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Category: Aaron Brazell

  • 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.…

  • Dave Winer Runs Into Robert Scoble

    Dave Winer is crazy. I talked about it earlier this week. One of the Technosailor.com spies reported back with this exchange between Dave and Robert Scoble.

  • Barack Obama Wins the Democratic Nomination with 3441 Delegates

    Forget Independence day, also known as June 4th (Yes, I do know Independence Day is July 4th, but thanks for the correction. The statement was tongue in cheek.), also known as the day that Presidential hopeful Barack Obama claims the Democratic nomination for president. We’ve suffered through five months of primaries and caucuses and all…

  • Secrets that No one knows about me…

    Scott Stead put this great video together. Grab him, anytime you need video done for your events.

  • Technosailor.TV: Saturday Nights at 9pm

    After a few weeks of messing around and getting comfortable in the video streaming game, we’ve had a lot of fun and a good deal of attention. It’s been fun. I’ve learned some things too – namely that these things can easily go over three hours if there’s no structure. So, I’ll be streaming every…

  • It's 5 O'clock Somewhere. In Case You're on a Deadline

    For all the times I rant about PR pitches around here, I actually do get some good ones. Generally, these pitches are timely to me or my audience and are respectful in how they ask for press. Thus was the case today when a guy named Sergei [last name withheld for privacy] emailed me about…

  • For PHP Devs, a Twitter PHP Class

    At the end of this post, this site is going into a twitter free period of two weeks. I’m sensitive to the fact that we talk about Twitter quite a lot and not always doing a good job of reaching into all of real life like we’d like. So after this post, Twitter will not…