The video is about realizing how short each moment is. How we have our bucket list of things to do, and we postpone them because, today we’re tired. Because the premiere of The Apprentice is coming up.

This guy, Ric Elias describes his experience while his flight crashed. A lot of realizations can happen in a moment. Some of us won’t get that wake up call so that we can re-align our priorities. In an instant everything can be changed.

He leaves us with a task, to imagine yourself in this same situation he just described. And he asks: “how would you change?” if you had this gift, the miracle of a second chance. What would you get done that you are waiting to get done because you think you’re going to be here for ever?

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Yelp has Check-in Offers, Foursquare has Specials and now we have Google Offers. I like competition and I like options and choices. I have a feeling that this will put a fire under foursquare to improve and innovate once again. I’m a little bored with foursquare actually.

Get your business in all three networks, take ownership of your venues and use the features available for free to offer incentives for existing customers and new customers. It’s a free resource! Why wouldn’t you use them?

They even take a stab at Groupon’s model by saying in the intro video “you don’t even have to buy the offer in advance” you just get it when you are in that location.

Turns out Night Train is a low budget thriller. You can see several scenes where the train is animated as it cruises through the snowy countryside. But that doesn’t take away from the storyline or the big twist.

Pete (Zahn), plays a less than average drunk salesperson while Chloe (Leelee) is a dedicated straight-arrow student on her way home. Conductor of the Train, Miles, played by Danny Glover and the two other characters find themselves in a dilemma when a fourth passenger in the train dies.

The passenger that dies was carrying a box and this box happens to have very valuable items in it. After setting up the plot and story line for the rest of the movie, we embark in the journey to find out what’s in the box, and why each of the three characters wants the box. The conductor, the student and the salesman decide they will keep the box with the jewels and somehow get rid of the body, and walk out unscathed with a fortune.

As with most thrillers, the movie doesn’t quite pan out that way. I don’t want to spoil it because I found this to be a little diamond in the rough. It’s low budget for sure, but the acting is decent and the story line isn’t half bad. At the end, I think the twist will make this short movie worthwhile.

Overall I would rate this at a 3.5 – 4. I like how the film turned out with a dreamy feeling. It remnids me of that video podcast Tiki Bar on iTunes. The movie had this dreamy feeling, and frankly the story seems to come from a fantasy. Something that you’d dream up while waiting, while bored, maybe as you ride in a long train ride.

By the way, Tiki Bar stopped producing a long time ago but you can still watch their episodes from iTunes. They have great video podcasts and great drink recipes

Other Tidbits:
There’s another Night Train movie from 2002 with a totally different subject matter.

I found it interesting that the lady in the train actually looked like a man. Turns out it was a man and for some reason actor Richard O’Brien plays Mrs. Froy.

Definitely engaging. Yea some weak plot points but this was one of the better train movies I’ve seen. lee lee was hott. The Japanese guys were hilarious. The dog was cute. Steve Zahn is always awesome. & Danny Glover plays the moral man with reservations perfectly. egoangel18

A fast-paced mysterious film set on a passenger train speeding through the snow with three main characters and one small wooden box. Danny Glover is the devoted conductor; Steve Zahn is a booze-nipping traveling salesman and Leelee Sobieski is a quiet introverted med student heading home for the holidays.

It’s worth watching in an evening by yourself with nothing better to do.

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RIM is close to its end. Something miraculous needs to happen in that company or else they’ll be scooped up by an investment firm, or another manufacturer that will simply piece out their IP and make Blackberry nothing more than a memory. RIMM (NYSE) was trading at 144 in June 2008, Today it is trading around 13 – 14. That sucks!

Developers get the “alpha”

The new Blackberry 10 is being handed out to developers to entice them to build apps. But even the developer’s model sucks…

While the remarkably unfinished state of the phones may add to RIM’s reputation for delivering products behind schedule and incomplete, Alec Saunders, the company’s vice president of developer relations, said it was necessary to get a “very, very stripped down” version out to developers now to avoid a more serious problem later.

