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WGHubris on January 21st, 2011

Someone complained when I made the comment that shoppers may tire quickly of Groupon’s daily deals now that the initial buzz has worn off. My point what that when Groupon started the idea of a sky diving lessons or massages for low prices was compelling because those were things that many people wanted to do [...]

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WGHubris on January 5th, 2011

Recently, someone recommended a television show that I had not heard of before called The Walking Dead. From what I understand the show follows a band of people trying to survive after a “zombie apocalypse.” The show airs on AMC. I get the AMC channel on my cable subscription, so there is no problem there. [...]

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WGHubris on December 29th, 2010

After talks broke down between Google and Groupon there was a lot of speculation over why the Groupon deal fell through and Google didn’t end up buying the deal of the day giant. It seems that most folks have settled upon the conclusion that Groupon was worried about antitrust issues holding up, or even blocking, [...]

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WGHubris on November 19th, 2010

I was a big fan of HootSuite. HootSuite is a web-based service that you can use to manage multiple Twitter user streams. It also works on several other services as well, although I really only use it for my numerous Twitter accounts. HootSuite was a free service that allowed users to manage several streams at [...]

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