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Why I Have Resisted FriendFeed

By On 05.22.2008 · 1 Comment · In Web Culture

I 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 [...]

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I am a slave to my Google Reader–efficiency is simple ignorance

By On 03.07.2008 · 6 Comments · In Business

It 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 [...]

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Monitoring the Web: Where in the Google are you?

By On 02.07.2008 · 2 Comments · In Business, Working Class

I’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 [...]

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Why Google’s Android will revolutionize cell phone usage, smartphones

Why Google’s Android will revolutionize cell phone usage, smartphones

By On 11.08.2007 · Leave a Comment · In Business

As 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 smartphones are not good enough for either of their fucntions today. I couldn’t justify [...]

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Facebook vs. Google: If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em–Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook Ads

Facebook vs. Google: If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em–Google’s OpenSocial and Facebook Ads

By On 11.07.2007 · Leave a Comment · In Business, Social Media

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 [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg: He put your face on a book

Mark Zuckerberg: He put your face on a book

By On 11.06.2007 · 2 Comments · In Business

I think it’s appropriate in this new media landscape that we start off the profiles by talking about an entrepreneur that is as close to my age–part of the reason I get so antsy about getting my own startup together.

No matter how exactly Mark Zuckerberg got the idea, he has quickly established himself [...]

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