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How to Remember People’s Names (and Deal with Unusual Names) [Mind Hacks]

Accurately remembering names is one of the simplest yet most important components of interacting with people, no matter in what capacity. This article presents some tips I've acquired over the years with regards to remembering and using people's names. More
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3 Winning Alternatives to Online Sweepstakes

Meaghan Edelstein has gained national media attention through her blog, I Kicked Cancer’s Ass , which she started to document her battle with end stage cancer. She is an attorney, the founder of the non-profit organization Spirit Jump , and works for the Real Time Marketing Group . For some time now, companies have been utilizing online promotions as a means to increase brand excitement and build a strong following. While there are many different types of promotions, sweepstakes appear to be more and more popular
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Top 5 Tips for Aspiring Music Bloggers

So you wanna be a music blogger? Congrats! As any struggling artist can tell you, putting your finger on your passion can take a while. You, however, are halfway there. Well, before you venture past the halfway point, might I ask how you feel when faced with the following sentiment: “Give up now .
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How to Rebuild Your Attention Span and Focus [Focus]

Most people who click on this article won't finish reading it. So says Nick Carr . The New York Times will remind you that you'll probably forget it in a few minutes . This idea's so prevalent, even the Onion has started taking jabs. More
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Top 20 Sites to Improve Your Twitter Experience

“140-character status updates to a network of followers.” That makes Twitter sound simple. But in fact, the social information platform has grown to be much more complex than its 140 character-limit suggests. The site not only connects people, but has also become an intricate information resource for everything from news to shopping deals. Yet in many ways, the site’s actual functionality hasn’t exactly kept up with user interactions
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5 Ways Social Media Helps Promote Good Health

Alexander B. Howard ( @digiphile ) is the Government 2.0 Washington Correspondent for O’Reilly Media, where he reports on technology, open government and online civics. He will share open source technology news at the OSCON convention in Portland, Oregon, on July 19-23.
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HOW TO: Optimize Your Site for Search Engine Marketing

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. For millions of websites, publishers, and online businesses, search is still the king. While social media may have the media’s attention and Twitter and Facebook are garnering a lot of the hype, search still trumps them when it comes to driving traffic and being discovered by potential new customers. Because of the importance of search traffic to online business, there is an entire industry dedicated to improving websites’ visibility in search engine results: Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
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Feature: Getting to know Safari 5′s Extensions

Safari 5 includes a new secure browser extension system that is similar in many respects to Chrome's extensions and Firefox's Jetpack plugin. Extensions are created completely in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, and Apple takes great pains to differentiate extensions from plug-ins. Safari plug-ins—written in native code—are solely for supporting new media types within the browser (Flash, Quicktime, et cetera) whereas extensions are for adding new functionality to the browser itself.
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Sizing up the iPhone 4 for shutterbugs

The original iPhone launched with a fixed-focus lens and a paltry (even for 2007) 2 megapixel sensor. The camera didn't get any improvements with the iPhone 3G, but gained another million pixels, autofocus, and a "tap-to-focus" system—which links the focus control and autoexposure system to a specific point in the image—with the iPhone 3GS. It also gained the ability to shoot video, though it was limited to VGA resolution. Despite the improvements, many critics remained unimpressed with these updates
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A closer look shows Apple’s A4 is "tailored," not "bespoke"

Analysis of Apple's A4 didn't stop in the month after the iPad's launch—a number of groups have continued to poke, prod, and photograph Apple's chip, looking for insight into a question that will be familiar to longtime Apple watchers who remember the 68K and PowerPC eras. That question is this: what, exactly, is Apple's processor strategy? In the current mobile space, just as in the desktop PC space of the pre-Intel era, that larger question of strategy implies a host of smaller questions, like just how much influence do Apple's in-house hardware teams exert over the designs, and where is that influence manifested? What is Apple's long-term plan for playing in the hardware market, and does the company really expect to pit its boutique, Apple-specific designs against the wider commodity market and win?
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