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In our divided attention-span, interrupt driven lives, it’s sometimes tough enough to remember where we put our car keys, much less a phone number or a URL. Zoove is now rolling out a clever way to fit promotion details into our brains’ short-term buffers. Their StarStar Codes make it as easy as remembering **YourName.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

A really interesting game idea (that I once hoped to make) flew across my desk this week and I thought I’d write it up for our readers.  The game is called That’s So Query and it uses Google Suggest to create a game where players attempt to complete Google searches and find the most popular [...]

Soon you’ll be able to guess the prices of toasters and spin the Big Wheel from the privacy of your own social network as The Price Is Right game has been given a launch date of June 14, 2010.  The game will feature weekly tournaments and prizing and will include all the famous Price Is [...]

Dutch-based social networking site Hyves, which has a majority share of users in Holland, has announced plans to transform its site into a game portal in partnership with game developer Spil games. The news was reported by the Dutch Daily News, and while details are slim, this represents another social network turning to games to [...]

A couple of days ago, Kevin Rose took the CEO post at Digg and shortly after assuming the post Kevin’s first order of battle was to get rid of the controversial Digg toolbar aka DiggBar. Kevin announced it via the Digg blog:

Framing content with an iFrame is bad for the Internet. It causes confusion when bookmarking, breaks w/iFrame busters, and has no ability to communicate with the lower frame (if you browse away from a story, the old digg count still persists). It’s an inconsistent/wonky user experience, and I’m happy to say we are killing it when we launch the new Digg (sign up for the beta here).

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I hope you liked our list of Twitter apps for the iPad. Just like Twitter, social networking apps are probably going to be the most sought after applications for the iPad. So, I scour the social networking category of the iPad App Store to search for the newest apps available that were made specifically for the iPad and found seven of them.
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I’m not commenting on whether or not the iPad will live up to the hype, it might end up being the greatest invention since the indoor toilet. I am merely sharing my opinion on why I am shutting the gadget out of my life. Your thoughts are welcome in the comments section below.
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With just barely a day left before the iPad starts arriving on some 100,00+ thousands users who pre-ordered it for the last two weeks, Apple has gone ahead and switched on the iPad App Store. As of today, there are already around 2300+ applications both free and iPad waiting to be downloaded from the iPad App Store.

Here we give you eight of the Twitter-related iPad app available now at the iPad App Store.

TwitePad (Price: $0.99)

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We all have our morning routines. Some people pour a cup of coffee before their day begins. Others stretch and jump into the shower. Me…well I turn on my computer and head to Woot. You might think that’s a nerd routine, but I have good company. Over four million people join me each month, hoping to snag the “deal of the day” before it sells out.

For April Fools’ Day, Woot has temporarily re-branded itself as “Woot Your Own Adventure.” Rather than selling a single item, there are a series of multiple choices to select from. Depending on which you select, you will navigate along a path of products. You could uncover an LCD TV, MP3 player, remote control cars, Barbie products and more. It reminds me of those Which-Way books I read as a kid. Read more

Flickr just reported that they are launching HTML5 video playback for all videos they store. Officially iPad arrives on Saturday and, as it doesn’t support Flash, playing videos will be a huge issue. Flickr was using Flash for displaying videos as well, but they have worked to solve this problem and with HTML5 video, you will be able to enjoy all Flickr content without any problems.

They claim that visitors using iPad will be automatically switched to HTML5 player when stumbling on a video. Visitors will be able to enjoy HD content as well.

Apple says iPad will provide ultimate browsing experience and Flash powered content is huge part of the Internet today. Without having Flash support Apple cuts off great deal of content out there. Mayor players like YouTube and now Flickr have found solution for their video content, no doubt that other sites will be forced to adopt as well.