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HyveUp, llc is a Social Web Agency dedicated to helping small Web businesses grow a voice on the social Web.
HyveUp, llc is a Social Web Agency dedicated to helping small Web businesses grow a voice on the social Web.
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It's hard to manually manage all of your contacts. Even Twitter doesn't really offer a way to do this in a breeze. Enters Tweepi, my favorite contact manager for Twitter. Tweepi makes managing Twitter contacts easy by displaying all of them in a spreadsheet:Organizing contacts this way makes it e...
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For some reason, Google thinks that the Click2Map blog is a spam blog. I received the following email early this morning: Hello, Your blog at http://click2map.hyveup.tv/ has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM. In accordance to these terms, we've removed ...
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Rumors about Google intending to buy Yelp broke out on the Web. It doesn't really come as a surprise, and it's even coming quite late in Google's game. Google is interested in consumer reviews because Google is now catering online services to small businesses.It all started on September 24th, whe...
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Well is it Germans' day or what? This morning, Twitter announced the launch of the German version of its site, a great news for the massive number of Twitter users in Germany. Almost instantaneously, Google announced its partnershsip with Audi, and the integration of Google Earth in the new A8.As...
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Last week, Google Maps sent out about 100,000 stickers throughout the US to small merchants registered on the Google's Local Business Center. Not all registered merchants got a sicker with a QR code, only those with a higher PlaceRank did.On a different parallel, a writer of SearchEngineLand noti...
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David Herron writes on his blog that several US intelligence agencies use social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to gather data about people's private lives. A study at the University of Berkeley, California, investigates what guidelines some federal agencies follow when it comes to hooveri...
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A few months back, Google Maps released icons and labels for businesses and prominent places on their maps. The new feature is intended to make discovering places easier. Clicking on an icon opens a classic marker's window withholding info about that place (business info, reviews, photos, Wikiped...
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Today, the Google Maps team is announcing a new feature (again) to its mapping tool: Bird's eye view. Until today, you could use Google's imagery technology to see the earth from space (Google Earth) and streets in details (StreetView). Now Bird's Eye View bridges the gap between Google's macro a...
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Je viens juste de tomber sur cette video sur Choses Vues, le blog de Mry. Le debat regroupe quelques personnes du milieu interactive agency en France, et se centre autour de la remuneration des bloggeurs par les agences de RP et les agences de pub. En un quart d'heure, toutes les idees essentiell...
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It took a while for online mapping and the mobile Web to converge, but now it seems like they are inseparable. As a gift before the holidays, the Google Maps team launched a Labs feature for the Google Maps application on Android phones. This is the third Labs that Google is opening to developers...
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A few month ago, Google launched a world-wide buzz with real-size map markers distributed to a selected few shops and restaurants in the major capitals of the World. This operation was meant to raise awareness about Google's Local Business Center.Since Google can't really give every merchants a h...
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Bon celle-la elle est marrante donc il faut que je la partage. La semaine derniere j'ai publie mon opinion sur le widget d'un centre commercial parisien. Pas tres flatteur la revue, donc je m'attendais un peu a une reaction de la part de l'equipe derriere la conception de ce widget. La reaction e...
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Apres ma galere pour une simple connection Internet dans ce pays, je suis fier de pouvoir annoncer que Bouygues Telecom est un bien meilleur choix d'operateur mobile que SFR. Hier, je me suis finalement procure une cle 3G qui m'autorise 5 mega de transfert de donnees avant de me downgrader au 56K...
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Today, I had to check on an IP address of someone who left a comment on my blog to better identify the location of that person. Thus I discovered GeoBytes. In short, here is what you get with an IP address:That's it! Super simple, ain't it? The info is, of course, approximate. However, if you hav...
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RECENT ACTIVITY
So it seems that AOL is going under a lot of downsizing! The once leader in Internet connectivity is now struggling to prevent its legs from shattering under the weight of the products it manages.Yesterday, Kara Swisher from All Things Digital wrote a post mentioning that AOL is probably trying t...
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It's been talked about and documented for quite a while, but it is officially happening right now: Twitter has opened up its geolocation API to all developers:Now you can find out what live music is playing right now in your neighborhood or what people visiting Checkpoint Charlie are saying today...
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I find the choice of Twitter app in the Android market a little slim. Twidroid looks big, and it feels like the competition lives under its shadow. I was a big fan of Loquacious despite a few bugs and shortcomings, but as I mentioned somewhere else, this multiple account Twitter app is not availa...
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Google Maps Mania shared a nice tip the other day about Tweeting Places a user-generated service that lets businesses know what their Twitter account is, so that loyal customers can follow them through micro-messaging.Each location is shown on the map with their Twitter profile picture. Clicking ...
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"Crossing the US-Mexican border is a sport that thousands of Mexicans practice every year. Unfortunately, its lack of regulation makes crossing the border an extremely dangerous activity. To help make this sport more official (and maybe submit it to the Olympics one day), a group of activists fro...
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Two weeks ago, I wrote about Google Docs' new zip upload feature. I was interested in the way Google was slowly eating up on Microsoft Office's grounds by adopting the position of the collaboration platform for documents. Yesterday, Techcrunch wrote about DocVerse, a plug-in to Microsoft Office...
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The Map Provider Does Matter: "Does it matter if some data is presented to you on a Google Maps or a Bing Maps? All Points Blog had an interesting post on that question yesterday:[...]Regular folks don't really care about the source background or API used, just that there's interesting data and ...
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Geocaching is coming to a theater near you! On November 6th, the movie SplinterHeads will be out. SplinterHeads is a simple love story:Galaxy (the girl, Rachael Taylor) takes Justin (the guy) on a geocaching adventure, a GPS activity that is a part hike and part treasure hunt, and he quickly fall...
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Google Docs is on a roll! Two weeks ago, the announced a great feature for Docs users: Sharable folders. With this addition to Google Docs, users don't have to share a doc again and again with their coworkers, they can just assign it to the shared folder. Today, Google brings more to its online o...
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Interesting find through The Map Room: Some developers created a database of map icons, and anyone's welcome to use them.Nico Mollet writes to tell us about his project: hundreds of free icons, colour-coded by category, to be used as placemarkers in Google Maps (API or My Maps).For two years now,...
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A few months ago, I read a very interesting post about the misconceptions around mobile Website optimization. This article (I didn't bookmark it, unfortunately) made me realize I was probably losing traffic in the growing mobile search arena. The article was mentioning the fact that search engine...
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Two months ago, Altglobe was a community of green and spiritual-minded individuals, with a publishing tool to share thoughts within the Website. Today, it is a community of eco-human friendly bloggers who connect to Altglobe with their blog's RSS feed. An house-made algorithm crawls all those fee...
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Our friend over at Google Maps Mania reports on a pretty spooky service: In Krakow, Poland, a Website offers to find the cemetery plot number of dead people on Google Maps. The 'Lokalizator' lets you search graves by 'resident' name, and offers to narrow the search down by date ranges.The map als...
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If you don't read ReadWriteWeb, you might have not heard about Twitterfeed's shiny new features: Faster engines, Pusubhubbub for real-time goodness, Facebook integration, and Google Analytics tracking enabled. This is the best list of feature additions I have seen in a while!I have been using Twi...
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