Buy American? President Obama bought French game Just Dance 3 for Christmas

According to a tweet from French multinational computer gaming company Ubisoft, United States President Obama obtained their game Just Dance 3 as a family Christmas present. So much for Buy American! What's that about Do what I say, but not what I do....

The Ubisoft tweet also caught the attention of the venerable Forbes with this headline
"President Barack Obama Endorses Ubisoft's Just Dance 3 Videogame For Christmas". Forbes missed the obvious Buy American contradiction.

Pay with a Tweet, now there's a novel approach

Got an offer to download some music samples by paying with a tweet. That's a novel and innovative approach to drumming up business. The Pay with a Tweet site explains the philosophy and technology. The "price" also gets you a 30% voucher in the company's online store.

Here's the URL: http://www.analog-factory.com/?page_id=575

The Twittering of the Search World by David Mattison is online

My latest article for Searcher magazine is available for free in its September 2010 issue: "The Twittering of the Search World".

Searcher magazine cover, September 2010

Testing, testing Twitter and Facebook tweet and status updates

Just set up access to my @10kyearblog Twitter and my Facebook accounts from my David Mattison blog, so let's see if this works good.