Tweet I love helping people learn about tools I take for granite. Things I know and use everyday. I also enjoy people who are humble enough to ask for help and say they just don’t know how to use something. I recently got asked how to create and use zip files. Using zip files is [...]
Tweet The United States is going to continue falling behind on the world stage as we prioritize spending our money on wars, wall street bailouts and other unnecessary things that do not help us grow as a society. Finland recently made access to Broadband Internet a legal right. Also Uruguay has become the first country [...]
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Tweet I have seen a lot of data trying support the class distinction between different users of online applications and services. I’ve seen the comparison between Facebook users being more intelligent and affluent than MySpace Users. I also saw a post on Mashable that Gmail users have higher credit scores than Yahoo mail users. I [...]
Tweet Why don’t I get some sort of traffic statistics for my Facebook profile? You get reporting if you buy advertising. I would like to see statistics for my page views, image, video and links. I should be able to see how many people are viewing my profile. Maybe you shouldn’t show “who” is visiting…but [...]
Tweet I was playing with my Google Voice the last couple days. If I got more phone calls I could definitely see it being a bigger part of my life. Then I started playing with it more. I can get text messages using my Google Voice phone number. Nice. Then I called my number and [...]
Tweet Stumbling across several cool tools tonight. Came across this Bulk SMS Gateway. So you can send text messages (SMS) using this API and in addition you can also send text messages using email. The service is called TextMagic Bulk SMS Gateway. They offer a Java, Ruby , PHP, Python, Perl code as part of [...]
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Tweet Was just checking out a cool service called doculicious. It allows people to create HTML forms that generate PDF and email them to you when the form is submitted. It is a inexpensive and easy way to collect users data and create a legible records of their information. They also provide a few other [...]
Tweet I Was just reading on the Google Code blog that they just released a new issue tracker data API for projects that you host on Google Code. It is a public ticketing / bug tracking system for you to use. Makes sense. Wish I had more open source projects to work on so I [...]
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Tweet As a technology leader I face a lot of resistance from employers, partners and co-workers regarding the usage of new technology. I spent a great deal of time each day reading technical blogs and learning about new technologies. I test drive new tools and applications almost daily to see what is out there and [...]
Tweet I provide reputation management advice to many of my friends and colleagues and have lots of theories on how to best achieve desired results. Today I came across the same advice directly from Google. It is good to see Google providing their own reputation management advice.
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Tweet This is from a response to a question I came across on LinkedIn Answers. I thought I should syndicate it here: There are many different approaches to using Facebook for business that I could go into depending on the industry your in and the audience you looking to engage. These variables heavily influence how [...]
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Tweet Our teams have been working on some meeting and event planning systems lately that are deployed for multiple global events spanning many time zones. So having quality time zone information and meeting scheduling accuracy is very important. I have researched and came across several interesting links: Time Zone Event Planner – Compare Multiple Time [...]
Tweet Image via CrunchBase I am always impressed with where you can take WordPress as a web site management tool. It goes well beyond just being a blogging platform or even a simple content management system. With the Plugin directory a site owner can take it a long way. There are thousands of simple plugins [...]
Tweet I started getting more traffic to my blog lately and with that came a bunch of SPAM. I dealt with for about a month than I began searching for a solution. Of course the WordPress Plugin directory is where to go. I cam across the highly rated WordPress WP-SpamFree plugin. I highly recommend it, [...]
Tweet I really like ideas. I have them all the time. I work all the time to organize, prioritize, share and collaborate on my ideas. I love hearing other people’s ideas on things. I was just browsing around the wordpress web site and came across their idea section. I really like this. I think every [...]
Tweet I was following Lifehackers best windows task manager vote, and they named process explorer as the best. So I downloaded to check out. I like it…. It gives you all the information on what is running on your windows machine. It fills in the gaps and gives me what I’ve been looking for all [...]
Tweet I was just playing with a “cross FTP” tool that allows you to setup your FTP and Amazon S3 connections side by side in the same client. I do a lot of FTP’ing as well as moving data to Amazon S3. Interesting concept….will play with more and see if it can become a regularly [...]
Tweet I had two ideas for stories that some day I would like to write. I generally start a new Google Doc and flush out the beginning of story or production that I would like to flush out more and eventually do something with. My products can range from blog posts to actual books I [...]
Tweet People are always talking about putting your faith into the cloud. I am definitely worried about putting all my data online, and think about the repercussions of it. Now that Amazon Web Services have been around a while, my Amazon S3 storage account has become a central utility in my personal and business life. [...]
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Tweet Since 2006 I have been gathering a top headline from the top 20 newspapers in the country. I pull these headlines using RSS feeds programatically every morning at 8:30 AM pacific time. I then assemble these into a sort of poem for that day. I was redoing my site a year or so ago [...]