Since my last blog, the iPad has hit the market… no I haven’t gotten one yet, but as soon as I have the extra $520 I will absolutely be an owner. But that’s not what I’m going to blog about today.

If you’re a geo-tagger, all the rage is FourSquare and GoWalla. But if you’re like me you probably are on both… just like we were on both MySpace and Facebook. We’ll, now that MySpace is dead, it’s a good think I went with Facebook. That same thing could happen here. FourSquare is the preferred app, however out of nowhere GoWalla could take over!

How do you prepare for this? Easy. http://check.in – it’s a mobile browser app (so you don’t have to buy it) that will use your existing accounts to check you in all-in-one! How awesome is that. It’s like Ping.fm for geo-tagging.

Right now it’s only available through invitation only – and via invitations that I have no control over. But I suggest jumping on this one ASAP, it will clearly save you time.

Anyhow, one of their graphic designers mentioned that “as soon as things slow down here I would love to look into that”. “Slow down” what ever was he talking about??? As I flip through today’s updates on Mashable, I find myself not so surprised to see an article about their new look that is coming to the iPhone. It all makes sense now.

The new look is pretty exciting as this company is growing and growing. I’m very much interested to see how things continue – especially now that they seemed to really be interested in what I’m doing with them here in Pittsburgh.

You can check out that article with many pictures here:

http://mashable.com/2010/03/05/foursquare-1-6-iphone/

Back in June 2009, Nielsen estimated that the average U.S. user spent four hours and 39 minutes on Facebook per month. That’s about 9.3 minutes per day in a 30-day month. In August, that number rose to five hours and 46 minutes, or 11.5 minutes per day.In January 2010, though, the amount of time the average person spent on Facebook jumped to more than seven hours. Each American Facebook user spent an average of 421 minutes on Facebook per month, which amounts to more than 14 minutes per day. Even if you lump together the time spent on Google (1:23), Yahoo (2:09), YouTube (1:02), Microsoft/Bing (1:35) Wikipedia (0:15), and Amazon (0:22), it still doesn’t beat Facebook.

Truth is, I’m typing this, but I’m on Facebook too.  I’m on it all day long.  Granted, the study shows that only about 14 minutes a day is normal, but I’m sure people like me are skewing that number.  I have 3 computers in front of me at almost all times, so it’s very easy for me to have one computer dedicated to my Pandora, iChat and Facebook, while I work on the other one.  And with the “tab” feature in modern web browsers, you can have your Facebook open in the background and continue to chat with friends all day long.

It’s quite clear that we live in a more and more connected society than we ever have before – and for those of us that have embraced it (at running speeds) we probably couldn’t imagine it any other way.  Really… what did I do with my time 5 years ago?  I can’t remember, I know I wasn’t on anything like MySpace or Facebook, and I surely wasn’t blogging… hmmm.  Oh yeah, I went to a lot of movies.

So, tell me, readers, how many hours a day would you say you’re on Facebook?  Please leave a comment and let’s compare…

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So, today’s social media news leads us to a couple things that I have found interesting, first of all, Windows 8 talk and secondly, a new product from my favorite company, Google – Google Buzz.

It doesn’t seem like Windows 7 – the twin sister to the retarded Windows Vista – has even been around for all that long and already talk of Windows 8… that seems a bit shady.  Quite honestly, I’ve been hoping that Windows would just throw in the towel already, they could shut down all operations and start selling slap bracelets.  But, I guess that’s why I’m not on their board. The news spreading is that they’ve a whole new look, vision and feel… well, I should hope so.  Considering the only good operating systems they’ve ever created were Windows 3.1, Windows 98 and Windows XP (and saying that might be a stretch), it’s definitely time to start putting users in mind and stop worrying about the safety padding the operating system for all the computer illiterate.  Cause let’s be honest, it’s not Windows’ fault that people are stupid and fall for these ridiculous phishing scams!  We need to move on.  I do have 2 Windows machines in my home office of 13 computers, don’t force me to install yet another Hackintosh system and get rid of Microsoft completely.

On to the brighter news… Google’s buzz of launching a new product to integrate more social media and several of it’s services has just launched across the web, and quite heavily on Mashable.com, ironically called Google Buzz.  I’ve still got to play with this new product, but it seems that it’s an expansion to it’s RSS Reader service that will allow people to actively follow information around the web – not exactly revolutionary, but now with the Google logo we’re all so used to seeing. More on this in future blogs, I’m sure.

Now, lastly, my rant about President Obama.  No, this isn’t against him, but for him.  I can’t believe that people have the audacity, “and that means nerve”, to blame Obama for the current decline in jobs across the US.  Seriously??? I’m quite certain the this started before he was President.  I mean, not that I’m politically in tune, but let’s be honest here… that’s like, if your car was rolling down a hill cause you left it in neutral and you yelled to the guy 2o ft away, “Hey can you help me stop my car from rolling down the hill and crashing into that wall?!” and as he uses all his strength to push it back up the hill, the force was too great and it inevitably continues on it’s path to destruction… then you blame that guy for not being strong enough.  TYPICAL AMERICAN ATTITUDE

Look there are only going to be a few things that can bring our economy back…

1) realize that we were living in fantasy land, families that make $60,000/yr cannot afford a $3000/mo mortgage, 2 $500/mo car payments, top-shelf cable TV, unlimited cell phone family plans and the ability to eat out 2-3 times a week at the Outback… it just doesn’t add up.  You can’t afford it, it’s time to start living within your means.

2) spend money – no, don’t buy an expensive car only to drive it to work and back because you don’t have enough money to go out and enjoy life – get an economy car, then go to the movies, get dinners at family restaurants, buy DVDs, get a new computer, buy music, take a dancing class, go to the gym… do things that lead to an active lifestyle and support others working.

3) don’t be bummed about losing your job and blame the world, blame yourself for not being indispensable. If you think you have a talent, start your own business, there are many advantages to working for yourself (like tax breaks and write-offs).  Suck it up and take that job a McDonalds… if nothing else you gain character and maybe it will lead to something else.  America/Americans are facing tough times, many of our jobs are being outsourced across the globe to places that all they need is a telephone or a computer and the ability to speak English (as poorly as it may seem at times), bottom line is, we are living in the land of opportunity in the middle of the information age, we have to start using our brains, being more innovative and creative.  Remember, you could always be living in Baja Mexico in a box on a hill-side, granted you might have a great view of the ocean, but you won’t have any food to eat.  Suck it up, even at the worst of times, you can get a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger for a $1.

We’ll that’s it for now.  Hefty post, I know… they won’t all be like this.

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