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Social Network: Users Not Welcome

Posted on July 21, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Michael Durwin, Social Network, Web 2.0, advertising | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

I’ve recently discovered that I will soon be a father. I was recently a husband and previous to that a fiancee. At the beginning of this category-changing trip, I, along with my fiancee, decided to sign up for theKnot.com. It’s a great site, we found alot of helpful info there from photographers, to the ceremony [...]

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Successful Update of my iPhone Firmware and Playing Super Monkey Ball

Posted on July 11, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Michael Durwin, Social Network, Web 2.0, blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

I could go back months, where the history of the update began. That would be the announcement of Apps and games. But let’s just stick to the technical stuff shall we?
The story of the successful update of my Gen 1 iPhone began Thursday afternoon around 2pm. I was on Twitter as usual and someone (I [...]

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BMW Shoots Viral Piece, Does it Hit or Miss?

Posted on June 25, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Consumer Generated Content, DVD, Facebook, Michael Durwin, MySpace, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, YouTube, advertising, blog, consumer marketing, iPhone, movies, new media, viral marketing | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Earlier this year BMW launched a viral video to promote the launch of it’s new model in the U.S. The video was released as a documentary following the stories of a small Bavarian town named Oberpfaffelbachen. The town’s citizens include a stunt driver, over zealous police chief, event promoter and mayor, trying to save the [...]

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LinkedIn Down

Posted on June 18, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Browser incompatibility, Mac, Mashable, Michael Durwin, Social Network, Web 2.0, new media | Tags: , , , |

LinkedIn is down. Another web2.0 error!

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Facebook changes my password without permission

Posted on June 5, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Michael Durwin, Social Network, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

I received the most annoying email today from Facebook. At first I thought it was some shady company just trying to steal my login info but when I tried to log into Facebook I found out it was legit:
Hey Michael,
We have reset your Facebook account password for security reasons. You will need to use [...]

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Cease and Desist Received: No Portfolio Work Allowed

Posted on May 12, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Michael Durwin, Social Network, Web 2.0 | Tags: , , , , , |

2 years ago I was hired by a video production house to create several animations for an infomercial for Kaballah Center International, Inc. Since they were completed I’ve been showing them off as part of my portfolio. In early March I decided to expand the reach of my portfolio by setting up the video hosting [...]

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Mashable Down

Posted on April 4, 2008. Filed under: Boston, Mashable, Michael Durwin, Social Network | Tags: |

 The Mashable web site is down! It is currently sporting the following error:Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3081728352 bytes) in /var/www/mashable.com/trunk/wp-settings.php on line 241 

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The Durwin Report

Posted on August 28, 2007. Filed under: Boston, FUSE/ideas, Michael Durwin, Social Network, The Durwin Report |

So I’ve been convinced by my company to start a blog all about social networking. If you look way down my page you’ll see a badge to join the Durwin Report. It’s all you need to know, or at least all I know, about social networks, virtual worlds, web 2.0 technologies and everything in between. [...]

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MBTA (the Boston T) technological failure

Posted on August 14, 2007. Filed under: 495, ATM, Alewife, B Line, Beacon Hill, Boston, Cambridge, Charlie Card, DVR, Davis Square, Green Line, Harvard, MBTA, Mac, Park Street Station, Red Line, Red Sox, Somerville, The T, iPhone |

I love new technology. I have a DVR and an HD TV. I have a high end Mac and an iPhone. I love when others adopt new technology to make things easier and cheaper.
What I hate is when technology fails. What I hate more is when there is no backup plan.
I had an interesting trip [...]

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The Day the Music (Television Network) Died

Posted on August 11, 2007. Filed under: 50 Cent, Boston, Friday Night Videos, KISS, MTV, Michael Durwin, Paris Hilton, Web 2.0, web site down |

Is MTV recreating itself? Of just making room for more Paris Hilton news? The television networked that changed American culture through music videos and then stopped doing it, play music videos that is, has a “site down for maintenance” page up. I’m old enough to remember KISS taking off their make-up, MTV’s predecessor, Friday Night [...]

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