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October 31, 2007
Minnesota Public Radio took a look at the comment moderation policies used at newspapers throughout the state of Minnesota and reported on the challenged faced by providing a forum for readers. Policies ranged from not allowing comments on one extreme...
October 30, 2007
I had a meeting yesterday afternoon at a newly opened Caribou Coffee in Minnetonka, Minnesota. In fact, I believe it was their first day. After ordering my drink, I went through my normal routine of surveying the tables to find...
October 29, 2007
My leopard installs went fairly smoothly. The only real driver I had to add was one for my OkiData c5300 printer. My Vista installs were not nearly as nice, and I have spend days of my life trying to...
October 27, 2007
This sounds like a case of "just following orders" but clearly the order need to be changed. A family who's house was destroyed this week in the fires near San Diego, California is being charged by AT&T for the loss...
October 26, 2007
Reggie Nicolay at Technology for Real Estate has an interesting post title about how Yahoo Pipes could be used to refine real estate search. The post itself does more to explain Yahoo Pipes than how it could be applied to...
Our favorite suite of remote access products is supported on the iPhone, although a wee bit slowly. If you're not familiar with LogMeIn's suite I would highly suggest checking out our introduction article. If you're using LogMeIn and have...
October 25, 2007
I know everyone seems to think that Google is going to start eating into Microsoft Office, but I think it's going to be consuming the sales of Microsoft's flagship communications product first: Microsoft Exchange. Google recently released IMAP support...
I have been testing out the FriendCSV application mentioned on TechCrunch yesterday. FriendCSV allows you to download a .csv file with some - but not all - of your Facebook friend's contact information. One thing I found interesting was the...
Google has finally gotten around to adding a comments subscription option to Blogger powered blogs. It has a few limitations, but is a welcome improvement over nothing at all. The limitations: 1. It looks like you have to have a...
October 24, 2007
Om Malik takes a look at NBC's decision to move from YouTube to their own distribution network co-owned with News Corp called Hulu. He suggests that this is a bad move since it fragments the video distribution market: It is...
I usually try and avoid the "headline of the day" posts, but this one is too good to pass up. If you log in to your GMail account and go to settings then forwarding you'll find that GMail now...
October 23, 2007
Recently a couple of servers I know were blacklisted, one by AT&T and another by Securence's ShieldWall (these are two different servers in two different cases). In both cases these companies treated the legit mail server like a criminal without any way for...
October 22, 2007
The NY Times has an article looking at the challenges faced by publishers and advertisers trying to determine web site traffic for advertising purposes. As it stands today, many large ad buyers are relying on services like Nielsen to determine...
October 18, 2007
Apparently, I've been using Google too much. How much? So much that Google thinks I'm sending "automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application." I know I use Google a lot, but this much? Google offers two links in...
October 17, 2007
How do you build a loyal following? Get your users to participate in the content you're creating. One way to do this is through comments on blogs, where people who've contributed their thoughts to a site have simultaneously become invested...
October 16, 2007
An excellent video by Michael Wesch at 200 students and Kansas State University takes a look at how students view education today. This reminds me of the concept of a "teachable moment." The concept here is that you can really...
October 15, 2007
Have you ever looked at the profiles of employees within the salesperson section of a company website and come away disappointed? I know I have, and I'm tryign to figure out how to make that a better experience. Generally, here's...
While many bloggers, including Technology Evangelist, publish their RSS feed subscribers on their blog, not all do. So that made Sunday's news about Google publishing subscriber counts within their network particularly interesting. While this doesn't represent the total subscribers to...
October 12, 2007
The iPhone has been out for a few months now and there's still quite a bit of debate behind the device. Dieter Bohn is an old friend and principle writer for WMExperts.com. As such Dieter has a lot of love...
October 11, 2007
Back when Overture was an independent company (2002-ish), and before that went by the name Goto.com, the company lived and died based on syndication partnerships. AOL was one of their huge deals. Since they were basically the only game in...
October 10, 2007
Fredric Dannen, author of Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business participated in a quorum on the Freakonomics blog looking at the music industry. While laying out his take on the industry, he made the argument...
October 9, 2007
Scott Allen, the co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, took 30 minutes to speak with us about blogging, online marketing and where the industry is at as a whole. The information in this interview was so...
A while ago I spoke about how much I liked the idea behind GrandCentral but it needed some work. Recently I wrote about the complete lack of progress I had seen on GrandCentral and my subsequent disappointment. Right after writing...
October 8, 2007
What can you do if you've been somewhere but can't remember where it was you were? Okay, that's pretty vague. How about if you went to a store or restaurant, but can't remember the name of it when you're trying...
October 7, 2007
In case you haven't noticed, kids these days are very open online about what's going on in their lives. Personally, as someone who's 33, I don't consider myself to be a kid, but friends of mine my age have a...
October 6, 2007
Yesterday, I clicked on the profile link of someone who left a comment on one of my photos on Flickr. After arriving at his photos, I was presented with a warning that the photos may not be safe for my...
October 5, 2007
The best thing about the AppleTV is that it's a High Definition iTunes extender. Apple was smart enough to forgo the older EDTV/SDTV standards and went with 720p/24 HDTV. The bad thing is that it's really hard to find HD...
This is a short roundup of some of the coverage of the RIAA lawsuit this week in Duluth, Minnesota where a woman was found guilty and fined $220,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 24 songs on the Kazaa network. Jon...
This serves as a reminder to me that the blogging tips posts I started last month may be worth continuing. Xobni is One Impressive Email Tool Archive vs Hide on Gmail and Google Docs How Could You Overpay for an...
October 4, 2007
According to what I learned at the Electronic Retailing Association conference, 30% of you will love this idea, 30% will think it's the stupidest thing they've ever heard of, with the remaining 40% falling somewhere in between. You can now...
October 3, 2007
Without warning the Soviet Union announced the successful launch of Sputnik into earth orbit, it was the world's first man made satellite. Immediately the United States was put on the defensive from both a technology and political perspective. Premier Khrushchev...
Google's TV advertising division was well represented at this week's Electronic Retailing Association conference in Las Vegas. This is a summary of a presentation given by Google's Matt Derella. Google has been in the process of rolling out a TV...
October 2, 2007
I've been in Las Vegas this week at the Electronic Retailer's Association's annual conference. One of the sessions I attended called, "Increase your ROI with New Technologies" took at look at emerging (or already emerged, depending on your perspective) technologies...
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