Eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, the terrorist leader Bane arrives in Gotham City, pushing it and its police force to their limits, forcing its former hero Batman to resurface after taking the fall for Harvey Dent’s crimes.

Director: Christopher Nolan

The Avengers

Nick Fury and the international agency S.H.I.E.L.D. bring together a team of super humans to form The Avengers to help save the Earth from Loki & his various membered army.

Director: Joss Whedon

The Amazing Spider-Man

Teenager Peter Parker grapples with both human problems and amazing super-human crises.

Director: Marc Webb

Underworld: Awakening

When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrioress Selene leads the battle against humankind.

Director: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein

Skyfall

Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Director: Sam Mendes

Wrath of the Titans

Perseus embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, who has been targeted for capture by his traitorous son, Ares, and his brother, Hades.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman

Men in Black III

Agent J travels in time to MIB’s early years in the 1960s, to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

The G.I. Joe team faces off against Zartan, his accomplices, and the world leaders he has under his influence.

Director: Jon M. Chu

The Expendables 2

Mr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.

Director: Simon West

Ice Age: Continental Drift

Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.

Director: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier

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Optimism – got to be more positive in thinking and in deed to attract positive energy. Money begets money… so goodness begets good things.

But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. – 2 Chronicles 15:7

Balance – Although I feel bad with all the imbalances that I had tolerated in my past years, it’s never good to dwell in the past. Here’s a cliche that I’d like to follow — too much of anything is unhealthy.

I feel blessed that even though there were tons of hurtful situations and/or happenings in the soon-to-be previous year, I was able to move without carrying the bad feelings into the coming year.

Surely, 2012 will be a year of taking risks because I’d be ‘following my heart’ most of the time. (Okay, that’s just my favorite quotation. I’m actually inspired by Seth Godin’s line on his post about failure and mistake: Go ahead, fail.)

Taking risks may lead me to failures but I am not scared because I know that there will be lessons to learn from all the experiences.

This is very sad news for me as one of many amazed Apply users. I know this time will come for him but I wasn’t really expecting it this soon. Part of me is happy because I know he left this world happy by leaving us with wonderful things that change how we live or life.

In this post, I would like to share news, articles, books, pictures, and videos about Steve Jobs. Reading about him and his great work has inspired me over time. So I just want to share these to everyone.

Quotes

“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”

“We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.”

“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important…

There is no reason not to follow your heart.”

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.”

“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.”

“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they’ve had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”

“I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.”

Videos

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Steve Jobs demos Apple Macintosh, 1984

Forbes Editors On Great Steve Jobs Moments

Not to mention his presentations during Apple keynotes — watch and learn how to present like a PRO!

Pictures

Books

Inside Steve’s Brain – The first and only book (so far) that I’ve read about Steve Jobs. If you’re interested to know Steve Jobs’ secrets for his success on Apple company, then this is definitely a good read! You’ll also love the bulleted list of lessons at the end of each chapter for quick recap.

There are other ‘Steve Jobs’ books that I wanted to read, but Walter Isaacson’s “iSteve: The Book of Jobs” is on my top list.

News and Articles

Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985

Steve Jobs: The Wilderness, 1985-1997

Steve Jobs: The Return, 1997-2011 – How Steve Jobs Saved Apple

Steve Jobs: Remembering the Dissatisfied Man

Apple Commercials

Think Different

Big Brother (’1984′ Apple Macintosh Commercial)

Thank you very much for all the awesome inventions that you shared to the world! You’re always be a source of inspiration for all of us. Rest in peace Steve Jobs!

Source: GOALS! How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Then You Ever Thought Possible by Brian Tracy

It was November last year when I first heard about Crowdbooster. They were very new and getting an account from them was quite frustrating. I had to wait for their approval after I sent my email requesting for an account. But looking back now, I can say that it was worth waiting for.

Crowdbooster has a lot of cool stuff and listed below are my favorite features:

1. Colorful Tweets Analytics

Who wouldn’t fall for this fancy and yet easy to understand analytics? You can see the total number of impressions and re-tweets at one glance! You can also tell by the size of the circle which tweets got replies.

Aside from the fancy looking UI, there are other useful tools for checking your tweets performance. There’s this Date of Tweets, report range into weekly, monthly, all recorded tweets, and/or custom date. Viewing the tweets on a table form is possible, too. Just click the Table and Crowdbooster will list down all your tweets according to the date you specified.

2. Cute Follower Growth Chart

TwitterCounter has it. SproutSocial has it. Hootsuite has it. The list can go on but seriously! This is the cutest chart that I’ve seen so far — simple but appealing. Another thing that I like about Crowdbooster’s follower growth is the daily reports of increase or decrease in followers. I find this useful especially if I want to know what exactly caused the increase or decrease in my followers.

3. Exportable Reports

Though I don’t have this feature in my personal account, I was given a chance to see an exported report from Crowdbooster. It basically put the report you see in the site dashboard to MS Excel – time when tweets were posted, the actual tweets, replies, retweets, and impressions. If you’re into measuring social media marketing efforts, Crowdbooster reports will make your job easy.

4. List of Top Retweeters

If you’re like me, you probably want to know who your top retweeters are. It may seem like a vanity meter but the point of knowing your retweeters is for you to take that step of thanking them and to convert that Twitter connection into human connection.

5. List of Influential Followers

I like checking out profiles of influential Tweeps because I learn a lot from them. I get to know good sources of articles/blogs, to follow more high-ranking Tweeps, to learn the tools they use, and a lot more. With Crowdbooster, I get to know my very own prominent followers! I don’t have to search around the net and take the risk of getting leading Tweeps but don’t share the same interests with me.

6. Crowdbooster Recommendation

Know the Best Time for YOU to Tweet! Crowdbooster analyze the performance of your previous tweets and give you suggestions of time when your followers are most active and schedule your tweets during that time.

That’s all for today, I hope you find my post useful. I’ll make sure to cover other social media tools and dashboard that I’ve been playing around lately.

So when I first saw this picture at Engadget live blogging, I was caught off-guard and thought I clicked the wrong link!

It’s a verrry nice surprise to see Steve Jobs though! This is the first time I attended an Apple’s product launch (virtually, as in online) and it was an experience both fulfilling and unforgettable.

I couldn’t imagine the feeling if I was physically present while watching Steve Jobs with his latest Apple-of-the-eye iPad 2!

But it would certainly double my excitement over the awesome iPad2 because of Steve Jobs! Hah! Gotta problem with that?

Apple Marketing Magic

Since I started reading (no, devouring) any stuff I could find about marketing and social media marketing, the one thing that always seemed to shine among the rest is Apple — and its magic used on marketing each new product.

I once read an article about Steve Jobs and Apple. “Launch like Steve Jobs: 7 Ways to Build Buzz for Your Next Product Launch”

#1: Put the Focus on the People, Not the Product!

This line has more impact than anything I had read. Specific questions must always have answers.

What is it for me? What is it for the consumer? How can this product help improve everybody’s lives?

I know! Almost all marketers do – would like to do that! So what’s with Apple? How do they apply this strategy? Here, I tried spotting examples from iPad 2 launch:

1. Showing video of how people are using iPad.

• iPad for schools and hospitals – how iPad is helping Autistic children.
• Doctors spending more time with their patients, showing medical results via iPad.
• Read, Write, and Connect to the internet anytime and anywhere – coffee shops, restaurants, camping trips, and may more.

After watching about the iPad, I couldn’t help but think, “How could iPad 2 get more awesome than that?”

2. Demo time for iPad 2 new cameras – See how this dual camera iPad would blow your mind.

• Now it’s easy-and-possible to do FaceTime call from iPad 2 to iPhone and iPad 2 to Mac.
• See how wonderful interactive calls are. You just don’t hear your love ones’ voices — but with iPad, you can also see their faces in real time.

3. Consumer Focused Apps – iMovie & GarageBand

• Notice how Apple aims to make video editing as easy as typing and making music as easy as blogging! (Who could say no to this deal? With only $4.99 each, everyone can enjoy editing videos and creating music!)

4. Positioning iPad as post-PC devices.

• Apple’s vision is for tablets to be easier to use than personal computers. And surely, that is iPad’s purpose because it’s way easy to bring a tablet anywhere than a desktop computer (of course!), laptop and netbooks.

Watch Steve Jobs’ iPad 2 Presentation on iTunes’ Apple Keynotes

How about you? Did you see some of Apple’s “Put the Focus on the People, Not the Product!” marketing strategies, aside from I listed above? Please share it with us in the comment box!

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So… you probably want to buy an iPad2 now?

No? Hmm, you might want to find out about its Technical Specifications first. Or check out iPad 2 video here.

Socialbakers.com — Previously known as Facebakers.com, Socialbakers.com provides interesting stats about Facebook users and arranges them by countries, pages, brands, apps and developers, and advertisers from different locations.

CheckFacebook.com — Here’s another awesome website that provides in-depth information about Facebook users from a certain country. CheckFacebook.com gives the demographics data (including the different brackets of ages) of Facebook users in one specified country.

Tweetdeck?

Seesmic?

Co-Tweet?

Hootsuite?

What if you need to manage multiple social media accounts? Do you actually – really, diligently — take the effort to login in individual account every time?

Wow! That’s a tough job! I remember doing that before I discovered using a social media dashboard.

So, why pick Hootsuite? Here are Top Good Reasons:

It’s FREE! – You can create an account under basic plan. Of course, most of the features are limited. You can only add 5 social network accounts, 2 RSS/Atom Feeds, 30 Days Stats History & Ad Supported.

Stream Modification/Customization – Add up to 10 streams for Mentions, DMs, Sent Tweets, Pending Tweets, and Twitter Lists.

Scheduled Updates – It’s not bad to schedule tweets as long as we don’t abuse it right? I find this useful especially when catching up with events like New Year and Christmas.

Three Themes To Choose From – I didn’t change my theme but some might be fancy enough to change the dashboard color to black or blue.

One-Time Login to Access Other Social Network Accounts – I can post updates to my Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace & Ping.fm straight from my Hootsuite dashboard. I don’t have to login to each account just to post an update.

Internet Based – No need to download and install Hootsuite. No need to update. Saves your computer’s performance speed and memory!

Available on Mobile – A real “Social on the Go’! You can access Hootsuite from your phone by downloading hootsuite apps for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android. Check other Hootsuite Apps and Plugins here.

I’d love to try the paid version of Hootsuite, too. I’m sure they have a lot more to offer other than those that I’ve listed.

How about you? What’s your favorite social media dashboard?

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If you have any comments, questions, or even better, suggestions, hit me up on Twitter, Facebook, or Czarina Cleopatra!