What Alec Saunders doesn’t get is that developers don’t want a shitty platform. They want a good platform, long gone are the days of a buggy os

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I am pretty sure Blackberry/RIM will continue to fade into the abyss of irrelevance in the next 12 – 18 months and eventually somebody is just going to scoop them up at cost and end their painful flailing. 

In the aricle, Alec is quoted…

“The reason why we’re doing this — which is unprecedented for us and it’s quite uncommon in the industry — is because we want to create a wave of application support behind the new BlackBerrys before we bring them to market,” Mr. Saunders said in an interview on Friday at a RIM office here where much of the new operating system was developed. “If we launch without applications, well, it will be slow.”

Really dude? unprecedented…? Blackberry’s playbook might as well have been beta because it broke everytime I tried doing anything with it, it crashed at the slightest attempt to actually play around with it. And, well, you’re right if you launch without apps it will be slow… But if you launch a shitty product it will just be halted. 

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Research in Motion’s BlackBerry 10 Is Unveiled – NYTimes.com

Here’s a video about Boiling Crab food and one of my many visits to the place. This is the “big” location in Garden Grove.

The goal of the Scoop.it SMMOC topic is to help members get visibility into their own posts or videos. You can also see the latest posts from the SMMOC page on my own website.

If you don’t want to add a story, but just read the ones that get posted, you can subscribe to the feed from the scoop.it page. Look for the RSS symbol and add the page to your favorite feed reader.

LoriMoreno – @LoriMoreno
One love, one heart, one destiny. ~ Bob Marley

Great message, great song. Let’s get together and feel alright!…

LoriMoreno – @LoriMoreno
Multiply Your Reach and Supercharge Your Retweets with Triberr! http://t.co/nXkzLMWl via @DanielSharkov

Two of my favorite people on Twitter talk about this post so it must be good. A good article actually about using Triberr.

Vi – @vi_rox
Great panel tonight discussing Social Gaming – @rivvid @gamingangel @betterworks @zamland for @smc_la @ingdirectlacafe #smcla

Interesting, I must see what this #SMCLA is all about. Maybe meet Vi in real life soon.

Daria – @msdcarey
Sometimes I want things to go much faster, other times I want things to slow down. At this moment I have no idea which is which

This is how I feel a lot lately, and it’s only Tuesday. We can only do what we can do right Daria!?

Mitch Devine – @DevineLines
Thank you, Amber! RT @AmberCadabra: Great time with #LinkedOC tonight. Thank you all, and thanks @BryanElliott for the amazing hospitality.

Everyone was tweeting about this event. Sad to have to miss it, but client work has taken up all my time. That along with some very exciting news coming soon… And some new projects and finally wrapping up the beginning of the year stuff.

Angel Xie – @AngelXie
Build a database of everyone’s heartbeat and health infor RT @gigaom: Every heartbeat tells a story. Why not track it? http://t.co/ADzYbQBB

This sounds interesting. With this kind of data over a long period of time and across a large enough sample you can probably start predicting and finding out about heart disease and abnormalities really early on.

Raghavendra Swamy – @bennishiroor
#Google has taken on the location based social network #Foursquare with the launch of http://t.co/3xSlc0xI

Turns out that Google is planning on doing something more useful than Google Places with all that data it has been gathering on you. It’s called Schemer and it’s in private beta right now – https://www.schemer.com/

Amalik Amriou – @amalik
#storytelling vs. Corporate Speak. #digitalmarketing #socialmedia #contentmarketing #infographic http://t.co/VLnFSF6x

Great infographic, and it is posted on Pinterest. Go figure! I’m starting to see more and more infographics in Pinterest. Seems like a logical place for them since it’s such a visual place.

Amanda Wernick – @FUNomenalMe
RT @ABC Philadelphia Man Rescues Squirrel Stuck in Bag of Pistachios http://t.co/Av7Bnuf6 < @BillLublin. Did this make Ur evening news? =)

Amanda always tweeting to make you smile.

John Chow – @JohnChow
@jeffreyskang Hell no! I ordered my 27″ iMac with the normal 4GB RAM and then upgraded to 16GB afterward.

