SoundPrism Takes iPad Music to a New Level is a post from Chris Pirillo

SoundPrism brings music to you in a way you’ve never seen before. Created by Audanika, this iPad app will mesmerize you for hours on end. It’s being touted as “an intuitive and fun way to express yourself, giving you a tool to create emotions with.” Any app that can figure out how I feel has to be seriously awesome, right?

The thing I love the most about SoundPrism is a small blurb on the creator’s about page: “We’re not entirely sure what SoundPrism is. We think it might be a musical instrument but we’re learning new stuff playing with it every day.” This app is so full-featured and well-coded that even the inventor is continually learning to do more with it each and every day.

The app was built specifically for the iPad and its multi-touch display. When you run it for the first time, you know that this little piece of code is a work of art. Trust me on this.

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Professional Viral Marketing Company

The explosive growth of social networking and book marking sites has created new space for viral marketing. In order to have a successful viral marketing campaign, you need the support of a professional viral marketing company. Today, there are many such viral marketing companies all over the world to meet the high demand for viral marketing services. They offer effective online advertising solutions for companies of all sizes.

Dedicated Viral Marketing Services

On the Internet, viral marketing is an efficient and most popular advertising tool for e-commerce marketers to spread their online marketing messages. Viral marketing specialists adopt ethical marketing techniques to deliver the best service. They offer a wide range of professional marketing services, which include:

• Strategic viral marketing consulting
• Campaign strategy and development
• Viral concept and design
• Content development or management
• Content seeding
• Analytics tracking and reporting
• Content syndication
• Social media marketing

Web Marketing Experts to Ensure Positive Results

A professional viral marketing company usually has a team of experienced marketing experts and other personnel to deliver the best service within the set budget and time. They develop an effective and successful viral marketing campaign as per the need and taste of clients to assist them in their marketing efforts. They implement various marketing techniques to gain more online and worldwide publicity.

Take Advantage of Viral Marketing to Bring in an Exponential Growth for Your Business

Viral marketing services can be beneficial in the following ways:

• Enhance your search engine visibility
• Boost your business
• Increase sales and profitability
• Drive potential customers
• Generate a good flow of traffic
• Earn credibility
• Capture qualified online leads
• Build brand recognition
• Increase quality inbound links

Find a Trusted Marketing Firm

While choosing, it is essential to choose a professional viral marketing company as they have the know-how, expertise and knowledge in distributing information quickly. Such companies can provide you with the expected results.

We all know Google Music is coming, it’s just a question of when – and what it’ll look like, of course. According to Reuters, Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010.

Citing unnamed ‘people familiar with the matter’, Reuters says Google’s VP of Engineering Andy Rubin (which we likened to a Steve Jobs-caliber product fanatic in the past) is spearheading talks with music labels on plans for a digital music download store and cloud-based song locker service, which he hopes will see the light of day before year’s end.

Only thing that could get in the way of a pre-Christmas debut: the company has yet to sign a single licensing deal with the music labels, those same sources told Reuters.
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What is the Best Twitter App? is a post from Chris Pirillo

I won’t bother to ask how many of you are on Twitter. The answer to that is usually a raised eyebrow and a “duhhhh” on your part. I will ask what client you are using, though. There are a lot of options out there, and I think I’ve tried them all. I’ve hated many of them, and enjoyed a few. However, I have to say that the best Twitter client I have ever used is the Twitter App – especially on the iPad. This app is simply stunning. That’s all there is to it.

“Twitter for iPad brings your Tweets together with web pages, photos, videos and more. Tap on any tweet, and a related content pane will open, displaying any linked content from the tweet, including web pages, profile information, hashtag searches and similar users. Slide panels from side to side and quickly navigate through related content.”

Look at the clarity in the photo above. Even with the lower quality due to resizing and being a photo (instead of the app itself), you can tell how great it looks. It packs a hell of a lot of features inside without feeling as though it’s trying to do too much – like what we’ve seen in other apps.

