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Wondering what to do on New Years Eve? Use tips from TipTop to ring in the New Year

30 Dec

Whether you plan to celebrate the end of 2010 in style or do the 2011 Happy New Year table dance, TipTop offers up top tips, people & perspectives from social media to help transport you wherever you may want to go, no matter where you are on New Year’s Eve.

Find out how people are feeling as they ring in the new year, what new years resolutions they are making, & what’s going on in cities across America New Years Eve 2010.

In San Francisco for example, I found out that on New Year’s Day the city of San Francisco is going to reward you with a ticket-free day of parking.


To find out the New Year’s sentiment, conversation buzz or the best New Years Eve tips for your neck-of-the-woods, enter your NYE topic of interest on TipTop and “Pick Location” or click “Add City” to get the current tips.

Have a Happy New Year & a Tip Top 2011!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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Posted by on December 30, 2010 in fun events, semantic analysis, social search, Uncategorized

 

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Need last-minute holiday gift ideas? TipTop personalizes the ideas, so you can buy the perfect present!

13 Dec

If you or your friends are like me and my friends, we are all rushing around trying to buy last minute presents for those tricky family members or picky friends. Luckily for me this year, TipTop’s 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide makes finding the perfect presents and sharing unique gift ideas easy at http://ftt.nu/gifts. TipTop figures out enough of my friends’ tastes from their tweets to recommend cool gifts personalized to their interests! Try it with your friends’ Twitter IDs — or if they don’t tweet a lot (or at all) — with a celebrity’s or someone else’s ID who you think is similar to them.  For example, TipTop recommends the items below for @AshleyTisdale:

If I don’t like what ideas are displayed I can click “Refresh” to see more gift items in blue as well. Sharing the Gift Guide lists & ideas with my twitter followers with a single click is easy. For our non-social media savvy friends and relatives you still click the “Share” button to send email with the present ideas for dads, moms, grandparents, coworkers, kids, geeks, foodies, etc. TipTop has picked up and classified the gift lists by listening to what everyone is saying this holiday season about what they are going to buy and what they are dying to receive.

To learn more, check out our previous blog post “Find Presents for Anyone on Your Gift List With TipTop’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide.” From the guide, you can shop for products and buy gifts as well on TipTop Shopping. If you are looking for a gift for me here are some ideas:)

We hope you have a tip top holiday season & happy new year!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!

 
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Posted by on December 13, 2010 in semantic analysis, social search, Uncategorized

 

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Find Presents for Anyone on Your Gift List With TipTop’s 2010 Holiday Gift Guide

02 Dec

Need tips for what presents to buy for whom? Holiday meal ideas? Travel tips? TipTop ‘s 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide features thousands of gifts ideas, like presents for Mom, Dad or a gift for the boyfriend. Whether you have been naughty or nice this year, TipTop has analyzed thousands of conversations from social media like Twitter, to help make this social & shopping season as much or as little fuss per your liking. In the TipTop spirit, let others’ ideas & opinions help guide your decisions as you discover what people are buying, for kids, giving to grandparents, and surprising their significant other with in 2010.

Here are some ways get the most out of the TipTop’s 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide :

1. Surprise Me! Keep clicking Pick Another Gift till you see a present that you are interested in, then Search and delight in the results!

2.Gift Lists: click the down triangle to expand the lists, click terms to see TipTop Shopping product ratings & reviews. Make the best choices for your loved ones & your wallet!

3.Share the gifts lists you like with Twitter followers or Search TipTop for social shopping Tips!

4. Browse the Gift Cloud for thousands of gift ideas. Click the items to see what people are talking about.

5. See real-time tips via TipTop’s search widget. You can even customize the query and embed one on your web site or blog!

6. Click “What’s cooking?” to get holiday meal recipes, popular dishes & decoration tips for 2010. Check out “Places to go!” to see where folks are traveling & what they are doing once they get there.

Tip: try “Pick Location” to get local with TipTop search results!

How are the Top Holiday Gift, Meal and Travel Activity Lists & Concept Clouds generated?

