Tweet I was just talking with a colleague over Facebook chat about some great interviews and content she is producing from a conference she is at. She is wondering when the most opportune moment to release this content. When its polished and refined in a week or so…or take advantage of it now. The attention [...]
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Tweet Was reading a post on Programmable Web today about Sprint opening up a set of REST API to work with the Sprint mobile platform. Developers can now access location, simple presence, and send SMS messages to Sprint handsets without requiring any software installed to the device. This is an important business step for the [...]
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Tweet I have been using wordpress installations for content development. I am working on a couple of books and whitepapers. The white papers should be much shorter than the books. However the platform seems to work with my way of evolving the content for these papers and books. Even one book I am making public [...]
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Tweet This is a message to all you social media marketers who comment on my blog. Thank you so much for your praise of how wonderful I am and how informative my blog is. However if your comment does not add value to my blog or your link is to relevant content I click SPAM. [...]
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Tweet Social media will be used as a spin tool in ways we couldn’t even imagine in the near future….by government, entertainment industry, NGO‘s, CIA and anyone who is trying to steer public opinion in one direction or another… –Kin Lane
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Tweet I always want to visual my projects and ideas in easy to understand diagrams that are beautiful. I always look to Dion Hinchcliffe as the master of technical diagrams. I love his work. Being able to take a complex idea and articulate it in a single visual diagram that is universally understood is gold. [...]
Tweet Listening to Morning Edition on PBS right now and they are talking about the post election in Iran. All the public dissent and open revolts are largely organized by SMS and Facebook. With this kind of usage even in Iran, it really shows the importance of SMS and Social Media as a tool in [...]
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Tweet I am a big fan of the Fremium Business Model. Where you offer a base account that is free to get users in the door. Then you can upsell them on premium features. It just makes sense. I am also a big fan of the Free Trial for web based software as well. I [...]
Tweet Excited to have started playing with the Google Wave Federation Protocol this evening. I got my sandbox account today and played with the client available there enough….then after going through the Google Wave API docs and Google Wave Federation Protocol Draft Specs again I am eager start playing with some code. Going to play [...]
Tweet I’m not being to formal about my posts coming together from the Google I/O conference. A lot of work this week so I haven’t had time to pull together. So I am just going to rant about a few items randomly. One of them is the network and Internet connectivity at conference centers and [...]
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Tweet This month we are done with a hostage internet service provider (ISP) at WebEvents Global where I work. When I started we were already under contract with this ISP. We weren’t using the T1 connection, however we were still using the rack hosting. After working my way through the sales and tech support I [...]
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Tweet I attended many great sessions while at Google I/O. I really started to see the where they are going with using Google Spreadsheets as data stores. I have used as data stores for quite a while, but they are really pushing for them to store enterprise data, application data, web site data, and much [...]
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