Category: Aaron Brazell

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Screenshots from WordPress 2.7

    The upcoming release of WordPress is around the corner, and we’ll be covering the things you will need to know about it, as we always do. However, this is such a big release (game changer, at that!) that I wanted to tease you with some screenshots. I’ll let your imagination run wild (and you can…

  • Obama Web Exec Watch: ICANN Board Member Joins FCC Transition Team

    In case there is any doubt about Obama’s committment to forward thinking web technologies and tapping some of the minds behind it, we will continue to document members of the web community who are entering the Obama administration or transition team. Last week, I mentioned that Obama had named Google.org’s Sonal Shah and Launchbox Digital…

  • AwayFind Launches, Brings New Solutions for Email Freedom

    Sometime late last year, I caught wind of an email productivity tool that was in development. That product, AwayFind promised to help people stop checking email. Since then, I’ve gotten to know the founder and CEO, Jared Goralnick who has been approaching the product with a very head down, listening approach. I have used AwayFind…

  • Journalistic Recklessness

    It’s been no secret that John McCain running mate, Sarah Palin, has been less than popular. Uttering many gaffes during the last two months of the campaign, she was an obvious choice to attribute the failure of the campaign. People simply wanted to believe that she could say some of the stupidest things on the…

  • SEO and Personal Brand is not dead. If you innovate.

    Two very close friends of mine have made blanket statements stating that SEO is Dead and that, in essence, so is personal brand. Though I understand the sentiment expressed in both posts, it is still misinformation and very debunk-able. Micah Baldwin, who thinks SEO is dead, also happens to be my boss at Lijit. Geoff…

  • Extending Technosailor, Extending Thesis

    Recently, I kicked off a development effort behind the scenes here at Technosailor.com that will take a bit of time to see through to completion. This plan involves you as a community of readers as well as some of the best technology currently lying around the web. I’m calling it Operation Dharma for no fancy…

  • Web 2.0 Representation in the Obama Administration

    We are not 4 full days into the Obama transition period and already three web executives have made theoir way into the mix in some kind of advisory role. Yesterday, we covered the naming of Julius Genachowski of Launchbox Digital and Sonal Shah of Google.org to the transition team. Today, the New York Times points…

  • Obama Names Googler and Launchbox Digital Cofounder to Transition Team

    In a move that demonstrates a commitment to web technology, President-elect Barack Obama has named a Google executive and a Launchbox Digital cofounder to his transition team. Julius Genachowski, from Launchbox Digital a DC-based web incubator investment company in the order of YCombinator and Techstars, IAC and Rock Creek Ventures comes to the team with…