Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 At Fred Meyer

Though the Asus 7″ 1280×800 tablet is “just around the corner”, and with rumors flying about the impending release of the Apple iPad 3 retailers are trying to clear out what stock they have.  Spotted FutureShop (in Canada, at least) dropping prices on all their iPad 2 – and their staff is flogging them heavily to any unsuspecting customer that happens to walk down the aisle with all the other tablets.

I just spotted Fred Meyer (yes, they actually sell electronics…) selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.  Specs include:

• Android Honeycomb 3.2
• 1.2GHz Dual-Core processor
• 16GB memory
• Front and rear camera

Doesn’t mention whether it’s locked or unlocked or any other details on their flyer but what I don’t quite understand is the price – $349.99 it would seem that they are not trying to get rid of these.  I’ve seen this for as low as $299.99 at FM several months ago so don’t quite understand their pricing strategy (and that price is at a $50.00 savings off the regular price of $399.99).

But if you’re looking for a 7″ tablet and can’t wait for the Asus then the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 is a nice tablet.

 

How Is Social Media Used

It is really interesting to see how social media is used, forget about the misadventures of some people who try to cheat their insurance companies, or lie to get out of work and post NSFW (or NFW) photos on platforms like FaceBook.  Those types of stories are a great read, but once read they are generally forgotten.

But how does the world use social media?

Based on 2009 data from the site eMarketer (http://www.emarketer.com) here is some great detail:

1. 81.50% of people use social media to stay in touch with friends; do you wonder why the USPS and other mail companies are bleeding cash?  Even my parents are on Facebook, and though my wife’s mom isn’t her brothers and sisters are so they are always in touch.
2. Coming close behind messaging friends is uploading photos at 76.30% – digital cameras, and smart phones have probably accelerated that number.  Why print photos, when you can simply e-mail them to friends and family or post them on Facebook and other photo sharing sites?
3. Is it surprising that social networking is used by 74.30% of people to find old friends and another 56.40% of people use social networking to find new friends.

This study was conducted by Universal McCann “Power to the people: Social Media Tracker Wave 4″.  See the full article at eMarketer or head over to Universal McCann at http://www.umww.com

The article is a bit old by any standards, but well worth the read if you are trying to learn more about social networking.  Follow the link: http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007232

Bad FaceBook MoJo

It’s probably happened to you.  You “LIKE” something, then a few days later your FaceBook account gets a mind of its own liking porn or worse of the worst on the web.

Chances are you liked what looked like a legitimate page, and accepted the permissions (most apps/likes etc., almost always want to post to your FB page as you) and now you’re in a conundrum.  You don’t want to delete your profile and start over.  How do you fix it?

You can try and find the Customer Service address for Facebook – I tried that once without much luck, maybe it was staring me in the face but couldn’t locate it and when I did nobody ever replied to me.  Or you can take matters into your own hands.  It’s easy.

First find the offending post(s), for this example I’ll use ZAGG (they are a GREAT company – this is ONLY BEING USED for an example):

Hover your mouse above the BOXED ARROW as shown in the picture above and CLICK on it.  Next you should see this:

At this point you can either REPORT STORY OR SPAM or HIDE ALL BY [offending item name]

You’re done.

If you HIDE ALL these rogue posts will never show-up on your account, but I would also recommend REPORTING THE STORY.  Hopefully FB would then take action against those rogue posts.

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