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Doing the Most Good Means Smart Economics
There’s an old saying that goes something along the lines of, “When life gets good, throw a party” and that seems to be a mentality that translates to business today. Mainly the web business, if we’re talking about literal parties. No good web conference, un-conference or social-media laden city goes without parties of some sort.…
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Verizon Wireless Bombs on the Blackberry Storm Launch, And I Need to Talk to Them
Quick post here to make a request for contact inside Verizon Wireless. The reasons are simple. Yesterday, they along with Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) bombed the much-hyped Blackberry Storm launch. Speculations by Boy Genius Report seem legitimate – that Verizon implemented a downgrade on the phone operating system just before rollout causing a…
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5 Things I Learned from Nuclear Winter
Nuclear Winter. It’s the time period after a holocaust that can last for hundreds of years, making the surrounding landscape around ground zero uninhabitable due to radiation. It is the death of life and the birth of a new holocaustic life. We’ve never actually had an actual nuclear winter on a global scale, though the…
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Working the Room
I love Gary Vaynerchuk. He is possibly my favorite person in social media. It could be his New York style, or his common sense, practical content. Gary gets it. He gets it in a way that very few other people, even in social media get it. I believe this stems from a lack of pretentiousness…
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The Life of a Single Guy
The Life of a Single Guy on 12seconds.tv
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There and Back Again: Top 10 Blogs to Explore
I was asked by the Editor of blogs.com to join an ongoing project where they poll some of the top bloggers (Marc Canter, Chris Anderson of Wired, Marc Andressen of Ning, etc). Somehow, I got on that list of bloggers. The point was to provide Top 10 blogs for their readers to read… sometimes on…
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10 Things You Need To Know About WordPress 2.7
The saga of cheatsheets and reference sheets continues with this outline of the hot new WordPress 2.7 which will be released soon. Like WordPress 2.5, this is a radical release. Like WordPress 2.5, the bulk of the changes affect the WordPress admin. Unlike WordPress 2.5, however, this is not merely an update of the backend…
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I Love Social Networking, But . . .
As the song goes, it don’t pay my bills. So I signed on with a startup that does. Hopefully, I can do both (time permitting). But talk about two different worlds . . . Hardware, not software. Distinctly un-social (for now). Government, not commercial. Business, not consumer. And funded, not — well, self-funded. I’m working…
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Adobe Selected as Video Platform for MLB.com for the Next Two Years
Adobe and Major League Baseball announced today that they have signed an agreement for Major League Baseball to power all their video content, including the live MLB TV content that is wildly popular. The announcement indicated that video content will also be available offline with use of the new, yet popular, AIR platform. Competitors to…