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Cocktail Talk
Bits and bytes of computer chat-chat
to help you through those dreary Cocktail Parties.
April
2010
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Dear Craig,
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Welcome to
CN Consulting's "Cocktail Talk".
Cocktail Talk is a casual monthly newsletter intended to arm you with
amusing bits and bytes of information on whats happening in the computer
world. Topics sure to break the ice and capture an audience at many a
social or business event.
Cocktail
Talk is Archived at www.cnci.us
There
are buttons below to do things including unsubscribe. If you unsubscribe
you will be immediately removed from our email list and may end up hanging
around a soggy fruit tray sipping warm beer, alone, at your next Cocktail
Party.
But
that's your call, and that's Cocktail Talk.
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I
Apologize.
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I apologize Facebook People.
You set up a Twitter acount and made Soulja Boy and Penn
Gillette your friends and used it for a whole month but you won't even let
me be your Facebook Friend and I caught a really big fish and how can you
say all those bad things about Facebook without even using it?"
Please, take a breath, use punctuation even. I apologized
already. In case you didn't hear me the first time let me say it a little
louder. I APOLOGIZE.
Happy?
I'll tell you what*. I haven't looked at Facebook since
Cocktail Talk September 2008 and the search for Roxanne. So let's
visit Facebook, again, for a whole month, and write about it for the June
Cocktail Talk. 
So find me, friend me, poke me with with a cold
makerel, send me pictures (No nudes! Rob.) do whatever it
is Facebook People do. Here's even the picture I used so you can tell
me from the other seven hundred seven or so Craig Phillips' out
there.
***** This is not an April
Fool's prank. I really mean it. *****
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Bing v Google
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 Barbara Eden never showed her belly-button on "I
Dream of Jeannie.". If you don't believe me just Google it.
Google, Xerox and Rollerblade are more than just synonyms
for search, copy and in-line skate. They are brand names that have become
verbs Googling, Xeroxing and Rollerblading.
Googling accounts for 65% of all the internet
searches in the United Sates. Guess who wants a piece of that?
Yep, Microsoft.
Microsoft has launched an $80M campaign promoting it's
Search Engine called "Bing". MSN tried a Google coup d'état
in 2005 if you remember.
Bing? What's wrong with Google? Microsoft thinks Google
gives you too much information. Something called "Search Overload
Syndrome", which I think they made up because I Googled it. So
Microsoft gives us "Bing, the decision engine.". Microsoft
knows we shouldn't worry our pretty little heads trying to make
decisions for ourselves and is going to look out for us. I feel better
already.
Wait a minute. No, I don't. Maybe I want search
overload. Maybe when I Google something I want the chance
to go somewhere new and exciting. Maybe I want my
interest piqued. I want to be sidetracked by obscure little clues
and go on wonderful adventures at 3AM. I want to go as far and fast and off
course as intelligence, creativity and desire can take me. "The cure
for boredom is curiosity, and there is no cure for
curiosity.". Anyway.
Bing commercials are great. As close to Super Bowl
Commercials as you can get without actually being a Super Bowl Commercial.
Try this one; Hawaii Bing Commercial YouTube . Funny
thing about Bing commercials, they make me want to go Googling.
Now, how many Bing
videos did you watch? Did you link-out to YouTube, watch the
Hawaii Bing video, and come straight home? If you didn't come
right home maybe you suffer from "Search Overload
Syndrome". Don't worry, Bing has a cure for that.
Microsoft did put together
a sexy little toy to compare Bing and Google. http://www.bing-vs-google.com will give you a
side-by-side comparison of search results from Bing and Google. If you Bing
"Bing", Bing Crosby comes up before Bing the Decision
Engine. That doesn't seem biased, but I still don't trust them.
Different results come
up in Bing and Google and ultimately its the one you like best
that will win. CN Consulting comes up 1st in Google, but on the bottom
of page 2 in Bing. There, having completed my evaluation of
Bing I wholeheartedly recommend Google.
Bing, Google, that's your
call, and that's Cocktail Talk.
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Craig Phillips
CN Consulting, Inc.
* Lady, you and that fish
look alot alike.
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