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Charter is at it again, they’re going crazy with their Camaro Sweepstakes this time.

For the last two months Charter has been giving away a Laptop every day. I guess they decided that this isn’t flashy enough so they stepped it up a notch (or quite a few notches) and are now giving away a 2010 Camaro 2SS
Hurry though, this contest runs until November 26th at noon.

In case the chance to win a Camaro isn’t enough for you, when you sign up for 3 Charter services they give you a $100 gift card. If you sign up for 2 Charter services they give you a $50, if you decide to sign up for one service they’ll give you a $25 gift card.

Why Charter? why a Camaro? well, it’s all about fast. The Camaro is 426 Horsepower, Charter is lightning fast too.
Cleverly, Charter is making a comparison with your home too – “Charter brings your home to life, now we’re bringing your garage to life too!”

Charter is famous for their cable, lightning fast internet and telephone services. Their bundle packages are something to see too. You can save with combining services and pooling your resources.

All you have to do is check out Charter.com/camaro to view the rules and register to enter.  It’s a really, really sweet ride too – well worth a shot.

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Google gives it’s Gmail users a really huge amount of inbox space to keep their email messages in.
While I’m sure not a lot of us are using all of it, if you sync your whole inbox to your computer it can take up quite some space.

Google has now given Gmail users a few syncing options. You can select which labels and which messages under those labels to sync.

More in the official Gmail Blog

• Gmail Offline Mode Updated (ubergizmo.com)

Interesting video from Current TV. It the current economic climate driving people to use online dating more?

<!--noadsense-->This is just a quick overview of a product that doesn’t get enough press yet is really, really handy.

Proxy Networks makes software called Proxy Pro (currently version 7) which is one of the most powerful, most secure (highest in it’s class at 256 bit) Remote Management, Remote Access, Remote Control suites available.

I love stuff like this! I’ve managed networks, both large and small, before and there are few companies out there who have developed the software with the functionality and security to really get the job done.

It would seem that Proxy Networks has actually worked on and with remote control software before and knows what needs to happen to make it useful.

What does Proxy Pro do? Well, it gives people like in-house support technicians the ability to securely access your desktop to troubleshoot on the spot, on your screen.
That’s just the beginning though! Using Proxy Pro your support can poll the entire network and discover all the computers on the network, looking for those that are ready to be connected to.

It goes a lot further than just being able to connect to a remote computer using the small, easy to install host and master software. You have the usual stuff like blank screen mode, view only mode, chat etc. but there are nice little bells and whistles like remote clipboard, remote printing, file transfer (with resumes) and multi-monitor support. Like I said, things that techs wished they had in remote access software.

Remote management aspects of Proxy Pro are rather astounding too – There’s the Hardware and Software management. You can fully, remotely inventory your systems.
Through the system manager you can not only access but modify your remote system settings.
There are many other managers too – accounts, shared resources, processes, services, registry, events and power to name just a few.

It’s deployable, it’s customizable, it’s powerful, yet secure and functional.

If you’re looking for a remote access, control, management software solution – Proxy Pro is well worth a look.

Find out more here

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 3, 2009 — Terabitz
(http://terabitz.com), an online real estate company that
delivers revenue-focused solutions to real estate
brokerages, today announced the release of a new Web
platform. The platform includes content, tools, and back-end
features that enable real estate companies to deliver a more
engaging and useful experience to online buyers and sellers.
The platform was released through leading Chicago brokerage
@properties (http://atproperties.com). The new @properties
Website can be viewed at http://www.atproperties.com.

Terabitz, which already counts many leading real estate
companies as clients, will make the platform available to
brokerages across the country later this month.

“The Website is the most important brand touch point a real
estate company has today, so it must be excellent in every
way possible – anything less exacts a price in customers,”
says Terabitz CEO Ashfaq Munshi. “This platform allows
brokers to meet that challenge, to engage users in way that
builds loyalty – and business.”

Platform highlights include:
– Neighborhood and Community pages featuring business
reviews, photos and school reports as well as hyperlocal
news content.

– Real estate market reports featuring data and trends
derived from live MLS (Multiple Listing Service) data and
displayed in a way users can understand at a glance. Reports
are provided at the neighborhood and community level, which
makes them more useful than typical city- or county-level
views.

– Property search that better merchandizes listings through
a “gallery” view that enables the user to view large photos
in the search results display.

– Explore the Neighborhood(TM), a map-based tool that
enables users to view amenities in the area of their home
search – businesses, places of worship, recreational
facilities and more – in order to understand what it is like
to live in a place.

– Terabitz One-to-One(TM), a prospecting tool that enables
agents to create dedicated, automatically updating Websites
for homeowners that display recent sales, new listings and a
dynamic home value estimate.

