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As part of my ongoing MBA classes at Bluffton University I have spent the last several weeks collecting blogosphere and mainstream media references to Geeksquad, the computer repair arm of Best Buy. I will share some of the information I found through del.icio.us and technorati, as well as providing a summary.
Technorati Mentions Per Day:

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Maxed Out is a new documentary out by James Spurlock, which details the credit card industry and the current state of debt in the US. I hope to see the documentary but it looks like it may be a while until it gets to either a theatre near me or to DVD.
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Who does Verizon think they are these days? Sony? The latest firmware updates to the chocolate series of phones breaks the connectivity between Bitpim and the phone. This isn’t a case of the update changing the internal structure and an unsupported product no longer functioning. This is a blatant blocking of the [...]

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The new influx of cheap and revolutionary information technology into the business world has the chance of greatly changing even businesses with the most stringent budget. The beauty of the ideas behind the web 2.0 movement is that the barriers to entry are small which results in often free or very cheap services that [...]

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Ricky Gervais visits Africa for Comic Relief.  Hilarious, well somewhat, you have to get Ricky’s style of comedy. 

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I am so annoyed that everytime I see a movie trailer or poster it says only in theaters.  I had previously been under the impression that the tagline meant that the movie would only ever be shown in theaters.
After much googling, it appears the tagline “only in theaters” is reserved for the imbeciles who think [...]

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If you have Firefox and a Del.icio.us account I highly recommend the plugin provided by Yahoo toorganize your bookmarks. I started doing this when I migrated to Ubuntu last week. I just found out today that if you highlight something on a page then bookmark it with del.icio.us the highlighted text is entered [...]

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Today we ordered some pictures to feed my wife’s scrapbooking addiction and Wal-Mart showed a 1 hour processing time the whole way through check out.  The cart said the pictures would be available at 3:49PM, 1 hour from ordering time, also what we pay a premium for.  After we went through the checkout process we [...]

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Check out this interesting story of how Goldcorp shared their intellectual property regarding geology on property they owned to avoid bankruptcy and make millions.
Goldcorp and IP sharing

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Electronic networks are pervasive many companies at presently and are used to aid in efficiently running the company. Electronic networks are defined by John Seely Brown in two ways, “First, they help deal with cascades of information that many people find so threatening. Second, they promise to handle many intricate human tasks.” (Brown, Duguid [...]

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