TipTop looks at conversations found in social media, in this case in the form of tweets. TipTop’s advanced semantic engine understands the written word just like a person would. As a result, it can discover from within the tweets exactly what gifts people want or are planning to buy this holiday season. TipTop’s semantic  search algorithm also analyzes the sentiment around each of these wish list gifts to extract the positive and negative things people are saying about them. Once collected, analyzed, updated periodically and aggregated across individual tweets, this knowledge is presented in several different ways in TipTop’s 2010 Holiday & Gift Guide as illustrated above.

Make sure you come back next week to see some of the insights we have gleaned from all the holiday shoppers and happy tipsters out there.

Have a tip top Holiday Season & New Year!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!


 
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Posted by on December 2, 2010 in Uncategorized

 

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Thanksgiving Planning: TipTop Now, Give Thanks Later

19 Nov

This Thanksgiving, reduce the hubbub around meal planning, recipe selection, travel decisions, activity ideas and Black Friday shopping — visit TipTop’s 2010 Thanksgiving Guide, your one-stop destination for any tip you need for any aspect of your Thanksgiving weekend. TipTop gives you all the tips you need in one place so you can spend less time deciding how to celebrate, and more time enjoying the celebration!

For my family, this year’s Thanksgiving is all about keeping it real easy, saving time & money. Below are some useful tips I gleaned from TipTop’s 2010 Thanksgiving Guide. 

Thanksgiving Meal Planning: Did you know that despite all the pundits’ health warnings, Fried Turkey is one of the top ten dishes people are cooking for Thanksgiving dinner? I don’t get it, all that gobbly grease, special pots & mess to clean up.

To keep it easy, I’m going with the Spatchcocked Turkey, from a Denver Post tip found by clicking Turkey in the “Food & Recipes” section of the Guide. TipTop shows other simple dishes that people are planning to prepare this year, like sweet potato, yams, mashed potatoes & green been salad.

Thanksgiving Travel Tips:

Although more people are flying this year, TipTop’s sentiment analysis shows that people don’t seem to be looking forward to air travel this Thanksgiving weekend. Travelers are talking about flight delays, last minute air fares, and the impending “TCS Opt Out Day” airport security pat-down.

Whether you are going to one of the top US or International destinations found in TipTop’s 2010 Thanksgiving Guide Travel section or another location you can quickly see the buzz around town, changing all the time, to get the best tips for whatever interests you. Today, the conversation buzz in these cities is:

  • NYC: dinner, family, party, pack, new york city, home
  • Atlanta: thanksgiving day, dish, party, home, turkey
  • Houston: dallas, event, family, home, thanksgiving day, for thanksgiving

My family is staying local, and riding with a little one, so I was excited to find “Thanksgiving: Tips for Traveling with Baby” tip http://ftt.nu/xJpzZ from TipTop “Thanksgiving traveling” results.

Thanksgiving Activity & Shopping Tips:

Activity tipsGet tons of activity ideas & shopping tips, that TipTop has extracted from tweets, by clicking ‘Surprise Me’ under the Search box. Click ‘Pick Another Activity‘ until you see something of interest. You then get the best tips for decorating centerpieces, for example.

If you want to take advantage of all the Black Friday or Cyber Monday ads from Wal-mart, Target & Best Buy before you make holiday gift purchasing decisions, compare products on TipTop Shopping first. For example, I created an HDTV product comparison guide to easily sort by product attributes & quickly read the best product reviews below:

TipTop’s 2010 Thanksgiving Guide Top 10 lists will be updated over the next week to capture the ongoing Thanksgiving buzz, and TipTop’s search results are always exposing new tips so come back often to let TipTop help you quickly discover the best tips, get varied perspectives, and ultimately help you make better decisions.

Have a delicious Thanksgiving celebration!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!

 
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Posted by on November 19, 2010 in Uncategorized

 

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November 2010 Election Countdown: Daily Trends, Candidate Tips & the Straw Poll

29 Oct

TipTop’s 2010 Midterm Election Special gives voters a quick interactive snapshot of daily election topics and allows folks to delve into the campaign issues & policy debates going on in social media that are important to them. For fun, voters can also take a straw poll to see which political parties & candidates they swing towards for this November’s Gubernatorial, Senate & House elections.

