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Yehoodi, the #1 Swing Dance Website on the Net, Gets a Web 2.0 Facelift!

Posted on October 3, 2010 by

On January 4, 2010, Yehoodi entered a new chapter in our history with a whole new website, built from the ground up. Our goal was to make sure that our site continued to serve the lindy hop community through providing necessary news and information , helping people find dance events anywhere in the world ,…

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Country Music: Many who like hip-hop like this (Facebook doesn’t lie)

Posted on July 12, 2010 by

Perhaps Facebook might want to tweak their "like" algorhythm a bit. Just sayin. Or maybe there's a wider market for "hick-hop" than I know?

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Fan Me on the Facebook if You Feel Like

Posted on April 25, 2010 by

It doesn't look like this Facebook thingee is going away anytime soon, so might as well jump on the bandwagon with a Facebook Fan Page. If you like what you read here, please fan Rikomatic.com by clicking on this image on the left column.  For great justice.

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A Sad Reminder of the State of Digital Iliteracy in the World

Posted on February 11, 2010 by

Apparently many, many people don't know how to use the address bar on their web browsers.  This entertains, alarms and depresses me all at the same time.  From my friend Matt Stratton: Somehow a ton of idiot Facebookers who apparently log onto Facebook by doing Google searches all landed on this ReadWriteWeb post (must have…

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EnerCities: first Facebook “serious game” on sustainable urban development

Posted on December 8, 2009 by

 Dylan Nagel of Paladin Studios sends out the news that the public beta version of EnerCities has been released, reportedly the first "serious game" to be hosted on Facebook. With support from the European Commission, the goal of our project is to raise energy awareness among young people around the world through the gameplay. I…

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Facebook vs. Yehoodi: Social network deathmatch

Posted on November 23, 2009 by

Here at Yehoodi Central, we are busy working on polishing and refining the cool features of our new website Yehoodi 3.0 (beta).  We are pretty confident that it will take a to a new level our already successful swing dance community website. I think it can't come too soon.  As several people have related to…

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The Digital Quaker: What it means to be a Friend in the Information Society

Posted on July 26, 2009 by

This morning at Meeting for Worship at the Friends Meeting of Brooklyn, I was thinking about how analog our worship services are.  There's almost no modern technology involved at all except for electric lights and maybe an oscillating fan in the summer.  There's no amplifier, microphones, television or computer monitors, or other digital technology found…

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Virtual tributes to swing dance legend Frankie Manning on Twitter, FaceBook, Yehoodi, etc

Posted on April 27, 2009 by

As news about Frankie Manning's passing spreads around the world today, I witnessed an explosion of surprise, grief, and tearful remembrance live on the internet.  It was like being surrounded by the voices of hundreds and hundreds of Frankie's friends and fans from around the globe in a collective, ever-changing memorial.  It's a fitting tribute…

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Brooklyn Museum launches “1stFans”: socially networked museum membership

Posted on December 24, 2008 by

Will Cary, the membership manager at the Brooklyn Museum, announced earlier this month an interesting way for a wider population of people to support the Brooklyn Museum through their new "1stFan" program.  Described as "socially networked museum membership," 1stFan provides a way for potentially hundreds more people to support the museum through an annual $20…

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