Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008I stand in the world without a FriendFeed. It may be a slightly darker, colder less RSS-blissful place, but I am okay with that for the moment.
If you’ve been trapped under some Web 1.0 rock, FriendFeed is an aggregate service that allows you to link all your social media profiles, blogs and services into one […]
I am a slave to my Google Reader–efficiency is simple ignorance
Friday, March 7th, 2008It started as such an innocent tool. In my love of Gmail, I stumbled upon the powerful Google Reader (reader.google.com) and begin to fill it with RSS feeds from my favorite Web destinations. Instantly, my reader became the fastest way to skim through the gaming blogs, tech news and business musings of the talking heads […]
Monitoring the Web: Where in the Google are you?
Thursday, February 7th, 2008I’ll take your Seth Godin, and I’ll raise you one.
I suggest a tip I got a long while back from Scott Ginsberg, “The Nametag Guy,” about tracking your presence on the Web:
Set up a Google Alert for your name.
Really, go do it now.
By setting up a Google Alert for your name, you can easily keep […]
Why Google’s Android will revolutionize cell phone usage, smartphones
Thursday, November 8th, 2007As part of my recent Zen-ifying and simplifying of life–maximizing the amount of productive time in my day–I have downgraded. I traded in my MDA for a basic Samsung candybar phone. Why would a techie downgrade? Time wasted because smart phones are good enough for either of their fucntions today. I […]
Facebook vs. Google: If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em–Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook Ads
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Losing a bid to for a profitable investment to one of your major rivals is bound to be upsetting. It might even be so upsetting that you take a blood oath to destroy that investment or bend it to your will…
Facebook may have missed out on the chance to be a part of Google’s […]
