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Social Media and Grassroots Marketing Director in Santa Monica, CA. Founder of LAsnark.com.
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A lethal marketing virus has turned half the world’s population into brain eating zombies. Now they are after your brains!
Tweet Defense is a pick up and play Tower Defense mobile game featuring several unique defense towers and waves of zombies with some big surprises up their tattered sleeves. Ten fantastic game maps on the iPhone deliveryou limitless fun and endless opportunities to test your skill and try new tactics to win.
In addition to being a fun tower defense game, Tweet Defense is the first iPhone game to use your Twitter activities as part of your game stats. The more you tweet, the better your chances of becoming the top defender on the leader board. By simply logging into your Twitter page your statistics will boost your tower’s capabilities giving you a chance to become the Tweet Defense champion of the world.
Gamasutra - News - Pocket God Becomes First iPhone App To Sell Over 2M Units
Bolt Creative has announced its popular and frequently updated iPhone game Pocket God has sold more than two million units since its launch on January 9th, 2009. Pocket God is the first paid application in the App Store to reach the sales milestone, according to Bolt.Introduced as a casual-oriented entertainment title with limited player interaction, Pocket God has seen 29 gameplay-expanding “episodes” released over its lifetime.
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Sundance Film Festival Ramps Up Social Media, Adds iPhone App for 2010 - Speakeasy - WSJ
This year, to help attendees keep their fest to-do lists in order (and save them the trouble of lugging around printed schedules), the 2010 Sundance Film Festival is debuting their first official iPhone app. Designed by Vancouver-based mobile marketing company QuickMobile, who pulled it together with the assistance of a grant from Telefilm Canada, the application offers users a comprehensive list of screening schedules and events, as well as maps, updated press articles and Twitter and Facebook links.
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Caesars Palace launching iPhone, check-in apps - San Jose Mercury News
LAS VEGAS—Casino officials at Caesars Palace say they are launching a new iPhone app and allowing guests to check into the Las Vegas Strip resort through text messaging.Casino operator Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. says the new application and check-in system debut this month.
The iPhone app includes a customizable electronic postcard, resort information and the hotel’s Twitter feed.
The check-in system is for guests who book online at the Caesars Palace Web site. Casino officials say guests will receive a text message the day before they arrive with their confirmation number. Those who reply “check in” get to skip lines the next day and receive their key after presenting identification.
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Nexus One vs iPhone, Droid & Palm Pre - Total Cost of Ownership
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Everything You Wanted to Know About the Google Nexus One | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
The Nexus One was designed by HTC, which has a close relationship with Google. HTC created the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, and has released at least five Android handsets since the operating system launched in October 2008.
Though packed in a big, white box with the Google logo printed prominently, the Nexus One clearly shows the stamp of HTC’s design sensibilities. Photos show a device similar to the HTC Droid Eris phone with its trackball and four buttons at the bottom of the phone.
The Nexus One has a 1-GHz Snapdragon CPU, a 3.7-inch 480 x 800 display, 512 MB of of RAM and an expandable 4-GB microSD card, says Engadget. The 1-GHz processor alone should make the Nexus one of the fastest smartphones available currently.
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New Media - The Interactive Entrepreneur - NYTimes.com
THE announcement last year that Birmingham City University in central England would offer a master’s in social networking attracted international coverage — and comment, appropriately on Twitter and Mashable, on the nature of Facebook and My-Space as academic discipline.
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LinkedIn Wants Users to Connect More - WSJ.com
If LinkedIn Corp. wants to avoid being swamped by social-networking giant Facebook Inc., it will have to convince users like Jackie Nejaime to log in more often they do now.
Ms. Nejaime, a San Francisco real-estate agent, uses LinkedIn to stay in touch with her 183-person network, check out job prospects and see if someone might be interested in one of the homes she’s selling. But she typically logs in only a few times a month because she says the site lacks features.
“I would like to get more use out of it,” said Ms. Nejaime “I just don’t know how.” By contrast, the 47-year-old says she uses Facebook every day to touch base with friends and professional contacts.
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I rarely visit LinkedIn anymore. I really only find myself visiting the site when I have a friend that is job hunting and looking for connections. I see a number of interesting discussions happening there, but I haven’t joined in.
