don’t businesses use them more?

Here in Ottawa, Aydin Mirzaee co-founded a great startup called Chide.it (Italy TLD) Recently, social net entrepreneur Scott Lake wrote a blog called Technologi.ca. (Canada TLD) I really like the hosted operating system called G.ho.st (São Tomé and Príncipe TLD). Another São Tomé favourite is Lu.st.

One supplier of illegal modified satellite receivers has BellExpress.vu (Vanuatu TLD in the south Pacific) Bell Express Vu is Bell Canada’s branded TV service.

Meanwhile, a dude named John Van Den Berg has Jo.hn locked up (Honduras TLD). Unfortunately the site has nothing but his picture. With the Billions of Johns in the world, it’s a shame to have Jo.hn wasted in this way.

Then there’s the “unintended domain hacks”. The Canadian Chartered Accountant Association has a site called Cica.ca. All the pre-schoolers laugh at that one!

What’s your favourite hack?

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In the category of  ‘You just can’t get there from here’, Google Adsense out does itself with an infinite website loop error.

A few months ago, we decided we would give Google Adsense a try.  So we signed up for an account using our existing Google account.  We then diligently added our website for their review process that could take a few weeks to complete.  A few weeks later we went looking for the results.  Needless to say, no word from Google.  It would seem that our application was not even received.  So we tried again, only this time we kept getting the same error.  Account already activated, user id already exists.

Well, if you wouldn’t be darned that there was absolutely no way to get around this error loop.  We tried submitting a query to the support group, but no answer from Google.  So we tried a number of other approaches to resolve the site error.  Only thing is that if you’re not already a client, you just can’t get support or so it seems.  Seriously, give a try, see if you can get customer support from Google for Adsense if you’re not already a customer.  If you figure this out we’d love to hear how you did it, and we’ll forever be in awe of your guru Google powers.

Oh, and here’s the kicker.  According to Google’s terms and agreements to use Adsense, you can’t talk about Adsense on your blog.  I think it’s a silicon valley secret Fight Club thing.  First rule of Adsense, though shall not talk about Adsense.  Second rule of Adsense see first rule.  Actually, I think you’re not supposed to refer to the actual Adsense links on your site, otherwise you’re in violation.  Maybe talking about Adsense site loops you’re still in the club.

At any rate, I don’t think we’ll ever be given Adsense privaledges.  Um, if someone from Google is reading this and knows how to sort this out, we’ll happily delete this post for some help. thx

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Do you know what makes Zune a superior mp3 player? It supports file formats that were invented back in 1933! yep 76 year old files – namely – FM radio. Not to be outdone by Microsoft’s cunning visionaries, Apple published a patent application this week for a METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN ACCESSORY HAVING A TUNER. A tuner! Maybe those iPhone rumours are true after all. We hope that Apple goes beyond FM though. Why not throw in AM, Shortwave, and police band!

On the Microsoft patent front, they’ve published some interesting concepts this week. One is a COMMUNITY-BASED SOFTWARE APPLICATION HELP SYSTEM. Users will be able to share “how-to” videos with other users. CREATING VIRTUAL APPLICATIONS describes Microsoft’s extension of their VM technology to package a VA (virtual application) that includes an XML-based sequencer to configure and create the package.

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