Eric Braden Zimmett
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Penn State Football Opens Meet and Greet Series at The Field
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Penn State football players filled the floor, shaking hands, posing for photos and sipping The Field Burger & Tap’s famous shakes on Monday night. The first night in a limited […]
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Flyswatters, Frisbees and Teamwork Fuel ACRES Amazing Race at Tussey Mountain
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Putt-Putt golf with flyswatters to help neurodivergent adults in Centre County Sounds like a Mad Libs entry, but that’s exactly what played out Sunday at Tussey Mountain during the fourth […]
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Eric Zimmett’s Tech Talk: The Death of Physical Storage
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It wasn’t long ago that we stored files on floppy disks and CDs. After that came USB flash drives and portable hard drives. The next wave of computer storage and file backup is the cloud – and it will mean the death of physical storage, including our cherished DVD collection.
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Eric Zimmett’s Tech Talk: The Facebook
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Launched in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, Facebook sought to connect friends and classmates, drawing inspiration from Friendster. Its platform soon expanded to Stanford, Columbia and Yale, then onto more than 800 college networks.
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Eric Zimmett’s Tech Talk: Pandora and the Evolution of Radio
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Pandora, the leading Internet radio service, is the evolution of FM radio. Its customized radio plays songs it knows we’ll like – it learns our tastes – using Pandora’s Music Genome Project.
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Eric Zimmett’s Tech Talk: Foursquare and Location-Based Services for your Business
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In marketing school it is taught that the purpose of a business is to create a customer. One new way has emerged in recent years to specifically identify new customers, or at least those who opt to check-in.
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Eric Zimmett’s Tech Talk: Get Ready for TV 2.0
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Streaming television services like Netflix and Hulu Plus are gaining momentum, moving along the adoption curve – working their way through the early majority – still years ahead of technological laggards, Eric Zimmett writes.
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Eric Zimmett Tech Talk: 5 Things Small Business Owners Should Be Doing
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In his inaugural tech column for StateCollege.com, Eric Zimmett gives you five things small business owners should be doing.