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What Do Axl Rose, Warren Buffett, and a Thieving Rat Have in Common?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 0 Comments

Warren Buffett, Axl Rose, and a Thieving Rat are all on the front page of Answer Guy Central right now.

That’s it. I was amused to see these three very different guys all hanging out in the same place, especially since only two of the three actually have anything in common (scratching your head a little? I hope not!).

Axl, Warren, and the thieving rat won’t be on “page one” for much longer, but at least you’ll always be able to find them together on the archives page for Answer Guy Central in April 2012. ... READ MORE of What Do Axl Rose, Warren Buffett, and a Thieving Rat Have in Common? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (124 words, 3 images, estimated 30 secs reading time)

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Merengue Dancing Dog: Better Marketing Than Cute Kittens?

Posted on July 6, 2011 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

 

So you tell me: Is a merengue dancing dog even better at marketing than really cute kittens?

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Click On Her To See The Merengue Dog Dancing!

Just Had To Share … don’t you wish your dog could dance the merengue like that?

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The Beatles First-Ever US Concert

Posted on November 16, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

Seriously . . . The Whole Thing. Thank you Apple, (and Apple).

The sound is awful, the video grainy, and there are no production values at all, but . . . wow. Just Watch The Boys. THESE Beatles were having a whole lot of fun.

Remember when life was simple?

The Beatles, Live Oops. Apple has nuked this Beatles Live Concert Video. It was fun while it lasted . . .

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Hacking WiFi at Starbucks With FireSheep. We’ll Help, Free

Posted on October 29, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

This week, it became way easier to steal other people’s log-in information at Starbucks and in other public W-Fi locations.

Firesheep, an add-on for the Firefox web browser, lets you see the cookies in the computers that other people logged into the same WiFi Network you’re using are accessing. Translation: if someone logs into Facebook from the table across from you at Starbucks, you can get their user name and password, really easily. And <poof> . . . they’re hacked.

And oh yes: that means if they use Firesheep they can do it to you, too. ... READ MORE of Hacking WiFi at Starbucks With FireSheep. We’ll Help, Free at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (273 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

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Self-Editing, Transparency, and Social Networking Context

Posted on October 22, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

This morning I came across a post by Fred Wilson. Fred’s a venture capitalist in New York City, and while we sometimes see things exactly the same way, this morning was not one of those times.

Fred was bemoaning a problem he’s been having lately: like me, he writes his thoughts out in public (to a much larger audience, by the way), and he’s noticed that he needs to edit those thoughts somewhere between his head and his fingers.

His problem is that it feels to him as though that self-editing gets in the way of his belief in transparency. ... READ MORE of Self-Editing, Transparency, and Social Networking Context at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (373 words, estimated 1:30 mins reading time)

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By Patent, iPhone users options for Sex are Narrowing

Posted on October 15, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 4 Comments

As you know, I have plenty to say about Patents. Software Patents in particular bother me, and this week Apple was issued a patent that scares me for an almost-new reason.

Apple has a history of uneven actions on nudity, pornography and censorship. Steve Jobs has gone so far as to state that he know what iTunes Store customers want, and that it’s to be protected from those things. I’m dismayed that Steve thinks he should be the world’s censor, but it’s his party. So if you buy an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch and want naughty apps you’ll just have to find another way to get them. And hope Apple doesn’t scrub them from your device without your permission. ... READ MORE of By Patent, iPhone users options for Sex are Narrowing at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (346 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

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When A Tweet Falls in the Forest and No-one Hears It …

Posted on September 30, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

Guess what? Nobody’s reading your Words of Wisdom on Twitter.

Actually, it’s possible that many people are reading what you write, but if research from Sysomos is to be believed, 71% of the time people Tweet, absolutely nobody responds.

This dovetails with a couple of things I’ve written about before: your follower count on Twitter is pretty much meaningless, and unless you have a reason to tweet, you shouldn’t bother.

The question, though, remains: how should your business use social networking? ... READ MORE of When A Tweet Falls in the Forest and No-one Hears It … at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (301 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

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Facebook, Twitter Show All. Is It Time for FILTERED Search?

Posted on September 23, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 2 Comments

Drowning in information? Feel like Google’s search results are too hard to wade through? And never mind the fire hose that is Twitter. Or Facebook.

Maybe it’s time for filtered search.

Actually, this isn’t a new idea; it’s just one that we mostly ignore. Your browser has some sort of “safe searching” mechanism built into it, but most people don’t give it a thought. And there’s no good reason to; if you ask what is being filtered by your browser you’re not going to get a real answer. ... READ MORE of Facebook, Twitter Show All. Is It Time for FILTERED Search? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (250 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)

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Google Kills The Droid? Nah. But Verizon Just Did.