Democratic & Republican, Tea Party & Independent voters’ top issues this election vary and how these differences will play out on Tuesday, November 2 will most likely depend on the weather. But seriously, peoples’ opinions about the direction of the US economy, healthcare,
government spending, immigration, or energy & the environmnent will all influence voter enthusiasm for the 2010 elections. The only place you can really see what is going inside voters’ heads (and your own:) is through TipTop’s 2010 Midterm Election Special. TipTop extracts the top campaign issues, about what people are really talking about, which will allow you to hear over the noisy extremists, call out the political centrists, and listen too the sideliners.

Once you are finished perusing the pundits & sharing your opinions on TipTop, don’t forget to go to the “Vote Prediction” page to see how you swing & get the latest overall results for TipTop’s Midterm Election Straw Poll. Below are some of key races for this years elections with today’s snapshot of TipTop sentiment scores & social media buzz topics. Click a candidate’s names to go to TipTop results page.

Candidates 

jerry brown

 Positive  

Sentiment

23%

 Negative  

Sentiment

13%

 Social Media Trending Topics 

california, ca, poll, campaign, box, women, office
meg whitman 30% 12% california, republican, porto, campaign, housekeeper, glendale, ebay
Rodney Glassman 27% 2%
John McCain 16% 22%
Terry Goddard 15% 7% terror, arizona, home, democrat, office, endorsement, investment fraud indictment
Jan Brewer 20% 22% arizona, phoenix, obama, prison, law, man, story
Barbara Boxer 16% 16% box, poll, california, democrat, senate, sacramento, republican
Carly Fiorina 21% 9% california, box, senate, campaign, news, candidate, hospital
Harry Reid 16% 20% senate, nevada, leader, election, poll, party, democrat
Sharron Angle 25% 29% nevada, ad, party, tea, senator, senate, candidate
Kendrick Meek 18% 18% senate, florida, democrat, candidate, demo, rep, bill clinton
Marco Rubio 23% 15% rubio, florida, senate, party, tea, candidate, republican
Charlie Crist 16% 20% senate, florida, clinton, politics, demo, bill clinton, rubio
Democrat 35% 29% candidate senate party tea republican bill clinton
Tea Party 25% 23% candidate video halloween party senate republican
Andrew Cuomo 28% 9% new york city, new york, car, democrat, candidate, campaign, muscle
Carl Paladino 18% 15% candidate, campaign, new york city, republican, home, girl, new york

Remember Midterm Election trending topics update daily so please return to TipTop’s 2010 Election Special for a daily update until November 2nd. Don’t forget to find your polling place and vote.

Have a Happy Halloween & embrace the voting booth!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

FeelTipTop.com Why? Because life happens in real time!

 
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Posted by on October 29, 2010 in feeltiptop.com, natural language, natural language search, semantic analysis, social search

 

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TipTop Captures Greater Manchester 999 Call Tweets by Topic & Trend

14 Oct

Using TipTop’s search engine it is easy to get all the Greater Manchester Police tweets on one results page at http://ftt.nu/lFdW2. Seeing all the GM police 999 call tweets in one place you can then filter the calls by topic, see sentiment trends over time & easily comment on both interesting and moronic calls via twitter.

Unfortunately the Greater Manchester police have to actually respond to the calls.

TipTop Searches Positive Calls Negative Calls Topics Extracted from Tweets
Greater Manchester OR GM police 29% 12% manchester, twitter, tween, calls, tweets, incident, incidents, people, united kingdom, tweet, emergency
from:gmp24_1 OR from:gmp24_2 OR from:gmp24_3
 6% 21% man, police, salford, youth, bolton, vehicle, car, office, wigan, request, men, oldham
from:gmp24_1 (Twitter ID)
 2% 16% man, car, police, manchester, request, salford, wigan, home, drug
from:gmp24_2 (Twitter ID)
 2% 17% man, police, bolton, vehicle, manchester, woman, salford, bury, oldham
from:gmp24_3 (Twitter ID)
 6% 24% man, bolton, wigan, vehicle, car, child, youth, rochdale, oldham, salford, men, office

