• Online video viewers better informed voters
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According to a study by Sage Software and AMI-Partners, more than 260,000 small businesses in the US and Canada employ social networking tactics, too.

Most of them used professional social networking sites such as LinkedIn. General social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook were also widely used, followed by niche communities and job sites.

Less popular were microblogging services (such as Twitter and Yammer), forums, wikis and social bookmarking applications.

The reasons for adopting social networking tactics varied, but the most widespread uses of social media were for responding to customer questions, networking, and reference and educational purposes.

Many of the small business’ I speak to are not using social media but they are “looking at it”. The recession however is fueling interest in social media as business budgets are tightened.

via eMarketer

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How’s that for casual motoring? Two dogs, no helmet, on a cellphone. Welcome to Sumatra, Indonesia. I saw another bike loaded with 3 dogs and 2 guys on the way to what I found out later was a weekly wild boar hunt. If you find yourself in Padang on a Wednesday, make your way over towards Painan for some good fun hunting boar.

• Newsflash: Men like porn
• All that glitters

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• Skype for Mac 6 months no update

• NesTable
• Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry Green Home

• She’s got skillz. Amazing bike riding
• Wow – amazing acrobats

Interesting. I had not noticed this before. Photobooth effects are available in Skype profile settings.

New Mac beta available for Skype (iPhone version has an update as well). Grab the desktop Skype update here.

• Skype for Mac 6 months no update
• Cool Skype widget for WordPress

photo by Musthafa, Anton

Under the agreement, Detroit Electric will use Proton’s underutilized assembly line. Detroit Electric’s motor, lithium polymer battery, the drive train and other components will be fitted in the bodies of two Proton models, Persona and Gen 2. They will be sold as Detroit Electric, without a specific brand name.

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Keep up the trend. Sorry Saudi Arabia..

• Sicko’s Arabia and Dubai is no better
• ZeroTruck

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OK, call me impressed. Thanks to Jan for linking me to Evernote, an app that let’s you snap photos, clip web pages and take notes across multiple platforms and have them all synced in the cloud. The coolest thing I see about it so far is the OCR that happens on their servers.

You can see I’ve searched twitter for Evernote buzz on my laptop then snapped a photo of my screen with the everphone iphone app. After a few moments the photo showed up on the Evernote desktop app and upon searching it all the text on the page is now indexed and searchable. Really cool.. I am liking this. There’s also safari and firefox addons for grabing web clips. Windows, Mac and mobile friendly.

• Publish to WordPress with ur iPhone
• Photobooth effects for Skype avatars