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It’s time to get Wicked”¦
After much arm twisting, pleading, begging and bribing of Aaron, Technosailor himself, and Steven Fisher, of VentureFiles fame, I bring you the content whose focus is to help you get into the mindset of the visual side of marketing your business, product or self. Each week, I’m going to go over topics from what to…
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Longevity: 4 Years, 4 Authors, 2000 Posts
Tomorrow we are celebrating four years of Technosailor.com and I’d like to thank everyone who is coming out for the birthday bash in downtown DC (There are still tickets available!). It’s been a ride and we are only now hitting our ascent into a full fledge media property. In the past four years, this site…
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Early Adopters Are Useless
We are early adopters. We use. We try. We evangelize. We bury. We filter. That’s what we think anyway. In reality, we are pretty useless. Late last year, Amazon released the Kindle to the joy and enthusiasm of many early adopters. Robert Scoble, the poster child for early adopters, gleefully got his Kindle on the…
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Blogger Blacklist (and Other PR Pipe Dreams)
Remember the blogger-PR fiasco last year? The one where Wired Editor Chris Anderson published a list of over 300 email addresses from PR flacks that pitched him unsolicited? It caused quite a stir. In fact, around here, it got the PR Roundtable going where Marshall Kirkpatrick, Cathryn Hrudicka, Brian Solis, Doug Haslam and the late…
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Brightkite: Blazing New Paths in Microcontent
A few weeks ago, I received an invite to Brightkite so I signed up, being the early adopter that I am. What I saw instantly resonated with me. Before I get into the technical and usability “stuff” let me explain the resonance I had. first there was Twitter which blazed onto the scene with the…
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Accepted to Google News
Earlier this evening, I received word from Google that this site would be included in their technology news site. This is significant because this site has been submitted multiple times before but never qualified. One of the more rigid requirements for Google News inclusion is that a site not be single author. In addition, it’s…
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The Power of Bloggers
I subscribe to a handful of blogs that are completely unrelated to my niche. The reason behind these subscriptions are varied: historical niche coverage that I’ve done (for instance, politics when I got started), friends or associates, really killer blogs related to specific sports teams, etc. There’s different reason. Largely, though, my RSS reader is…
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Apparently, Running a High Profile Business Makes You Stupid
It’s simply fascinating that we look up to certain people who begin successful companies. Not to knock them, or anything. They obviously have something working for them. However, you’d never know it from their blogs. In fact, their blogs tell us that they are complete idiots. Examples. Biz Stone, founder of Twitter keeps a blog…
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Technosailor Birthday Bash Meetup
We’re coming up on four years here blogging at Technosailor.com. It’s been a fantastic four years and what better way to celebrate than with a party? We’re still putting some final touches on the plans, including securing a venue, but I can say, “Mark your Calendars” for May 20th. In addition to four years of…
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Pardon the Dust
Pardon the dust, we’re getting a facelift. Yep, after a year or more, we liked the theme we had and so we decided to build off of it. However, it’s much more geared toward “depth and varying streams” of content. I’ll talk a little bit more about this later, but for now, just pardon the…