To see how the tweeting public feels about the Greater Manchester police’s PR stunt or potentially sardonic 999 calls you can try a search on TipTop, like “Greater Manchester OR GM police“, “gmp” or “999 calls“.
See why people feel 29%:) and 8%:( about “Greater Manchester OR GM police” in TipTop http://ftt.nu/VnI0 See why people feel 43%:) and 10%:( about “#gmp” in TipTop http://ftt.nu/QvmF8
See why people feel 32%:) and 21%:( about “999 calls” in TipTop http://ftt.nu/Qm89e

Enjoy, and keep coming back to http://FeelTipTop.com for the 411 on the 999:)

 
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Posted by on October 14, 2010 in Uncategorized

 

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TipTop Costume Ideas For Halloween Parties & Trick Or Treat: Make, Share & Shop

08 Oct

TipTop costume search People are getting excited for Halloween this year, sharing costume ideas and trick or treat tips across the Web. Like last year’s 2009 Halloween Costume Special, TipTop’s semantic search engine has captured thousands of Halloween costume ideas being shared on social networks for 2010. People have been texting opinions, sharing ideas & making decisions about all things related to dressing up, celebrating Hallows’ Eve and trick or treating this Fall. In 2009, TipTop analysis showed that costumes like Balloon Boy, Shanaynay & Max were all the rage. For 2010, Pirate, Zombie & Lady Gaga all return to the Top costume lists along with some new & some predictable Halloween outfits. There are still many yet to be decided Girl or Man get-ups.

Below are some of the Top costumes for this week featured on TipTop’s 2010 Halloween Costume Special. Use sentiment scores (mouse over the pie charts) to see what people like or dislike about a particular costume, see related costume buzz to get specific related concepts, and take advantage of the online shopping search to get that perfect party outfit. Below is a taste of the kinds of results you will get through using TipTop.

Top Costume Ideas Positive Sentement Negative Sentiment Social Media Buzz
Pauly D 25% 5% shore, jersey, hair, costume
Lady Gaga 15% 7% youtube, guy, video, alien, makeup
Zombie 33% 4% tattoo, event, fear, haunt,friends, adult
Ghost 26% 13% candy, stories, earring, tours, party
Pirate 32% 3% princess, girl, child, adult, boy, toddler
Alice in Wonderland 35% 17% queen, girl, heart, party, guy, rabbit
Girl 33% 13% baby girl, princess, adult, guy, costumes, daughter, boyfriend
Man 32% 11% house, party, iron, girl, colonial,  avatar
Orange 35% 15% black, pumpkin, earring, glass, jello,  house, lights, hat, shirt
Snooki 32% 7% shore, jersey, girl, hair, star,costumes, clothing, makeup
Belle 26% 13% princess, beauty, kid, party, disney, book, hall, daughter, park, baby
Facebook 37% 5% party, event, fan, skin, pumpkin, hat, image, friends, sleepy hollow

This week some Halloween costumes buzzing around social media that might be of interest for you to make, suggest to a friend, or buy online include:

  • Top people costumes being mulled around include: Girl, Man, Slut, Princess, Rapper, Pirate, Couple, Guy, Myself …see more on TipTop’s Halloween Special
  • Top thingamajig costume ideas getting worked out: Pumpkin, Orange, Facebook, Book, Haunted house, Cupcake … see more on TipTop’s Halloween Special

 

 

 

 

 

 

Make sure you visit TipTop’s 2010 Halloween Costume Special frequently to see what new costume ideas are buzzing around the social stratosphere & how people feel about them (see the sentiment pie charts). This will also help you to make fun costume suggestions to your friends & family. You can also search for what people are planning to wear at a location near you by selecting “Pick Location” option from when searching. For example, see the costume-related “Viewpoints from Philadelphia” below.

How are the Top 10 Costume Lists and Costume Clouds generated?

