[This is an update on the disappointing conditions I recently experienced at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel.] Dear Ms. Hess, Thank you for taking the time to respond to our electronic survey and providing us with valuable feedback regarding your recent experience with us. Please accept my sincerest apologies that we were not able to exceed your expectations during your stay. It is quite embarrassing to read about the state of your room.

Passionate fans go out of their way to share their enthusiasm with the world, sometimes even going so far as to alter their Twitter avatars to take on the likeness of or support their favorite artist, sports team, or social media site. We’ve already seen sites like Twibbon allow users to rally around causes by updating their avatars, but a new service powered by Twitter photo sharing site, Tweetphoto, called Fantar , could prove be to be the easiest way for brands, bands, and celebrities to rally fan support on Twitter.

If you’re new here and find this article useful, please consider subcribing to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!One of the first problems new users have upon joining Twitter is figuring out who to follow. And even power users who’ve been using the service for a while appreciate being turned on to other Twitter users with similar interests.Member-created review site Lunch is launching what could shape up to be a nice solution to this problem with “Twitter Lists,” a way for users to create their

Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media , a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO. You can follow him on Twitter @leftthebox and get his newsletter . Social media marketing and the businesses that utilize it have become more sophisticated. More small businesses are beginning to understand how to best leverage online tools to build a community and …

When you want to do a one-on-one video chat with someone else, what do you use? The first thing that probably comes to mind is Skype . While Skype is a great service, it isn’t practical for when you just want to get a video chat going (both sides must have the software). Plus, they’ve got some legal troubles brewing . Web conferencing system and even Google chat via video require plugins or some getting used to.

OrganiseTungle Makes Cross-Calendar Scheduling SimpleBy Jason Fitzpatrick on October 1, 2009 at 7:00 AM If you’re looking for a web-based application for scheduling meetings, you’ll find no shortage. Want that application to sync to common calendar applications like Google Calendar, Outlook and iCal? Prior to Tungle you were out of luck.Tungle combines the best features of a variety of calendar syncing and meeting scheduling tools and rolls them all into one.

Samir Balwani is an emerging technology strategist at Morpheus Media , a firm specializing in Social Marketing, SEM, and SEO. You can follow him on Twitter @leftthebox and get his newsletter . Social media marketing and the businesses that utilize it have become more sophisticated. More small businesses are beginning to understand how to best leverage online tools to build a community and recognize that engagement and interaction are the foundations of social marketing, but most don’t know what’s next.

Over the last ten months, Facebook Connect has flourished as a tool to not only minimize login and sign-up minutiae, but to allow developers and content creators to add a social link to their sites and services. Yesterday, Facebook introduced Translations for Facebook Connect as a way to make site translation faster and easier. In blog post , Facebook also introduced two additional tools: the Facebook Connect Wizard and Playground as a way to make implementing Facebook Connect easier for developers and content creators alike.

AT&T realizes that mobile applications are a huge opportunity. After all, they do have the largest and most popular platform, the iPhone app store, solely on their network. But now they’re looking to improve their mobile app and widget presence. Oh, and they’re doing it in a big way: they’ve just acquired mobile app developer Plusmo . Plusmo, for those who are not familiar, is a mobile widget developer and platform.

One of the first problems new users have upon joining Twitter is figuring out who to follow. And even power users who’ve been using the service for a while appreciate being turned on to other Twitter users with similar interests. Member-created review site Lunch is launching what could shape up to be a nice solution to this problem with “Twitter Lists,” a way for users to create their own lists of Twitterers in particular areas or topics and include editorial content about what makes them follow-worthy.