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Retailers still reeling from the Thanksgiving weekend sales have turned in their numbers and the picture is very interesting. In short, between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, this past weekend was the most successful four days for retail ever.  What does this say about our society?  It says it’s shopping season!  More importantly, what do [...]

The Internet has made everyone’s life easier in many respects. It is no longer necessary to hand write letters, nor is it difficult to keep up with headlines from around the world or the score from Sunday’s game. Perhaps one of the biggest changes that the Internet offers, however, is online shopping. Gone are the [...]

We will not see the likes of you again. Thank you for bringing the next stage of human evolution to market. In 1984, you changed the game of human civilization by bringing the personal computer to the masses. You brought us Toy Story and Finding Nemo–two academy award winners.  You changed the music industry with [...]

It seems like it was just yesterday, that I was preening my first Facebook page to reflect my best qualities. Six years and 750 million user later, Facebook is a global force raking in billions and set to eclipse 1 billion users, a landmark achievement for any company, never mind one that offers most of [...]

O-rings are commonplace in today’s world, used in everything from water filtration systems to aircraft to oil field equipment. O-rings, while principally simple in design, couldn’t be more critical. No case more clearly demonstrates that then the tragic event of the Space Shuttle Challenger. While it was clearly disastrous, time has taken what was once [...]

Ya know…when I think back fondly of my college years and the exorbitant amount of time I wasted discovering and perusing the as then emerging technological wonders of the world wide wide web, I find myself shockingly nostalgic for the crappy flash animation videos that I so thoroughly enjoyed while sitting around my freshman dorm [...]

Evidently this Infographic was in actuality never an infographic at all, but a picture that was featured in an article in USA Today. Whether it was intentionally designed to be a picture of the sun giving a thermometer an “old fashioned,” or just “one of those the things” that somehow slipped past the editors is [...]

Just about anyone out there who works in Search Engine Optimization or social media knows the frustration that can be found when searching for a source of credible backlinks or good social media interaction. The environment that exists out there for anyone looking to boost their pagerank is downright hostile. Nobody within their right mind [...]

The digital streaming music service “Spotify” that just about everyone in the U.K. has been raving about for sometime has finally come to America. Currently the only viable option for actually getting a free account to this fantastic service is through personal invite from the service itself, but According to this informative article…there is another [...]