There are three important ways that Twitter for the iPad works as well as it does:

• Panes – Tapping on any tweet will open a new pane on the right. Depending on what’s in that tweet message, you’ll see a video or photo, a news story or another tweet. You can still tap on tweets, open new panes and read more content for as long as you wish. It’s simple to move between panes by swiping right or left.
• Media – Whenever you tap on a video link (or open a web page that has a video embedded on it), you can play it inline. Sometimes, video can take forever to load. The panes let you look through your timeline while the video loads. This keeps you from getting impatient with load times and just giving up. Swipe back to the video whenever it’s ready to play. Also, you can simply pinch a video to play it full-screen!
• Gestures – Pinch a tweet to view details about the person who wrote it and to reply or retweet it. Put two fingers together and pull down on the tweet to check out replies to it. This shows you the entire conversation leading up to that tweet.

Did you catch that last sentence? Here, let me make it easier for you by showing it to you again: This shows you the ENTIRE CONVERSATION leading up to that tweet. It’s about time there was an easy way to do this! How many times have you read something on Twitter and thought “WTF is that about?!” Sometimes, we can’t make sense of half the shit people say on Twitter without clicking through twenty times to get to the original message.

No, this isn’t the only client or app that can do this. However, it IS the best one, in my mind. I challenge you to show me something better.

What client do YOU use? Why do you prefer it over others that are available?

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Five Benefits of MLM Marketing Plan

When selecting an MLM marketing plan, it is best to find a system that has your best interests at heart. The MLM marketing plan should provide you with training and support, market materials and a proven track record. The “Millionaire Blueprint System” has all of these and more. Here are five ways that the average guy can benefit from a proven MLM marketing plan.

1. Websites – With the “Millionaire Blueprint System” you are furnished with your own personalized versions of the same websites that the leading MLM marketing professional is using. This feature is a time and money saver for the average guy. Having to create your own website from scratch can be difficult, costly and time consuming. Your time and money are too valuable to waste. Let the experts help you and benefit from an MLM marketing plan.

2. Marketing Materials – Marketing materials are vital to any business, online or offline. When you take advantage of an MLM marketing plan that provides proven marketing materials, your business is set to succeed. You get full use/reprint rights to copyrighted ads, postcards, sales letters, order forms and many other marketing tools that sell the products for you. Proven marketing materials mean better, more qualified leads to help you generate unlimited profits.

3. Training and Support – One hour phone and webinar training sessions. You will be given top shelf information into the world of the “Millionaire Blueprint System” and MLM marketing from the top experts in the company. Where else would you want to get your information? The top experts have a tried and true system to share with you to help you build your online business and leverage the MLM marketing plan.

4. Added Income – Added income can allow you to save for retirement, vacation, college, new furniture or just a rainy day.  Using the proven MLM marketing plan you could be cashing weekly checks in the amounts of ,000, ,000, ,000 and more. Let’s face it, added income can bring greater opportunities and allow you to live a better lifestyle.

5. Decrease in Overhead – Some home based businesses fail because you are required to have an inventory. Holding inventory costs money upfront. You must also be sure to rotate the inventory to assure quality and take yearly inventory counts to give to your accountant to figure into your tax liability.  Carrying inventory can cost you time and money. Because of the proven methods of the “Millionaire Blueprint System” and MLM marketing plan, overhead costs are kept to a minimum; putting more money in your pocket.

Customized websites, access to proven marketing materials to sell the products for you, training and support to guide you as you build your business, added income to enjoy the good things in life and decreased overhead vs. other home based businesses are all ways to benefit from an MLM marketing plan.

Yesterday, news broke about a new feature Facebook is testing out called “Subscribe.” For a second, I thought it might be the equivalent of Twitter’s “follow” ability — that is, a feature which would let you follow the updates of someone that you’re not technically “friends” with on Facebook. Sadly, that’s not the case. Instead, this is simply a way for you to more closely follow someone you are already friends with (or fan pages), by getting alerts when they update. But that doesn’t mean Facebook isn’t working on the follow idea. In fact, last year, they definitely were.

Twitter had a secret project last year that involved testing how best to implement a Twitter-like follow feature on Facebook, multiple sources have confirmed to us. The name of the project? Project Dance Party.
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Why Should You Buy an iPod shuffle? is a post from Chris Pirillo

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Why the hell are people still buying iPod shuffles, anyway? If anything, the new iPod Nano should replace all use cases for an iPod Shuffle – minus price, which is relatively negligible. I’m not kidding when I ask why anyone is using them, folks. Take a good look at all of the new iPod models, and tell me WHY someone would feel the need to buy this particular device.

