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Adolfo and Greg talk about the Minecraft, Just the Facts, 10xERs and more   Sponsor/Partners/Events: Check out our new Patreon page at patreon.com/nerdstalker PayPal donations to https://paypal.me/foronda Stories of the week Minecraft Dungeons is the low-stress family hackathon we need right now https://buff.ly/3guyK9i Twitter's Fact-Checking Failures Reveal Serious Shortcomings https://buff.ly/2XaLKJv Apple reportedly nabs Scorsese film starring DiCaprio and De Niro https://buff.ly/3dhw0u8 How Can You Become a 10xer? https://buff.ly/2Wy9TJI “Speed” Round : Funerals in space https://buff.ly/2XHcAs1 "Roquefort-Like Cheese?" USTR takes swipe at EU food name restrictions https://buff.ly/2WY89tv What to Do If You See a 'COVID-19 Surcharge' on Your Receipt https://buff.ly/3etGyGB Japan is going to covering half of your travel expenses. https://is.gd/28UlFV Tips of the Week: Color in your favor...

We Believe In Tech, Startups, Design & You The Nerd Stalker Weekend Update A weekly summary from our picks in tech, startups, design. Oculus quietly drops DRM from its # VR systems Bad Drivers Are About to Be Outed by a Dashcam App First Electric Road in Sweden Inaugurated Twitter now supports 140-second videos UX Maturity: Establishment — Prototyping: From # UX to Front End Rabobank Announces FoodBytes! San Francisco Award Winners # UX Lessons In Game Design When Bad # UI Design Kills: Is Poor Shift Lever Design to Blame for Death of Star Trek Actor?"

Adolfo and Greg Discus Their Top Tech Picks of the Week Adolfo Foronda and Greg Viloria discuss the weekly tech news in their mind's eye. Check it out!

GOP debates anyone? Our friends at Infegy , the social intelligence company, just announced that they will be showing in real time how the twitter discussion is flying around each candidate.  was generated in real-time using  Infegy Linguistics'  streaming text analytics API and Twitter's low latency  Firehose  data stream.  The dashboard shown above can also show twitter sentiment about each candidate in a dashboard - Favorability, Gender and Political issues. Join in at  http://debate.infegy.com/  for the twitter debates. Update: Looks like the twitterverse spoke - 1. Trump 2. Fiorina 3. Bush. The data is frozen, view it at  http://debate.infegy.com/

In this episode, Sean Charles (aka ＠SocialMediaSean) and Greg Viloria (aka @SocialGreg) talk about the social network news and events of the week. And here’s what they discussed:

Nerd Stalker Picks of the Week: The Wolf http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-wolf/ Twitpic Folds After Twitter Threat bit.ly/1pPOXsn (Britt Clark / Socialtimes) Holy Cow: Marc Newson Joining Apple's Design Team! - Core77 http://bit.ly/1lKIg9J My Year with a Distraction-Free iPhone (and How to Start Your Own Experiment) bit.ly/1lvrCuC pic.twitter.com/Zu7bfDTHhM (Jake Knapp / Medium) K480 Keyboard – Multi-Device – Logitech http://bit.ly/1lKIRse Can Printed Electronics Be the Silver Bullet for the Printing Industry? via @nerdstalker http://bit.ly/1ubVduB Speed Round: RunSwift - http://www.runswiftlang.com There Are Now at Least 25 Billion-Dollar Mobile Internet Companies bit.ly/1pzdZ90 pic.twitter.com/xX8gA3lkjX ( John Koetsier, V enture Beat) Rdio announces Version 3 http://is.gd/hBXx7y Intel’s Broadwell chip is getting ready to power next-generation Chromebooks via @gigaom http://bit.ly/1thwP8c (Keven Toefl / GigaOM) Dyson 360 Eye https://www...

Well, Sean and Greg are at it again. After a long hiatus, Social Time TV is back again. In this episode, Sean Charles (aka SocialMediaSean) and Greg Viloria (aka SocialGreg) talk about the big four Social Networks: Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn, give some of the latest insight into each one and who they pick as the throne holder. Give it a view or a listen!