“Our ambition was to create the best real estate Website in
our market, and it soon became clear that Terabitz was the
best partner for making that happen,” said Thaddeus Wong,
co-founder and CEO of @properties. “Their commitment to
never-ending innovation matched our own and resulted in a
site that places us in that leadership position – and, just
as importantly – will keep us there for years to come.”

Concludes Munshi, “Real estate companies have been limited
by sub-par Web solutions for too long – solutions that cost
them too much and deliver too little. This new platform
deepens our commitment to providing a better way.”

About Terabitz

Terabitz is a Silicon Valley-based technology company. The
venture-backed firm is led by a group of technology veterans
with decades of executive-level experience at Oracle, SGI,
Applied Materials and other leading companies. For more
information, please visit http://www.terabitz.com.

TrendTracker tweeted something from SocialNetDaily the other day that raised a rather interesting point. Here’s my take on it.

The general jist is that, the more you tweet links, the fewer clicks you’ll get.

In a weird mathematical form it does make sense, in a very general way too (i.e covering a broad Twitter user base).
In theory, the more you tweet, and the more links you tweet, the fuller a person’s Twitter timeline becomes, the harder it is to follow you and what you’re saying , the less likely it is that you’ll be read and clicked. That is, if you’re not tweeting so much stuff that people unfollow you because you’re too busy ranting from your soapbox.

Theoretically, this is correct, and Dan’s charts do show that this can happen. However, there are many more considerations to factor in, especially with the user base that Twitter has.

Take one of my favorite Social Media Celebrities – Mr. Chris Brogan, he does Tweet rather a lot, I’m sure many of his followers follow many people, their Twitter timelines will be rather full, however Chris puts a lot of links out there and I’m sure he gets more than a few clicks on those links.

Yes, math comes into play, it’s simply not possible to see all that people tweet all the time.
The human part of Social Media comes into play too. Make a headline interesting and it’s likely to grab attention, put it out there at the right time (in general or relevant time for the reader) and you’ll get clicked and retweeted, if you engage and are interesting you’ll get clicks.

In the end, I think it’s all down to you. It’s all down to how you manage your twitter following (following and followers) and how you engage.

Keep who you follow managed, make sure they’re people you engage with and engage with you. Or are people who are relevant to you. If someone is just spewing junk that has nothing to do with you.. why are you following them? They’re filling your screen with noise and detracting from the people you want to listen to.

Manage how you tweet your links. Your followers don’t want to see nothing but links in your account. When they do see links, they want to see interesting ones. “Hey click this!..” does sometimes work but blind clicks aren’t always good clicks. Something like “@JustinKownacki spotted a good coffee shop map, here it is..” often works a lot better. This way you’re telling people what it’s about, where it came from and people searching Twitter for coffee shop maps are likely to pick up on it.

What do you think? do more tweeted links mean fewer clicks?

See Dan Zarrella’s article here

<!--noadsense-->It’s that time of year again. Christmas is coming and before Christmas, as we all know, comes Black Friday.

Black Friday (in the US at least) is the busiest shopping day of the year, so called because retails stores hope to at least balance their books and go from the red and into the black.

If you’re looking for Black Friday deals online you should check out DealTaker’s Black Friday page, it’s full of big store names with pages that are updated as the store ads come out, giving you a simple list – online – of all the deals you need.

For example, the KMart page is already listed with some great buys, listing everything from Automotive to Video Games.

There are pictures of the actual ad from the store so that you can take a look for yourself too.

Other nice features of the site are discussion forums for shoppers to post their own deals. There’s a countdown to the day itself and a handy popular searches cloud which tells you what your fellow deal seeking visiting shoppers are searching for.

Be sure to check the bottom of the store pages too for the latest, hot deals.

So, check out DealTaker.com and get ahead on your Black Friday shopping.

So, it all started when people started telling me that they had called my AT&T iPhone and were told the voicemail box is full.
Because I rely greatly on my iPhone and it’s service this kindof concerned me.

I checked the voicemail on the phone – nothing there. I called it manually and found there to be a stack of Voicemail messages in my AT&T Box!

Of course I started deleting messages and looking for a solution.
It would appear that I’m not the only person who has had this disconnect between the iPhone Visual Voicemail and the AT&T Voicemail box.

Google Talk was my first thought for a voicemail replacement and after a quick Google I found that it will actually work.

I’m all about centralization so the Google Talk Voicemail replacement is a wonderful solution for me.

Here’s what happens. As long as you’re a Google Talk user and are on one of the supported providers, Google can give you instructions for forwarding your voicemail to your Google Talk account.

It’s really quite simple, it’s effective and it works.

(I’m not sure whether the custom messages play though, I’ll play with it some and find out).

See the Official Google Support page here