And that’s how you should always buy apple computers. Buy the least amount of RAM then upgrade with third party RAM. Cheaper and just as good. No sense in spending hundreds of dollars for something that costs a fraction… oh wait…

Jeff Hester – @jeffhester
The end of Dropbox? RT @DarinRMcClure: Go Google! Go Google Drive! http://t.co/7RjaLy55

Definitely not the end of Dropbox or other cloud services as much as Gmail didn’t and hasn’t marked the end of Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and exchange. Extremely useful, incredibly valuable, but not easy for everyone to adopt as early as we do.

With all the recent “issues” and complaints about Google, I see this as an uphill battle for GOOG.

MaryAnne Wendt  – @maryannewendt
I love when the audio & video feed is not synced on the news. It’s like watching a Bruce Lee movie with the lips not matching.

This happens to me a lot on Netflix, not just the news. I think it’s going to be a more prevalent problem in the future as more and more people move to online TV & shows.

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Before I watched The Apprentice, the chatter was already going on in Twitter. That’s a bummer for the west coast people because people in Twitter give us spoilers. So I thought why not capture some of this. Then I watched the show.

Tony Starr * – @mrmistr
Aubrey said she was a mini trump, what a dumbass. id still hit that #theapprentice

Just like I thought before. Aubrey just needs a few slices of humble pie. Then she can rock the house. Until then she seems to keep saying some pretty provocative things.

If @aubreyoday would just tone it down a little and strategize more instead of just opening up her mouth all the time. She’d have a better time. I still root for her. Hoping she wins.

Steven S – @Stevie_Smalls
#Arsenio is the man #apprentice.

No comment. @arsenioofficial seems to have a good handle on things.

Jared David – @Thats_Jareeed
I just kinda like watching #theapprentice for some reason

I just kinda do too, @Thats_Jareeed.

I started watching it more because you can actually learn quite a bit. I know it’s edited and manipulated to make us feel certain way. But if you try to pay attention to what actually gets done in those short week challenges, that’s quite an accomplishment every week.

Hasn’t started on the West Coast yet.

T.C. Galltin – @TCGalltin
Arsenio and Aubrey Round 2. #TheApprentice

I think that Arsenio is secretly in Love with Aubrey!

Aubrey O’Day – @AubreyODay
Do people not understand competition?It is all I. If u don’t show ur ability no one else will..No1 was on that show for friendship, come on!

This is well said. In the show, I think you’d be a fool to think anyone is your friend. There might be some amount of mutual respect and cooperation as the herd thins, but this ends quickly.

I’m surprised where the show is at right now. I think there have been some mistakes on who’s been fired and who’s still here but I’m still rooting for Aubrey.

Bryan Holdcroft – @Creezy_taughtme
Somehow, someway my father and I end up watching Celebrity Apprentice every Sunday.

Seems to be the case with a lot of people.

•• cmputrbluu •• – @cmputrbluu
RT @Gronith: lol its funny how much respect I lose for the celebs on #Apprentice by the end of the season

I know right!? – Who from this season has left and you still have respect for? I think I might be able to say that Paul Sr. from Orange County Choppers. or even Dee Snider. But this is very often the case.

I thought this was just for once or twice that it happened, but Lisa lsot a lot of my respect after this season.

Plain Jane – @BasqueInIt
Aubrey is mad because she’s uglier than Diana… It’s okay Aubrey you’re ugly, be proud of those grotesque features you possess #Apprentice

Plain Jane – @BasqueInIt
Aubrey is mad because she’s uglier than Diana… It’s okay Aubrey you’re ugly, be proud of those grotesque features you possess #Apprentice

Allie – @allieiswired
The Celebrity Apprentice 2012 Episode 10 ‘Winning by a Nose’ Recap 4/22/12 | @allieiswired: http://t.co/ShUAaSQ2 : @clayaiken @ApprenticeNBC

Another recap…

All in all, I ended up watching the espisode late, after West Coast time, but I like how it ended. I’m glad that Aubrey won… But seriously she need to strategize a little more. She makes herself too vulnerable and relies too much on her power. A little more finesse and she’ll be a true rockstar.

Also, here’s Aubrey’s Website.