Our social guys Greg Viloria ( @SocialGreg ) and Sean Charles ( @SocialMediaSean ) give the weekly updates from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest. In this episode, they talk about Twitter's API battle with Kred, FBs lighten's the Zynga Anchor, LinkedIn wants to tell you what skills your need and more.  Links to the Backstories of Social Time Social Speed Round Pinterest to Amazon: no pinning for you on Black Friday Facebook Moving Away From Voting Scheme  / Facebook Is About To Send One Billion Emails Global Pages Launch on Facebook – Should Brands Make the Switch? Twitter Is Giving $100 In Free Advertising To 10,000 Small Businesses Pinterest pins hopes for broader appeal on holiday marketing push - "30 Days of Pinspiration"  Twitter rolled out new image search functionality, competition w/Instagram intensifies The Social Time TV Main Stories Twitter Kred creator PeopleBrowsr fires back at ...

Our social guys Greg Viloria ( @SocialGreg ) and Sean Charles ( @SocialMediaSean ) give the weekly updates from Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Pinterest. In this episode, they talk about Twitter's PW reset issues and Interactive Photos, FB's nested comments, Google + Hangouts with your favorite athletes and more. 

We interview founders, Alceo Marti and Miro Leko from a startup from Croatia called Gluu.me . Did you say Croatia? Yes, Croatia. Like most entrepreneurs, Alceo and Miro are just trying to solve a problem. According to a survey conducted by Concept Metrics in May of this year, people belong to an average of 1.8 social networks.  Gluu.me takes the "Fifedom" nature of the big social networks and tries to fuse them together to get a more richer experience for the social network users. Alceo and Miro also discuss the Croatian infrastructure that supports startups like theirs.

In the next episode of Social Time, our social guys Greg Viloria (@SocialGreg) and Sean Charles (@SocialMediaSean) take on the Social Photo Giants. In this episode, they compare the social photo giants - Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. What's your favorite?

We were honored to interview, Mark W Schaefer , author of the best selling Twitter book, "The Tao of Twitter". His book is not only a primer on how to use Twitter but his "zen" philosophy on how to turn it into a real business connection powerhouse. In this interview, Mark was a real quote machine.

Exciting times at Nerd Stalker. We just added another podcast extending our reach to Social Media. Our Nerd Stalker staff writer, Greg Viloria, aka @SocialGreg, and Sean Charles, aka @SocialMediaSean, are hosts to our new weekly podcast - Social Time. They will be doing their podcast/vidcast via a Google+ hangout.

Download MP3 Our Top Stories A: Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World http://is.gd/JVMXGo  (:11) G:Thousands could lose internet access July 9 due to virus bit.ly/PdhjLg  (3:59) A: That was Quick. Facebook Shuts Down Face.com APIs http://tnw.co/PvCw3f  (6:21) G: Facebook e-mail mess: Address books altered; e-mail lost bit.ly/LoS9mW   (9:08) A: Facebook to Launch Job Postings Board--Sources http://is.gd/1nPlRO  (13:44) G: Apple pays $60-million to settle China iPad trademark dispute bit.ly/N7clbJ  (16:17) Speed Round: What the Twitterverse is Talking About and What Our Community Wants to Hear  A: Def Leppard re-record own songs to win back digital download revenue http://vrge.co/Rv6odm  (21:03) G: Facebook Testing “Want” Button? bit.ly/LtWOEl  (22:22) A: Chris Rieger's Levitating, Wirelessly-Powered LED Light - Core77 http://bit.ly/RzVRNZ  (23:22) G: LinkedIn Says Twitter Posts No Longer ...

