Category: Aaron Brazell

  • del C:\WIN – A Goodbye to Windows 3.1

    The end of an era has arrived for a legend in computing. Windows 3.1, the first widely accepted foray into graphical user interface operating systems from Microsoft, has reached its End of Life. The BBC covered the story noting, “[It] helped Microsoft establish itself and set the trend for how it makes its revenues, and…

  • Gary Vaynerchuck Challenges the Current Marketing Mindset in a Down Economy

    Tremendous insight from Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.TV. This man may be the most brilliant marketing mind of our time. I’m pleased to call him a friend. Early apologies for some of Gary’s language as he is obviously passionate and fired up. Don’t let the language scare you away His message is very important. Thanks also…

  • What McCain-Feingold Did For Social Media in the Election

    Now that the election is over and we have an understanding of the numbers that were put up by both campaigns, I think we can safely say that the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill both killed the McCain campaign and reinforced social media at the helm of communications for the future. Let me explain. There…

  • Congratulations, President Obama

    The 44th President of the United States of America Photo by jmtimages

  • EXCLUSIVE: Tropicana Covers Election Day Twittering

    There are a couple of election related Twitter projects going on including Twitter Vote Report, which we covered the other day. Not on our radar at the time, however, was an interesting project from Tropicana that will take the expected high velocity Twitter coverage of the election all day and present it in a unique…

  • Blueprint for Change: Technology

    If I have not made it clear enough so far, this is why I have voted for Barack Obama. The internet industry is certainly affected by the economy, but it is one of the last sectors that still shows signs of growth and stability. During a down economy, it is important to capitalize in the…

  • Blackberry Provides a Mobile Device Too!

    Since the iPhone came out a year and a half ago, mobile app development has gone into an iPhone-only mode of development. Mostly. The web interface has made it much more conducive to providing a real rich environment for web applications and now that the iPhone 3G has arrived, apps are being produced left and…

  • Thummit: Food Reviewing Comes to Your Phone

    Have you ever found yourself sitting in a restaurant and completely turned off by the service you received? Or maybe you experience the best crab cake you have ever had? Up until recently, the best you could do was go submit your review to sites like Yelp – if you remembered when you got home.…

  • For Your Election Night Fun

    Election night is around the corner and with it comes all the fun. You can either watch the talking heads make early predictions (such as calling New York State within a minute after polls close) or you can head to the intarwebs for some fun. Unfortunately, we won’t have the Tim Russert whiteboard to keep…

  • The Apple Store isn't the Only Place Intelligent People Go to Die

    Apple announces an iPhone and people stand in line for it, despite the manufacturer never having entered the phone market before. A new line of computers is announced with some new feature never seen before in the platform, and people make a rush on the store to get their hands on the new sexiness. Apple…