As CEO of MarketAmerica.com.  I am always in the lookout for the latest in technology, social media and online shopping. Always trying to stay ahead of the curve, our team is actively in search for new enhancements and updates to keep up with today's technology. Recently we launched a few apps that are not only cool but also very user-friendly and easy to navigate. I ask you to test them as they are now live for you to use on itunes. I welcome and recommendations or suggestions.

Let's face it, technology is changing right before our eyes. Laptops, netbooks, iPods, HDTV's, mp3's -- they're all here one day and easily replaced the next day. Unfortunately, for a lot of people, we fear getting involved with technology for whatever reason and just ramble aimlessly using an older format, because it gets the job done. In the process, technology has passed us by, where we just throw up our arms and say "I'll catch it on the rebound." Unfortunately, things don't really work this way. New products are released, and yet we stay mired in the same process that we were previously in, while others are off being productive because they made the decision to get involved with technology rather then to let it frustrate them.

Case in point, VHS tapes used to be a nouveau idea. A few years later, they were replaced by today's standard, the DVD. How many of you are still using a VHS player? Not many I'm guessing, because technology forced you to adapt. With that said, earlier today, maTV launched an exciting new feature -- the ability to view videos fullscreen. While online video won't be replacing physical DVD's anytime soon, what it does is with the help of technology, it will give you two options to use for showing videos, helping reduce overall clutter and improving means of delivering video content, regardless of where you're at!

At this point, I would give technology a big pat on the back. It has just done two things. First, physical DVD can now be used at home or when you're away from an Internet connection. Second, with a laptop, an Internet connection and access to marketamerica.com, you can now take the UnFranchise® business plan with you and show other entrepreneurs everywhere the best kept secret!

So who has a laptop and an Internet connection and isn't afraid of technology? By accepting technology and learning just a little bit each day, it will help you learn why catching technology on the rebound only just puts us further behind

Are you ready to embrace technology and see how much easier it can help make your life? Check out this great how to: on watching maTV videos in fullscreen -- guess what, you just learned something new and embraced technology rather than catching it on the rebound!

Keeping Growing,

JR

In recent Wired Magazine I caught a very interesting article The Future of Money, where people can transfer money over Twitter for next to nothing, simply by typing a username and a dollar amount? What if we all had this app in our social network pages like chatterbox, facebook, twitter and marketamerica. Will it change the way we make our payments today? Will you find it more efficient or just simply another app you have to rely on?

From Wired Magazine: Just a decade ago, the idea of moving money that quickly and cheaply would have been ridiculous. Checks took ages to clear. Transferring money from one bank account to another could take days, as banks leisurely handed off funds, levying fees nearly every step of the way. Credit cards made it a little easier to pass money to a friend provided that a friend owned a credit card reader and didn't mind paying a few percentage points in fees or waiting a couple of days for the payment to process.

Ivey got around that problem by using PayPal. Since 1998, PayPal had enabled people to transfer moneyt o each other instantly. For the most part, it powers were confined to eBay, the online auction company that purchased PayPal in 2002. But last summer, PayPal began giving a small group of developers access to its code, allowing then to work with its super-sophisticated transaction framework. Ivey immediately used to link users' Twitter account to their PayPal accounts, and his new company, Twitpay, took off. Today, the service has almost 15,000 users. That may not sound like much, but it sends a message: Moving money, once a function managed only by the biggest companies in the world, is now a feature available to any code jockey. Ivey is just one of the many attacking the payment ecosystem, seeking out new ways small and large to tear down the stronghold the banks and credit cards have built.

SkinPut a whole new meaning to typing.

Ever since I installed a barcode-scanning app on my phone, I see QR codes everywhere—so naturally I wanted one of my own. If you're a barcode-scanning fool, the QR code to the left links to my personal web site. Fun! Here is how to....

A QR ("quick response") code is a square barcode that makes getting URLs, location coordinates, any text or contact information onto a phone fast. With a barcode scanner app installed, you just point your phone's camera at the code to read its contents. Here's what reading this QR code looks like on my Android phone, using an app simply called "Barcode Scanner."

While not the fastest USB drive in existence (read 12MB/sec, write 7MB/sec is slow, actually) as of this writing it is one of only two USB drives in existence that actually transform. While there are 2GB and 4GB versions of this drive that have been around for some time, this is the only 8GB version we've seen. Full specs after the jump. What do you guys think?

Great tips on how to use Twitter and tweet like a pro! Are you ready to start living in the future? Many of you have been asking about the basics of using Twitter and some of the Twitter tags you've seen posted around. Here are few helpful tips for those just getting into using Twitter, a powerful social networking tool, which you can connect with you maChatterbox account!