Download MP3 Adolfo Foronda (@nerdstalker) and Greg Viloria (@SocialGreg) Weekly Picks for the Nerd Stalker Techweek Podcast: Apple to ditch Google Maps in iOS 6, use in-house mapping solution http://is.gd/kBOztW (00:37) Where To Now For Yahoo? Thompson Out, Loeb & Co In ; Yahoo CEO blames search firm for error bit.ly/JIQQ10 via @ SFBusinessTi ; Yahoo CEO apologizes -- for being a distraction | @ scoopit via @ DocDoCc bit.ly/IzO0LH / Yahoo CEO blames search firm for error bit.ly/JIQQ10 via @ SFBusinessTimes (3:40) Americans Now Spend More Time On Facebook Mobile Than Its Website http://is.gd/UFC1Qx (8:06) The Password Protection Act of 2012: Latest Attempt To Protect Facebook Users bit.ly/JmJLEu @ allfacebook (12:15) Mozilla and Google accuse Microsoft of unfair browser competition | ZDNet http://zd.net/IMMfts (14:13) Chirpify lands $1.3 million to sell music and concert tickets through Twitter bit.ly/IFJbQX via @ geekwire (19:38) Speed round, what our c...

(3 mins) Nerd Stalker interview with CEO of Hashable , Michael Yavonditte . Post (and share) who you meet with and introduce Show an accurate network of who you connect with the most Dynamic 'relationship book' updated with everyone you meet Discover new people by seeing who your friends are meeting

Nerd Stalker interview with 3 French startups Green Ivory , All My Apps , and Grand Tweet at a recent SF New Tech. Grand Tweet Grandtweet.com is a service that allows you to send an email to any Twitter user. GreenIvory builds e-marketing tools and technologies and offers solutions that improve the efficiency of your communication on the Internet. Our customers embrace communications agencies (traditional agencies, web agencies...) and companies for whom the web is an essential media for their activity (pure player). AllMyApps Install all your applications in one click.

(5mins) Recommend watching this in full screen mode. Twibbon stormed on to the scene yesterday, on day one they got a ton of participation from the Twitter community. Twibbon is a brand spanking new free web service, for the person who wants to join a cause it really could not be easier. For the person who wants to create a cause there is a very small ramp up and process that I'm sure will be smoothed out as the application matures. If your ok with manipulating images in your editor of choice you should not have much trouble creating your cause overlay. Kudos to the Scotland based Storm Ideas for pumping out yet another innovative application, they are definitely a company we will continue to keep a close eye on. Twibbon.com is the easiest way to promote awareness of your cause on twitter. Create a twibbon in 3 easy steps and soon all your supporters will be proudly wearing their twibbons on their twitter profile images. Simply describe your cause and upload a twibbon ...

Seesmic has just released a Twitter client called, "Seesmic Desktop" and although it's only a 0.1 preview release I have to say that this application has set the new standard for this space. What I found most interesting was: This was a Total Code Rewrite, they are working with Adobe and seem to really be pushing what AIR is capable of. Columns are all in one container, a great ux (and Tweetdeck like) improvement Duplicate post killer, smart enough to feed you one, very nice. A dropdown at the top that is smart enough to know what acct your replying from based on which it was sent to, very slick. Detachable columns Same partner services for distribution and url shortening with more coming. Drag and drop twitpic integration. Video is currently not supported but coming soon. Groups or as they call them "userlists". Again I must emphasize the support for multiple accounts is the absolute slam dunk, until everyone supports that, they aren't even in the same le...

(8 mins) Nerd Stalker visits the San Francisco Soma headquarters of ffwd to speak with CEO Patrick Koppula. Koppula is an entertainment battle-tested entrepreneur formerly of iLike, but you would never know it based on the down to Earth demeanor. The man is bright and insightful; he is passionate about ffwd's mission and future. ffwd is to video what Pandora is to streaming music, the application does an amazing job at learning your tastes and creating online video channels customized based on your viewing habits. Beating out YouTube, ffwd recently won Mashable's People's Choice award for best video solution. ffwd has a fantastic web browser experience but they will soon have a great TV, DVD player, and mobile experience as well. They also have a great partnership with our friends over at Boxee so look for that integration. It has unlimited content potential syndicating from any source including YouTube, Funny or Die, New York Times, Comedy Central, Hulu and CBS. They hav...