From the monthly archives:

July 2009

When a Taco Truck Meets Twitter

by Justin Levy on July 29, 2009

There has been a lot of buzz around Kogi BBQ, a Korean BBQ taco truck in LA that has used Twitter (@KogiBBQ) to create a phenomenon that produces lines that stretch around street corners to wait for the truck to arrive.  While I travel through LA around once a month, I have yet to stay [...]

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Twitter Homepage Refresh

by Justin Levy on July 28, 2009

Since many of you probably use a third-party application like TweetDeck or Seesmic, you may not log into the Twitter homepage that often anymore.  Well, it’s worth taking a look as Twitter has finally pushed out a refreshed homepage.
Notice that the bottom bar has 3 lines of trending topics?  That’s because the homepage now display [...]

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How I Use Delicious

by Justin Levy on July 28, 2009

Recently I’ve been asked a lot more about social bookmarking and the way in which I use it.  My social bookmarking platform-of-choice is Delicious.  I’ve used it since it’s early days and continue to find it to be the best tool for managing my bookmarks.  There are several other choices but Delicious remains the most [...]

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Google News Should Integrate Twitter Search

by Justin Levy on July 27, 2009

One of the primary websites that I check throughout the day is Google News.  I have been in love with this website as a source of news since it was released several years ago.  It allows me to quickly see what’s going on in the world and if a particular story interests me, I can [...]

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Tips for Eating Healthy While Workshifting

by Justin Levy on July 19, 2009

This was originally posted on workshifting.com but thought it might be useful and interesting over here too.  If you haven’t checked out workshifting.com yet, please subscribe and let me know what you think.
As a web commuter we spend most of our time in cafes, airports, hotels, flying, driving, or a number of other places and modes of [...]

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10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media

by Justin Levy on July 14, 2009

This post is a collaboration between Mashable’s Summer of Social Good charitable fundraiser and Max Gladwell’s “10 Ways” series. The post is being simultaneously published across more than 100 blogs.

Social media is about connecting people and providing the tools necessary to have a conversation. That global conversation is an extremely powerful platform for spreading [...]

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Are We Connected Yet?

by Justin Levy on July 13, 2009

One of the things that is most important to me is the meaningful relationships that I’m able to build through this blog,Prime Cuts (my foodie blog) and the various networks that I’m active on.  Making connections and being helpful to you is very important to me.  Every day I strive to provide information that you’ll [...]

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Being the Chief of Stuff

by Justin Levy on July 12, 2009

If you ever read this blog, follow me on Twitter or any of the other number of networks I’m on, you’ll quickly realize that I am fascinated by anything that’s behind-the-scenes.  For example, I love that with New Marketing Labs I get to hang out with really cool companies at their offices.  As I’ve said before, [...]

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Thanks to my friend Jason Moore-Brown (@mobomedia) I got a chance to test out a few products from Incipio.  Incipio makes all kinds of awesome cases and other accessories for your favorite electronics such as laptops, BlackBerry, iPhone, Kindle, and many many more.  I really enjoyed the laptop and iPhone cases that I’ve been testing [...]

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The Yellow Pages Equal Spam

by Justin Levy on July 11, 2009

Yesterday I stopped by my mailbox and to my surprise there was a Yellow Pages book sitting there waiting for me.  I always ignore the stack of them that appears throughout the year by the mailboxes but this time it was actually insidet of my mailbox.  Seeing it sitting there and knowing that I actually had [...]

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