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What Do Your Favorite Websites Say About Your Politics?

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, I love infographics. Does this ring true with your social activity and political view?

With this information I wonder if there will be a change in the way both parties campaign - who/where they campaign. 

Over the past few months, we’ve crunched countless “Likes” from thousands of users of Trendsetter, our first-of-its-kind platform that ties together polling, social influence data, and consumer preferences. We’ve used it to map the politics of the social web, analyzing the political partisanship of the user bases of various social properties. Using predictive modeling of Facebook likes, we tied political preferences and engagement to one’s choice of social media, and this bubble graph is the result:

App Developers Who Are Too Young to Drive

If only I was as awesome as some of the kids these days. 

BY JESSICA E. VASCELLARO

Paul Dunahoo went on a business trip to San Francisco last week, where he attended technical sessions at Apple Inc.’s developer conference, networked with other programmers and received feedback from Apple engineers on his six productivity apps.

Then, Mr. Dunahoo, chief executive of Bread and Butter Software LLC, returned to Connecticut to get ready for the eighth grade.

“It’s a very rare opportunity” to be at Apple’s conference, said Mr. Dunahoo, who is 13 years old and wears red braces.

Mr. Dunahoo is one of a growing number of teens joining the app-making frenzy. Apple, the app industry’s ringleader…

(you can continue reading if you subscribe to The Wall Street Journal, unfortunately, I do not.)

thenextweb: By clicking ‘Smile’ in the iOS app, users can upload images to Instagram or Twitter accompanied by the hashtag #smilesfilm. The app’s Dream feature then uses geo-positional tags so pins appear on a white world map showing where others are taking their smiley snaps. (via Yoko Ono Launches #smilefilm App to Capture 7bn Smiles)
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thenextweb:

By clicking ‘Smile’ in the iOS app, users can upload images to Instagram or Twitter accompanied by the hashtag #smilesfilm. The app’s Dream feature then uses geo-positional tags so pins appear on a white world map showing where others are taking their smiley snaps. (via Yoko Ono Launches #smilefilm App to Capture 7bn Smiles)

Oh, the South East, the less tech savvy.

I’ve recently moved back to Florida. I packed up my tiny one bedroom apartment in San Francisco that was beautifulyl located across the street from Golden Gate Park and several blocks away from the oceanGGP

to a house with a back yard that’s located on a golf course with a beach that’s not too far away. There is a lot to miss and gain from my move - a beautiful cool climate to hot intense humidity, a glorious landscape with chilling water to a flat sunny beach with a body of water I can actually swim in, cold dry pale skin to finally being able to tan again - it’s the little things, people. 

I love San Francisco and I miss it dearly, however, there are plenty of things I love back on the East coast/the South (yes, it IS the “South” down here, I’m not in Miami, folks), but there is one major flaw to my new location technology is about five year behind San Francisco!! sad face

 Ahhhh, the horror!

Let me clarify, it’s not like everyone is talking on giant razor cellphones or using big white block desktops (although, the Apple to Dell ratios is definitely more Dell than it would be in SF), people are still getting their social networking on - Facebooking and Tweeting (way more likely to Facebook and not really grasp the concept of Twitter, but they are trying), but the thing that I can’t stand, there is no love for Yelp, Urbanspoon, or even Foursquare (used other than just tagging themselves places). What I am missing is user reviews! We have access to all of this glorious information and an outlet for our opinions - USE IT! There is so much outside of updating your status on Facebook. Help me out on Yelp and review some of the places you like or dislike.

Maybe it is me, I got so used to being able to find hundreds of reviews on where ever I may have gone in San Francisco. It saved me from eating at scary places or helped me find the best hair stylist. 

I guess, I’ll just have to figure all that on my own or the old fashion way - word of mouth. Crap, how do you strike up a conversation with a stranger that’s NOT on the interwebs?? Man, this is going to get reeeaaal awkward. awkwardJust review things and save yourselves from someone like me! 

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