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Live Webcast: Getting to Microsoft Office 365: The Right Migration for Your Business
If you've been stuck using bare bones, web-based tools, you'll appreciate the full featured collaboration in MS Office 365. Check out this live webcast to learn more about Microsoft Office 365,...
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Fear the Googler, not the Google
We're way past what Chris most fears, all of us. It takes just a few minutes with the Google to collect highlights of all the personal data and insights of any of us.
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Is Nintendo about to challenge Jenny Craig?
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the power of Nintendo's Wii and virtual gaming to improve the health and well being of society. Depending on whose statistics you prefer to disbelieve,...
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If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 2)
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk continues his examination of what it means to be a nerd in part 2 of his review of David Anderegg’s new book, “Nerds.� Last week, I wrote about the concept of...
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Microsoft's bid for Yahoo--it's a Tom Cruise story
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk puts Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo in layperson terms. I once went to dinner with a very well-known TV actress. When she flew to New York to do Regis and Kelly,...
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If you call someone a 'nerd' are you a moron? (Part 1)
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk examines what it means to be a nerd in part 1 of his review of David Anderegg's new book, "Nerds." Do you ever take an instant dislike to people, without ever really...
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Ohmigod! Social networkers just can't take it any more!
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk parses the latest numbers from ComScore on social network activity. While looking for something that amused me and stopped me from replying to the likeness quiz...
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Facebook's social pyramid schemers
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk laments the way some Facebook applications behave, creating what he calls "pre-pubescent pyramid selling." I have friends who seem to have a strangely close...
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Another great contribution to humanity from the folks who brought you Chuck E. Cheese and Atari
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk explores the latest high-tech concept in dining from Nolan Bushnell, of Chuck E. Cheese and Atari fame. We all have our bad waiter stories. I confess that recently,...
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Has Nick Carr flipped? Or have we?
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk follows on my review of Nick Carr's new book with the saga of his own trying exegesis of the text. "You're obsessed with sex," said my ZDNet handler, looking...
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At last, a tech company that can help you sniff out a life partner
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a look at ScientificMatch, a site that claims it will find you that special someone with the help of a test tube. I have friends who tried match.com. They met...
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Will you be having sex with a robot in five years' time?
I will resist suggesting I am starting off the New Year with a bang when I reveal that a new and very important and/or disturbing (depending on whether you have laced your cornflakes with a David...
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Oh, go on, techies, read some bloody fiction during the holidays
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk offers some reading suggestions for this holiday season, when techies should be taking a respite from their digital labors. It is holiday time, and, in my tech...
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Will co-habitation be a new business for Facebook?
Guest post: Fresh from a sojourn to UK where he grew up, Chris Matyszczyk considers the latest trend in London home buying--speed-dating via Facebook to find co-buyers for real estate purchases....
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AskEraser takes on Google, Yahoo and Jason Bourne
So here we all are sharing all our latest news with everyone on MySpace and Facebook ("I just went to the loo!!!" "My baseball cap just fell off on the Golden Gate Bridge!!!") when along comes...
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Are the people telling Google it's time for a redesign?
I was waiting at an airport for a very long flight the other day when I came across the Search Results League Table. This was the one declaring that, for example, Jessica Alba was the 10th most...
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What are the best interests of advertisers on Facebook?
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk, who has spent 15 years as a creative director crafting messages for advertisers, explains what advertisers really want in the age of Facebook. I wonder if Mark...
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Can Burt Reynolds inspire lust for Michael Dell's products?
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk takes a surreal tour of Dell's Star Power holiday shopping Web site featuring Burt Reynolds and other celebrities. If you searched the Web for the next month, how...
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Is Facebook banking that you're a beacon of egomania?
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk writes that the greatest commercial battle currently is between the ad and the algorithm, between predictability and "ticklability." Facebook needs to figure out how...
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Google and the 'American Idol' creator: The secret tapes
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk considers what Google and Idol creator and entertainment impresario Simon Fuller might be cooking up that could revolutionize TV. It has been revealed that Google has...
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If you don't like a Facebook advertiser, defriend them
Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk has spent years creating award-winning advertisements to motivate buyers. Facebook's ad platform simply reaffirms that individuals are media. Everything is now a...
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