Tweet LinkedIn finally opened up their API to the world. It gives you authentication, profile, and network access to LinkedIn Profiles. It is definitely a step forward. Unfortunately I am looking for access to the events, question and answer, and group access through the API as well. Also I would like access to the LinkedIn [...]
Tweet I use Subversion pretty religiously in our development environment. It bothers a lot of developers and other key people because it can be perceived as a bottle-neck. I am always amazed at how many organizations I work with (tech development shops) do not use subversion at all. I feel its mandatory. I would like [...]
Tweet The White House recently announced the Development 2.0 Challenge, a Tech Competition for the Developing World. They are attempting to crowd-source international development initiatives and get away from programs being designed by experts and government officials without sufficient input from citizens, social entrepreneurs, or people. They are looking for people from around the world to [...]
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Tweet Google has just announced Feedburner integration with Google Analytics. Now when you are using both Google Analytics and FeedBurner, you will see campaign attribution for item clicks tracked by your AdSense For Feeds or your Google FeedBurner account. Even many businesses that have fully embraced RSS as a tool in their online marketing toolbox [...]
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Tweet I have been getting asked by friends for information on how to setup their own business. I think in these hard times getting a business going can be a very appealing alternative to finding another job. While I was doing the research I figured I’d just publish here for everyone to reference. This generally [...]
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Tweet Here is a tool / idea that I came up with out of necessity. Like many of my ideas I probably will never get time to actually do it. So I am putting it out there to the universe and hopefully someone will do. I am building an outline using Google Docs. This outline [...]
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Tweet When I start my day I tend to open one browser and deploy all my work / business related applications and one browser for all my personal related applications. My personal browser tabs have been: Gmail Google Calendar w/ Google Tasks Bar Google News which switches to Google Reader after the morning Facebook WordPress [...]
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