Sure, they’re only about fifty bucks. And yes, they come in several cute colors. Whoa… you can even put a couple of songs on one of these babies and clip it to your belt. Oh, wait! You can get it engraved! Perhaps I was a bit hasty in my judgment.

Nah.

In the age of the touch screen, who would want click controls? The only function I can find on the official Apple Store page beyond playing music is having an annoying pre-recorded voice announce the title or artist of the song you’re listening to… in any of 25 languages.

If you’re going to spend money for a music player, save some extra pennies and choose the nano instead.

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Affiliate Internet Marketing-Your Ultimate Guide

There is one type of marketing that is getting to be popular among people especially those who want to earn profitably at home.  Affiliate internet marketing is seen by many as a profitable home based business where one earns his income from promoting products and services by others. 

Majority of the companies today uses the internet to reach their target market.  They recognize the power of the internet as millions and millions of people turn to the internet for virtually everything.  Companies see the internet as an avenue to effectively promote their products that will have the widest reach at a lesser cost, with affiliate internet marketing as one of the more valuable means to do it.

What You Can Get From Affiliate Internet Marketing

There are several advantages and benefits one can get from affiliate internet marketing.  It is an inexpensive means to promote, advertise, and market products and services and a percentage of savings that can be derived from the lesser cost are usually passed on by the companies to the affiliates in the form of higher commissions. 

Affiliate internet marketing is a great source of home based income.  There are several successful affiliate marketers who have left their day time job and concentrated on internet marketing that have been earning for them more than what they earn from their usual job.  Best part of it all is that they never have to leave home to earn that much.

These are just two of the many benefits and advantages of affiliate internet marketing, if you search the internet, you will find countless more.

How to Achieve Success in Affiliate Internet Marketing

Your success in affiliate internet marketing is dependent on several factors.  Naturally, you need to devote your time and effort to succeed in this business and the way you regard affiliate internet marketing can spell the difference between success and failure.

Here are some steps to succeed:

•    Be careful to choose the right affiliate internet marketing program and products.  You must learn how to discern legitimate programs from scams.  Choosing the right products is key to earn more from affiliate internet marketing. 

•    Set your target goals and your plan of action to achieve your goals.  Your plan is your roadmap to success and may include marketing strategies and tools.  You can find several resources online.

•    You need to see affiliate internet marketing as a long-time commitment and therefore it is important to find and establish your niche.  It will help to be diligent in doing your research to ensure that your chosen niche is something that you really like and can sustain for a long time.

•    Build your own website where you can promote and market the affiliate products and services.  Although you can readily use the website of your chosen affiliate marketing program, it is way better to have your own website where you have full control of how you are going to market, promote, and advertise the products and services. 

These are the important steps in gist.  It is highly recommended that you explore the internet for all the useful resources that you can get to become successful in affiliate internet marketing.  The time and the effort that you will initially put in this business can pay handsomely for you  in the future.

It’s hard to remember a product I’ve become so dependent on quicker than Gmail’s new Priority Inbox. I’m so addicted, that the few times I’ve accidentally clicked on the old “regular” Inbox view in the past week have really annoyed me. So much so that I actually moved that view into my “more” drop down (you can drag any sidebar item in there). And now I have good news: you can all share in this addiction.

While it began rolling out to users on Monday, Google is now saying that Priority Inbox should be available to all users (including Google Apps users) today. Look for the “New! Priority Inbox” message in red in the top right corner of your Gmail account to activate it. There’s a slight learning curve with it, so you’ll still probably want to watch Google’s official video. But once you get started, it’s unlikely that you’ll go back.
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YCombinator-funded Cloudant, a database platform built around Apache’s open source CouchDB framework, officially launches after three years of hard work.

Cloud-based like Cloudera and Amazon Web Services and part of the NoSQL movement, Cloudant scales your database on the CloudDB framework but also provides hosting, administrative tools, analytics and support so “You don’t have to think a lot up front about what your database is going to look like.”

Going up against Goliaths like Oracle, Cloudant focuses on scalability, flexibilty, and high availability. Its method of data storage is ideal in any situation in which data is generated in a distributed way, such as with sensor networks, web servers, and mobile device services, in essence “small companies with big data.”
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