Posted on August 2, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

I’ve expressed concern about the way Google is handling the Android Operation System. I even went so far as to suggest that Google Had Killed The Droid.

Today, Verizon put the nail in that coffin. And it’s about grabbing more of your money. Thanks, guys.

Of course, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when Verizon or any other business tries to make money, and let’s be frank: SmartPhones have a notoriously short shelf life. But with the update to Android 2.2 slated to happen to Verizon’s original Droid this week I find it incredibly short-sighted that Verizon has announced that the update will omit the two most interesting features of the so-called “Froyo” Android update. ... READ MORE of Google Kills The Droid? Nah. But Verizon Just Did. at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (301 words, estimated 1:12 mins reading time)

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Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox: Your Facebook Friends

Posted on July 21, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 3 Comments

What’s huge, takes up too much of your time, and delivers a constant stream of information you don’t want?

Facebook.

“The” Social Networking Site accounts for fully one in every fourteen pages viewed on the Internet, and if you use Facebook you’ve noticed that a lot of what it thinks should be important to you just plain isn’t. Yesterday, Facebook decided that since I follow The President of The United States, I’d be interested in Lady Gaga and Megan Fox:

Jeff Yablon Facebook Friends Barack Obama, Megan Fox, and Lady Gaga ... READ MORE of Barack Obama, Lady Gaga, Megan Fox: Your Facebook Friends at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (308 words, 1 image, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

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Apple Friend Bar Sounds Just LIKE Social Networking!

Posted on July 8, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 1 Comment

Do I talk enough about the importance of an effective social networking strategy for your business? Maybe not.

The Onion has posted a video that takes the social networking thing to new levels, while poking fun at Apple, Apple fanboys, and social networking itself. The video has gone viral, which should be all the proof you need of how important understanding social networking and using social media is:

Forget Facebook; you never get to actually meet your peeps, and when you talk at them you can’t control their inclination to walk away. ... READ MORE of Apple Friend Bar Sounds Just LIKE Social Networking! at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (242 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

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You Can and You Should Aren’t the Same: LogMeIn Android

Posted on June 24, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 7 Comments

One of the beautiful things about using SmartPhones like the iPhone, or my Android-based Droid is that I can now access my computer from literally anywhere, and I don’t even need to carry a notebook computer to do it.

Of course, that’s one of the ugly things too; being connected all the time means either that you let your work take over your life or you create rules to prevent that. ... READ MORE of You Can and You Should Aren’t the Same: LogMeIn Android at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (560 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

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HTC Sense Android Phones Capture Screen. So Why Can’t YOU?

Posted on June 18, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 33 Comments

As an Android user, one of the things that I’ve yet to figure out is why there are no Apps to capture what’s on my screen. They just don’t exist.

OK, so that’s not completely true. If I “root” my Droid SmartPhone, meaning tweak it to bypass the regular Android operating system and make it do stuff that Verizon, Motorola, and Google didn’t intend, screen grabs become a possibility. I give up my warranty and any hope for technical support if I even need it, but I gain some control and a feature I often wish I had. ... READ MORE of HTC Sense Android Phones Capture Screen. So Why Can’t YOU? at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (241 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

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Worse Than Facebook: Amazon Non-Unique Patent 7,739,139

Posted on June 17, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 15 Comments

Remember back in February when Facebook was awarded United States Patent 7669123 for Social Networking? Remember how little sense that made? Well, our friends at the United States Patents and Trademarks Office have set the bar for stupidity even higher. Friends, I give you USPTO example # 7,739,139 of not understanding what a patent is, or even what a patent is supposed to be for. ... READ MORE of Worse Than Facebook: Amazon Non-Unique Patent 7,739,139 at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (479 words, estimated 1:55 mins reading time)

Filed Under: Development, Uncategorized

Don’t Have A Message? Then Stop Blogging AND Dump Twitter!

Posted on June 2, 2010 by --Jeff Yablon/The Answer Guy-- Influency & Integrated Marketing Strategist • 5 Comments

Clients (and others) ask me all the time: how do I find something new to write about five times each week? My answer is simple: I’m passionate about what I write about, and the people who come here like it, get value from it, and call The Computer Answer Guy, or Answer Guy Central, or PC-VIP when they need our help.

I write this, then, because there are reasons for me to do so. So why are you using Twitter, Facebook, or any of the many other social networking tools that have taken hold of us, our businesses, and our lives? ... READ MORE of Don’t Have A Message? Then Stop Blogging AND Dump Twitter! at Answer Guy Central, your Influency and Integrated Marketing Source By Clicking Here (336 words, estimated 1:21 mins reading time)

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