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I've heard this now a few times. Meetup.com Is that the network is the best real "social" network. I see it as connecting real life interests with virtual communities and truly bridging the geographical gaps.

When you realize that there are other people interested in the same things as you are, and you can likely find a group of them meeting on a regular basis, within 10 or 15 miles from your location, that's cool. This has never happened before at this scale. These people are meeting, quickly online and then in real life. And trust me! they're not just tweeting about it, they're not just blogging about it.

Take for example even SMMOC is fueled by meetup.com. Meetup.com is quietly growing and will be shaking things up quite a bit. Connecting people in real life, that's where it all comes down to.

That's powerful. That's a strong network. And my thoughts on #Foursquare is that #Fsq is cool but in comparing the two, Meetup.com vs Foursquare?

They're very different so I wouldn't compare them much. Meetup.com joins you with like-minded individuals in a comfortable group setting. Foursquare in the other hand tells you which places are the happening spots around your current location.

Cheryl Hawley – @CherylAHawley
To find events in your area do you favor @foursquare or @meetup? #smmoc

I thought this was a great topic of discussion. Regarding a choice between the two, well they’re really both two different things. Meetup is really good at bridging the digital knowledge and virtual relationshiphs into real in life meetings.

I’ve met some really great people at different meetups. But like @24x7media said, the people attending all have a common interest.

Foursquare in the other hand is good at telling you what type of places might be good to visit because they are trendy. Or at least trendy within social media circles, scratch that… at least within those that play Foursquare. In the grand scheme of things Foursquare isn’t that big. But it’s getting there…

Jeff Hester – @jeffhester
RT @DarinRMcClure: Time to lurk the #SMMOC hashtag & enjoy the cutting edge thought on the social space that happens there… Good Morni …

See!? Everybody does it, so you might as well do it and next time you have to miss #SMMOC just lurk. Use the hashtag (as covered in today’s meetup) to follow what people are talking. You can choose to participate or just watch.

William Blumberg – @WilliamBlumberg
Here are some operators for Twitter http://t.co/JuwRRj0T #SMMOC

Not the smooth operator kind, but the Advanced Search Operators. As mentioned in the meeting today, these are called Boolean. You can find more info about Boolean searching with this basic intro to boolean searching on the internet page http://www.internettutorials.net/boolean.asp .

The basics boolean searching is that you can pick a search that has multiple parameters, perhaps joining two different sets of data, or excluding a section of the data by using a filter and excluding certain terms.

Bob (Robert) Watson – @TopBrokerOC
One way to totally irritate your customer #ATT is to throttle back my iPhone data speed. #SMMOC

AT&T… You really don’t want to upset @TopBrokerOC… He’s got Klout and a room full of people every Saturday morning. Just cut the crap and let people have unlimited data, really. This is just greedy!

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Alberto Cairo’s clinics in Afghanistan used to close down during active fighting. Now, they stay open. At TEDxRC2 (the RC stands for Red Cross/Red Crescent), Cairo tells the powerful story of why — and how he found humanity and dignity in the midst of war.

There Are no Scraps of Men.

Use cases:
* Scan QR code and send info to your Chrome browser.
* As you are reading an article, you walk into your office and want to finish it on your desktop.

Ideally, you could choose different “profiles” or users to send it to, but directly to the browser. So if you need to send a website to someone, you could just send it directly to their Chrome browsing session.

Wouldn’t that be cool and useful?

I guess a rudimentary way of doing this right now is with a web service, like readitlater or evernote or something like that. The only problem with that is the couple of additional steps of sending it to the service. Then typing in some description for it, and then retrieving the website when you get to the desktop.

Another way would be to have your browsers synchronized and save the article to a temporary bookmarks folder.

I guess I’ll have to try this and see how it works.

A yellowfin tuna product used to make dishes like sushi and sashimi sold at restaurants and grocery stores has been linked with an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened more than 100 people in 20 states and the District of Columbia, federal health authorities warned today.The Food and Drug Administration said 116 illnesses have been reported, including 12 people who have been hospitalised. No deaths have been reported.

via Tuna linked to salmonella outbreak in 20 states with New York being the worst hit.