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Internet Radio for Work, Home, and Travel
Jul 29th
It is common to see people walking around plugged in to an ipod, iphone, or other portable mp3 device in almost any city around the world. Having music at your fingertips is a necessity these days, and the internet has made that even more convenient with a host of free internet radio sites. These sites are unique as they let you choose the type of music, or even the songs, that you enjoy and then create playlists of similar music. As opposed to YouTube, which plays one video at a time, internet radio continually streams music based on the user’s personal preference. This can provide for free music all day with limited to no commercial breaks! Even better the sites can be accessed via computer or Smartphone. Once the app is downloaded to the iphone, blackberry or other device, users can listen on the go or plug the phone in to a car or speaker system.
There are three stations that immediately come to mind, but with the high traffic of users and possible advertising opportunities, there are sure to be more to come. As of right now, the sites are free, but the user has the option of upgrading to claim certain perks, such as the elimination of the few commercial breaks, for a small monthly fee. Personally I am not bothered by the commercials and tend to use internet radio on a daily basis. The three most popular would have to be Pandora, grooveshark, and slacker radio.
1. Pandora- Simple and easy to use, just enter a song or artist and it creates a playlist of songs that are similar to your taste. You can create a profile of what songs you especially like and even make different “stations” based on what genre comes to mind.
2. Grooveshark- This site gives the user more freedom than choosing one song or artist to represent a playlist, you can compile your own playlist or choose one song and let the website pick the rest. Another perk, this site has zero commercials between songs, they have chosen to generate advertising revenue solely on the picture ads on the web page. One drawback here, once it starts the random selection of songs you can’t see the title or artist for future reference.
3. Slacker Radio- In addition to entering a song choice, this website allows the user to click on genres to create a more general playlist. This can be helpful or frustrating, for those interested in having music tailored directly to their taste this may not be the best option but it certainly beats listening to a traditional radio station.
For those who are constantly on the go and need music to fuel their day, internet radio is the way to go. It’s free, easy, and available anywhere there is an internet connection.
Press Release June/July 2010
Jul 20th
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Meshtop for Outlook 2010 utilizes OSC and Facebook Graph API.
BELLEVUE, Washington, June 30, 2010 – Today Meshtop released a new version of their Outlook plug-in that organizes Facebook, Twitter and MSN social networks into the popular email client. As social networking services (SNS) become more important to maintain business and personal contacts in the professional world, Meshtop helps users link email addresses with their respective contacts on Facebook, Twitter and MSN, bringing ease and organization to the use of multiple social networking mediums. This will allow businesses to seamlessly connect professional email clients to social networking streams.
Meshtop’s plug-in displays as an expandable sidebar in Outlook and searches through Outlook, Facebook, Twitter and MSN contacts to discover links between accounts, recommending suggestions to link possible matches. Expanding Meshtop to the Network view offers an intuitive way to organize contacts by creating groups and tagging contacts. These organizational tools achieve the company’s goal of simplifying SNS’s to reap their benefits more effectively.
This release of Meshtop utilizes the built-in OSC in Outlook 2010, allowing a simple sync between your Outlook data and Social Network data. This allows you to see up-to-the minute Facebook and Twitter information for your Outlook contacts.
Meshtop for Outlook 2010 also takes advantage of Facebook’s Open Graph API. You may browse your contacts by Facebook activity, Likes or Books (linked to profile information) in a floating panel.
Users who do have not yet upgraded to Outlook 2010 may still continue to use Meshtop for Outlook 2003/2007.
As online social interaction continues to increase, Meshtop is producing a series of products to manage and link contacts from various SNS’s, saving time and increasing productivity by bridging the gap between social network mediums.
Highlighted Meshtop Features:
• Contact management through visual networks – Right click to group multiple friends by tagging or to send them emails.
• Upload photos to Facebook – Batch upload local photos and captions as well as comment on friends’ photos.
• Browse your friends’ Facebook photos either online/offline – Meshtop will schedule a sync-up to Facebook to download the latest photos from your friends, which is a great feature for the business traveler who may not have constant access to an internet connection.
• Integration of Facebook OpenStream and Tweets into Outlook – Easily follow and interact with friends’ latest updates. Meshtop offers the option to view just Facebook or Twitter updates, as well as combining them into one list.
• Monitor trending topics and search real time topics on Twitter in Outlook – In addition to this search function, Meshtop saves custom search queries for repeated use.
• Publish your status simultaneously to Facebook, Twitter and MSN – in the “What are you doing?” field, Meshtop also offers URL shortening and photo sharing from TinyURL, Bit.ly, and TwitPic.
• Intelligent contact mapping connects Outlook contacts with Facebook and Twitter profiles – Meshtop’s intelligent match engine will find your friends’ social profiles between Outlook, Twitter, Facebook and MSN and combine the information into one contact card.
