I got a request to write up a article on SoCon via the Skribit app in my sidebar. It was quickly voted up so you folks must want to know what went on. Truth be told, I did not spend a lot of time at SoCon. I went to the networking dinner on Friday night […]
Continue reading →"Web services don’t get better under the ownership of big companies. They get worse." Fred Wilson
Continue reading →The Internet is an odd place sometimes. I was googling {update: term removed by request} for reasons that I will keep to myself. Not a lot of results there, but one led to tasty little tidbit that Apple’s second logo was a tribute to Alan Turing. Seems that the father of modern computer preferred men […]
Continue reading →“Social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected.” George Reyes "While Google management insisted on the call that the company beat its internal growth estimates, that’s like your kid getting a C grade versus your B+ expectation, and then attempting to explain it away by saying that he/she had thought they were going […]
Continue reading →A couple of days ago eBay announced some "bold changes" to its fee structure, seller standards and feedback mechanism. Now I participate a bit in the eBay community as "nopressureman". 100% positive feedback have I. Most recently I sold my Nikon D70s and a Nikkor 28-105mm lens when I upgraded to the D80. For the […]
Continue reading →I am sitting with 80 people at the TAG/ATDC Entrepreneurs Society listening to Sandeep Agate of REACH Call talk about his business and how winning the 2006 GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition helped propel his company forward. Gregg Warren CEO of ATDC member company IVOX, the 2007 winner, is up next. This is a kickoff for […]
Continue reading →Not me. FoG. You may have noticed. Paul Stamatiou converted it from three to two columns. New and improved search work was done by Blake Purdue. Now I need someone to freshen up the design a bit. Like Paul and Blake I will give you a shout out and the added bonus of attribution within […]
Continue reading →Yesterday in response to my post on how RSS works Paul Freet posed the question "what RSS reader do you use? I have never found one that works well with all of blogs I try to follow." For those that don’t know a RSS reader is a client or web app that lets you automatically […]
Continue reading →It seems like nearly everyday I telling someone to go to Peachseedz and FoG to subscribe to their RSS feeds. This often leads to a longer explanation of how RSS works. The folks over at Common Craft do a more entertaining job of this than I. Much more. It’s like a four minute long geeky […]
Continue reading →Yesterday Chris Brogan announced that he was going to dedicate his next 100 posts to helping people grow the value of their social media and social networking efforts. Chris is a social media rockstar. If you have not been following him and want to learn how to better use social media and social networks to […]
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