Omar Wasow

Some tips for saving money this holiday shopping season:

• find the right products with ConsumerReports.org
• find the best prices with shopping.google.com
• find discounts and coupons with retailmenot.com
• comparison shop while in-store with redlaser
• find coupons and discounts for nearby retailers with Yowza
• stay on top of your money with mobile banking
• keep track of receipts from your iphone with DocScanner
• store your notes and paper for ready access with Evernote

Have other tips or suggestions? Send me an email at owasow {-at-} gmail dot com or find me on twitter: @owasow

Five tech gift suggestions on Today in two minutes and twenty-six seconds:

{and in under five seconds: Kindle for readers, Ooma free phone calls in US, Kodak Zi8 for portable HD video, Jawbone PRIME for quiet calls, Samsung LCD TV for couch potatoes}

Oprah’s new favorite jeans + gadgets? See this Thursday.

Department of Shameless Self Promotion: 90 seconds of fall tech trends on Today.

Tavis Smiley and I discuss the evolution of smartphones and growing competition.

The Kindle is great for a curated reading experience but a real pain if you’re one of those crazy people who wants to read your own documents or interact with readers and authors. For more of my beef, see Three Problems with the New Kindle.

Tavis Smiley and I discuss the hype and substance of Twitter on his public radio show.

Check out my article on The Root addressing how Obama became our first internet President:

Barack Obama is far more than the first black president; he is the first Internet president. Certainly, integrating the White House is the more historic accomplishment, but Obama’s remarkable innovations in campaigning may have a longer-term impact. From this moment forward, ambitious candidates around the world will be trying to copy the successful, Web-based code of Obama’s breakthrough campaign for change.

NPR show On The Media interviewed me about the the state of the black internet: