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Author: Aaron Brazell

  • Live Coverage of Graphing Social Patterns East

    Starting tomorrow through Wednesday, Technosailor.com will be bringing you coverage of the Graphing Social Patterns East conference here in Washington, D.C. We were a last minute applicant for media credentials, but squeaked in by the skin of our teeth. Thanks, Dave McClure and Maureen Jennings for making that happen! GSP is an interesting conference to…

  • Political Blogging 2.0

    The Second Great Age of political blogging is upon us. For those who remember the 2004 race, when blogging was just hitting its stride, you might remember that politicos were the only bloggers acknowledged by anyone in the media. It’s still that way to a large degree, but only one blog, Huffington Post remains in…

  • A Different Spin on the Tip Jar

    My friend, Jim Kukral is a great marketing guy, so he started working me on Scratchback late last year when he first launched it. Scratchback makes the assumption (whether correctly, or incorrectly) that people who like what you do want to give something back to you. Regular people don’t want to make an ad buy,…

  • Technosailor TV Alert: Saturday June 7, 9pm Eastern

    Heads up. Our second episode of Technosailor TV is tomorrow night at 9pm Eastern. This week, we’ll be doing the Mixx Minute with Kevin Palmer of Pointless Banter. Kevin is a really funny guy so you’ll like him. In addition, Nick Bouton of Protagonize, a social fiction writing site will be joining us in the…

  • I Own My Data, Dammit

    Micah had a very encouraging article last night about two commenting social networks, Disqus and Intense Debate. It was all about listening to your customer base and making trajectory adjustments as needed to ensure you’re meeting real needs, instead of just assuming your business model has everything mapped out for you and you know exactly…

  • A Manifesto for Mobile and Location Based Social Networks

    Mobile is hot. Untethering from computers is the next generation of the web and I’ve said it for awhile. FindWhere CEO Jaap Groot and my friend and DoC co-host Geoff Livingston have co-authored a white paper (they call it a manifesto) for mobile and location-based social networks outlining eight requirements for a successful mobile endeavor.…

  • John McCain Interview at Google

    He was a hero.

  • Yeah it’s cheaper, but what are you really getting?

    I’ve gone round and round about what to talk about this time and, after many heated battles with Nerf balls and Twinkies, a phone call gave me the solution.  I recently spoke to a gentleman who decided that, rather than create a visually appealing website; he was going to spend as little as possible on…

  • Siemens PLM User Conference, Day 2, JSF Thoughts

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  • Uttering from the Siemens PLM User Conference

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