Archive for 2010



`12 Days of Christmas’ Items’ Cost Nears $100,000

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In the unlikely event that your Christmas list this year includes every item mentioned in “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” be prepared to pay nearly $100,000. Trying to buy the 364 items repeated in all the song’s verses — from 12 drummers drumming to a partridge in a pear tree — would [...]

Facebook Passes eBay in Value, Becoming No. 3 U.S. Web Company

Facebook Inc.’s estimated worth is now bigger than Ebay Inc.’s valuation, making it the third- largest U.S. Internet business and underscoring the growing allure of social media for investors. Facebook’s stock is trading at more than $16 on SecondMarket Inc., an exchange for shares of privately held companies, said a person familiar with the latest [...]

We Have ALL Been Here!

How many of you can see this picture, and totally relate? Working for any company that directly works for others, you want to do the best to provide for your clients every need, want, and whim. Lets face it, sometimes things fall through the cracks. We all have those 1 or 5 clients that are [...]

Meister Brau, Braniff and 148 Other Trademarks to Be Sold at Auction

CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Meister Brau occupies an important place in U.S beer history as the precursor to Miller Lite — and, more recently, as the favorite beer of Cousin Eddie, the unforgettable red neck in National Lampoon’s “Vacation” movies. Now it can be yours. http://adage.com/article?article_id=146984

Hardees, Carl’s Jr. Launch Mobile Apps With Check-ins

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Add two more to the list of marketers trying to emulate Foursquare: fast-food chains Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. The two CKE Restaurant fast-food chains are launching their own loyalty mobile apps to reward customers for “checking in” at any one of their 3,000 locations around the country. The app, for iPhones [...]

The Twinkie Diet Actually WORKED??????

First thing, it is stated right off, THIS IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO TRY!!!! There is ABSOLUTELY NO guarantee that this diet would work for you!! For 10 weeks, a Professor of Human Nutrition at Kansas State University lived on Twinkies, Nutty Bars, and Powdered Donuts. He would eat one every 3 hours instead of meals. [...]

So, You Still Don’t Have A Facebook Account? Come on, Even the QUEEN Has One!!!

The Queen of England OFFICIALLY has a Facebook Page! As of this past Monday, the Queen of England herself, has a Facebook page. Of course it is not her “personal” page, but it is a British Monarchy page. You can view the page here http://www.facebook.com/TheBritishMonarchy. Unfortunately, at this time, we are unable to “friend” the [...]

Google to add In-Flight WiFi for Holidays

If you want to fly this holiday season, and happen to have a ticket booked on AirTran, Delta, or Virgin America, you can thank Google for in flight Wi-Fi access! Google Chrome has teamed up once again with the travel industry to provide Gogo Inflight Internet to passengers from November 20, 2010 to January 2, [...]

We live in a Twitter-iffic world….

Twitter is slowly revolutionizing the way in which we communicate. You can tell which of your Facebook friends also have Twitter, and use it regularly. If you think about it, you don’t realize how long your normal, everyday thoughts are, until you are given a limit of characters in which to express that thought. I [...]