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Lunch Is on Me and My Cell Phone

NTEN

As I sat in the Grand Junction Colorado airport -- which is charming -- I had a conundrum: the contents of my wallet came to a grand total of 72 cents.* In Pocket Change , author Dan Macasi points us to osaifu keitai , the Japanese phrase that means cell-phone wallet. Paying by mobile is already a done deal in Japan and Europe.

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Socialize the Sign-In - And Never Forget Your Password Again

Connection Cafe

If people are signed into your site, then you can offer them different content based on who they are or what they are interested in ( see my post from last week about segmenting - the principles can apply to content on your website as well). So please, no phone. This is a more compelling experience for visitors to your website.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

We need real competition instead of the cable and phone company duopoly. These phone and cable companies control 97 percent of the residential broadband market. Consumers in South Korea and Japan can get broadband speeds reaching 1 Gigabit per second (Gbps) for less than the monthly price a U.S. We should look to other models.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. It is a new type of content for us that will hopefully inspire you to think beyond the day-to-day use of technology to the ways that technology can transform our approach to solving big social problems. Technology for Good Report. The report is by our Rebecca Chao.

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[VIDEO] Using WhatsApp to Increase Engagement with Multicultural Communities

Bloomerang

So if you have to leave early or maybe you just want to review the content later on, don’t worry. And it’s free with a phone plan. Well, probably not obvious because we have a global audience, maybe someone from Japan doesn’t know where Stanford is.” So WhatsApp uses your phone number.