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This is a huge victory to everyone who uses the internet, whether it be surfing, blogging, or running your own business.

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid postponed a showdown vote in his chamber on the Protect Intellectual Property Act, or PIPA for short, that had been scheduled for January 24th. Lamar Smith, the Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, followed suit, saying his panel would delay action on similar legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, until there is wider agreement on the legislation.  Read the rest of this entry » Anti-Piracy Bills SOPA &#...

Wikipedia goes black tonight to protest SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act). Both are looking to be passed through Congress to give the government control of what we do on the internet, what websites we access, and who can view that access at any time.

The Stop Online Piracy Act, considered the broader of the two bills, will not be introduced in the House, according to a statement from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has co-authored an alternative proposal to SOPA called the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act. “Majority Leader [Eric Cantor (R-Va.)] has assured me that we will continue to work to address outstanding concerns and work to build consensus prior to any anti-piracy legislation coming before the House for a vote,” Issa said in a news release.

View the Wikipedia statement regarding it’s blackout in 12 hours:  Read the rest of this entry » Wikipedia blacks out

Are the Nike jerseys for next year the real thing, or are they glorious redesigns by an artist who worked on the Nike uniforms for College football? Either way, we have your NFC and AFC champions, ready to battle it up over who has the best looking design!

The voting ends one month from now – the night of Super Bowl XLVI – the 46th year of the greatest single-day championship in the world.

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While I cannot personally agree with some of the top picks by voters, the reviews are very mixed with some of the Nike Pro Combat designs presented for the 2012 NFL season, when Reebok loses their contract.

Many people feel they are a ripoff from the college designs, but I’m not sure what to expect other than what we have, from the same group of artists.

This poll as well as the NFC side will expire at the end of the regular season, January 1 2012. See below for the photos!

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The votes are in, and the winners for each of the 4 NFC divisions are below: Carolina Panthers (54%), Minnesota Vikings (52%), Philadelphia Eagles (50%), Arizona Cardinals (44%). Choose your favorite jersey design for the 2012 NFL season, brought to you by Nike and not Reebok!

These 2 polls, the NFC and AFC champions, will end when the NFL season is over, January 1st 2012, coincidentally the second day of my marriage. =)

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I recall the days when MySpace was “the place to be”. We all had our profiles, decorated the way we liked, with our favorite songs starting up whenever anyone went to our profile page. Some profiles would never finish loading since people decided that 500 sparkly animated images about how cool things are was simply too awesome to pass on up, and they wanted to share them all with the world. Of course, this is one of the reasons MySpace died. Mass advertisements (removed by AdBlock, thanks very much!) and slow loading profile pages.

This is when Facebook began to flourish. Simple, clean pages, fast loading times, and you could easily find what you wanted to: your friends and their updates, all in one neat looking spot. Then began the now real of Facebook, with the online free gaming system, one Facebook application at a time. And as such, continued on went the days of slow loading pages, clutters and messes and not finding what you really want to see, and the needing of sorting through trash to again find meaningful updates from those you associate with.

It feels to me that every 4-5 years we are in need of a new social media connection. Google tried and failed with Wave, Buzz, and now their new toy is out, Google Plus. Will this finally be the magic trick that Google succeeds with?

I’ve taken a run through of the new Google+. For now, with limited friends, it does feel like Facebook, but reinvented for our new decade. More ajax framework, more ability to easily move and sort and group content and friends in the ways that you like. Classify any bit of your online life, how you choose. That’s how I would sum it up so far.

You can see the official website here: https://plus.google.com/

Google+ is designed around “Circles” that allow users to group people within their social sphere into different categories. Google says that the people you tend to meet up with on Saturday nights, for example, can be grouped into their own category, while parents can be placed into another. You can then decide to share only certain information with different Circles.  Read the rest of this entry » Google+ Trumps Facebook?

I would have to say to, upon seeing the title of  a study by LinkedIn. They released data on the differences between men and women when it comes to networking professionally online, from their 100+ million member base.

To declare a winner in this battle of the sexes argument, LinkedIn developed an online professional networking “savviness” ranking. Globally and in the U.S. men are savvier online professional networkers than women. LinkedIn defines online professional networking savviness as a ratio of two things: the ratio of connections that men have to connections that women have and the ratio of male members on LinkedIn to female members. ”Having the right connections can make a difference when it comes to sealing a deal or landing a new client,” said Nicole Williams, LinkedIn’s Connection Director and best-selling author of the book, “Girl on Top.” “Women can sometimes shy away from networking because they associate it with schmoozing or doling out business cards, when in reality, it’s about building relationships before you actually need them. Networking in person can be intimidating, so women should look at a site like LinkedIn as a place they can go to cultivate their networking skills.”  Read the rest of this entry » Are women more tech-savvy...

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The 8th division of my 2012 Nike NFL jerseys is here – the worthless buffalo Bills, the clown looking Miami Dolphins, the star-spangled banner puke Justin Bieber hair wearing Tom Brady and his New England Patriots, and the sweet looking New York Jets. No favoritism or anything, especially when you have Revis Island on your side.

Vote below, click the link for the images, and you can see all other 7 polls as well. Enjoy!

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Social networking use has doubled since 2007, and it’s all thanks to Facebook, Twitter and an array of other social companies reaching record traffic highs. Website comScore’s latest numbers are out, and they paint a familiar story: social networking is on the rise. It’s the rate of growth that’s surprising, though.

According to the web analytics firm, the average online user in the U.S. now spends nearly 16% of his or her time on social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr or Twitter. That’s up from just 8% in July 2007. In the last year alone, social networking use has increased by approximately 25%.

The biggest reason for the increase in social networking is Facebook and its 700+ million users. In August 2005, Facebook was tiny compared to MySpace, its primary competitor. Facebook attracted less than 10 million monthly U.S. visitors, compared to MySpace’s 20+ million.

It wasn’t until May 2009 when Facebook finally caught up with its competitor, and ever since then Facebook has been on the rise, while MySpace has experienced a dramatic fall from grace. In May 2011, Facebook garnered 157.2 million visitors, more than four times the size of Myspace (34.9 million visitors). Facebook now reaches 73% of the U.S. Internet population each month, while MySpace has lost nearly 50% of its audience in the last year alone.

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I realize it’s been awhile, but we have two more divisions to go!

Here we have the horrific Dallas Cowboys, who I thought were going to the playoffs this time last  year, followed by the poor past-Super Bowl champion NY Giants, who cannot seem to figure out how to make a proper punt to DeSean Jackson (watch the video!), Michael Vick and the reset of those Philadelphia Eagles, and then the Washington Redskins who are in a world of trouble between Donovan McNabb and Albert Haynesworth.

One vote per IP address, here we go for the last of the NFC divisions!

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