TipTop’s advanced semantic engine understands each and every tweet just like a human being would. As a result, it can discover from within the tweets exactly who is planning to wear what costume this Halloween. Once collected and aggregated across individual tweets, this knowledge is presented organized in several different ways in TipTop’s 2010 Halloween Costume Special page. We classify the costumes into a number of natural categories and show the top costumes within each category based on their overall popularity. The sentiment attached to each costume is computed by estimating the sentiment expressed in each of the corresponding Halloween costume snippets.

Have a Happy Halloween!

Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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Posted by on October 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

 

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Weekend Movies: Which new release film deserves your time or dime?

01 Oct

See what’s hot or not for October 1st openings at theaters this weekend on TipTop! Do you need some help deciding which movie to see on the big screen? Are you trying to figure out whether or not a new release film is movie theatre or DVD worthy? Or if you are in the same predicament as @MaddyTweetz, do yourself a favor and use TipTop to help you figure it all out.

MaddyDebating what movie to catch tonight: The Town, Social Network or Let me In. Thoughts??
The movie grid below is a quick and easy way to compare topics across aggregated sentiment scores, browse current buzz topics & see current tips from social media. To create a similar comparison grid for yourself on TipTop simply go to http://FeelTipTop.com:
  1. Enter a movie (or any topic) in the search box and save your query to “My TipTop” (To learn more read our previous My TipTop blog post)
  2. Go to “My TipTop” & comare the Selected Queries across positive & negative Tip sentiment, see movie related conversation topics, and get real-time Tips.
  3. Click “E-mail” & share your movie grid with friends.

 

New Movies (Click for Current Tips) :) Tips :( Tips Conversation Buzz Topics
The Social Network 41% 6% social network, movie, facebook, film, story, ticket, life, wonder, seeing, tomatoes, album, world, walls
“Let Me In” 44% 8% movie, social network, film, horror, never let me go, theatre, scene, man, kid, actor, star, guy
“The Town” 37% 9% town, movie, social network, girl, work, painting, mall, seeing, car, hotel, eat
Freakonomics 29% 2% movie, film, book, social network, documentary, author, man, fan, talk
Ip Man OR Yip Man 20% 8% man, movie, film, legend, social network, hahaha, sama, hahahaha
Barry Munday 19% 60% movie, bar, greedy, wilson, film, hilarious, performance, man, info, director, ball, talk, role, atlantis
Anjaana Anjaani 44% 14% movie, film, song, star, stars, theatre, luv, story, bollywood, ticket, hair, c, work, india, p
    Gregomyleggo_TwitterPhoto Below are some of the social media Tips “I liked” & saved in “My TipTop” while checking out what people were “going to see” this weekend.

     

    Again, from My TipTop @TwitTipTop can send you or your friends an E-mail like this:
    “Hello, these are the snippets you have saved in My TipTop.”
    Image Twitter Id Topic Snippet
    _socialmedianow The Social Network The 10 most Glaring Lies in ‘The Social Network‘ : http://bit.ly/9hyuk2 #thesocialnetwork
    bloodboyhorror “Let Me In” Horror-drama ‘Let Me In’ does its Swedish inspiration original justice: When Overture Films announced it would mak… http://bit.ly/b0jCon
    mting Ip Man OR Yip Man Loving the Ip Man 2 soundtrack. More variations than the previous film. A recommendation if u love Oriental film scores #ipman2 #soundtrack
    workingauthor Barry Munday ‘Barry Munday‘ starring Patrick Wilson, Judy Greer, Cybill Shepherd, Malcolm McDowell and more reviewed! http://bit.ly/9Ui38o
    trabajareuropa Freakonomics @MakingOf: Freakonmics is now in theaters! Hear @MorganSpurlock discuss the film and more @MakingOf http://bit.ly/aVKON6”
    nikkyraney “The Town” My movie review for THE TOWN —> Blake Lively owns ‘The Town’ By Nikky Raney – http://bit.ly/ccca4E @zennie62.com
    kapylr Anjaana Anjaani Enjoyed watching Anjaana Anjaani. Great performances by @priyankachopra and @ranbir_kapoor

    Remember to come back to TipTop to guide your film viewing & DVD movie rental decisions or help whenever you are looking for insights around any topic — locally or globally. Enjoy!

    Greg Martin & the TipTop Team

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    Posted by on October 1, 2010 in Film, natural language, natural language search, social search, Web/Tech

     

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    Weekend Movie Reviews: New Releases

    24 Sep

    See What’s Hot & What’s Not at theaters this weekend! Do you need some help deciding which movie to see this weekend on the big screen? Are you trying to figure out whether or not a new release film is movie theatre or DVD worthy? Or if you are at the same predicament as Roger, do yourself a favor and use TipTop help you figure it all out.

    RogerDeRok tweets: “Debating whether to take Luisa to see Legend Of The Guardians this weekend or wait until it hits the 2nd run theaters to avoid wallet rape.”

    This is what people are saying about this weekends new releases. Click the links to see the magic of TipTop ;-)

    Query Tips% Pits% Concepts
    “the social network”
     I logged into facebook after having seen THE SOCIAL NETWORK. I FEEL SO SOULLESS AND LONELY (@ Barnes & Noble) http://4sq.com/ckd4OU    		 32% 9% social network, movie, facebook, newark, school, seeing, screening, work, premiere, soundtrack, catfish
    “100 Voices”
    Just saw “100 Voices: A Journey Home”-inspired, emotional, historic, educational & the cantors were outstanding! http://tinyurl.com/26j5y5o
    		 30% 4% home, movie, film, music, poland, documentary, song, event, gold, history, ticket
    Tibet in Song

     

    Opening in #NYC on Friday-”Tibet in Song” by former Political Prisoner Ngawang Choephel. Great review here: http://bit.ly/9WnPIb

    #tibet #fb

    		 18% 2% song, new york city, film, cinema, documentary, premiere, magazine
    movie “Wall Street”
    Thoughtful, well written review. Good movie writing. NYT: Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street” Sequel – http://nyti.ms/8YtzYS    		 51% 9% street, walls, film, greedy, bank, system, wall street journal, business, work, the wall
    Waiting for Superman
     Waiting for Superman: Andy- some students charming. Tries to give us hope, but this could have been PBS http://cot.ag/bEAmVw #filmweek    		 21% 9% education, movie, documentary, school, system, film, theater, teacher, video, walls, street, new york city, student, american
    Anjaana Anjaani

    Anjaana Anjaani Release Date Delayed New Release Date 1st October – http://tinyurl.com/3674tdw
    		 32% 14% song, movie, film, ayodhya, video, bollywood, pic, guy, fan, tween, hp
    movie Howl
     enjoyed the movie Howl. I have a new appreciation for allen Ginsberg’s work and the literary heritage of SF. James Franco was great.    		 43% 4% allen, poem, story, book, poetry, talk, opening, theater, dinner
    Enter the Void
     Death Is A trip In Enter The Void http://bit.ly/9oPtWy
    		 37% 7% film, gaspar, movie, town, trip, cinema, theater, united kingdom, director, new york city, seeing, fan, folks
    Legend of the Guardians
    Without a doubt, Zack Snyder’s BEST movie to date. Absolutely INCREDIBLE and, at times, BREATHTAKING.    		 38% 10% legend, movie, walls, street, kid, theater, theatre, game, talking, ako, film, partner
     
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    Posted by on September 24, 2010 in Uncategorized, Weekend Movies

     

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    Topical Tips for September 23rd

    23 Sep

    Top “Mark Zuckerberg” Tips from TipTop, The Insight Engine

    Zuck‘s donating $100M to newark education. Interesting timing. Kudos nonetheless. http://nyti.ms/dCHdg8

    Dear Mr Zuckerberg, stop screwing with facebook. Remember how we shunned bebo? Fix it now or you’re next

    ToFrom@danilic Zuckerberg turns off fb and world breathes sigh of relief. Meanwhile, 300m nerds panic at thought of having to talk in person

     
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    Posted by on September 23, 2010 in Topical Tips

     

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