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May 28, 2008
Matt Bailey, founder of web marketing firm Sitelogic, has been spending some time on real estate websites lately, and let loose with a rant earlier today about his disappointment with the state of online RE sites. One of his main...
May 27, 2008
Brightkite is a new social networking site that seems to have found an interesting niche somewhere between Dodgeball and Twitter. I've had a chance to play around with it over the past week and have a few observations to share....
May 24, 2008
After attending the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, I left wondering how techie the CIOs attending really are. I have no doubt that they're extraordinarily competent when it comes to interacting with boards, understanding budgets, and negotiation large IT contracts, but...
May 23, 2008
Imagine this: your business decides to spend money on pay per click advertising but doesn't have unlimited funds. I imagine it's not too tough to imagine that scenario. Given a limited budget, you're faced with decisions on where to spend...
May 21, 2008
Technology Evangelist's Roald Marth is presenting a lunchtime keynote on innovation at today's MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. If you're in front of a desk today, you can tune into the entire day's worth of presentations live on the web for...
May 20, 2008
I'm going to hardcore geek out on you here, so be prepared! I have a live videocast called SpaceVidcast which aims to educate the planet on why manned flights to other planets are necessary for the survival of the human...
May 18, 2008
Adrian Holovaty's presentation at Where 2.0 includes some fascinating insights into the challenges his Everyblock project faces when trying to aggregate public data sources. No two communities use the same standards for storing or sharing the information they collect....
May 17, 2008
Aaron Wall has an excellent explanation of why a click costs so much more on Google on average than a click for the exact same term on Yahoo. As he explains, it really comes down to the quality of the...
May 15, 2008
I've been trying to think of a way to illustrate the point I was trying to make in yesterday's post about the value of "micro-short-tails"* and came up with this: Theoretically, the bars on the map represent three products sold...
May 14, 2008
Brian Carter of Fuel Interactive raises an interesting point about the effectiveness of keywords in the long tail of pay per click advertising. It has long (in Internet time) been thought that advertising on a huge portfolio of search terms...
May 13, 2008
Today I had Comcast's new DOCSIS 3.0 Business Class service installed at a home with 5 static IPs. The install went fairly smoothly (we had a bit of a scare in thinking we couldn't get over 2Mbps but it...
I've been disgusted with just how bad airports, in 2008, are at accommodating the needs of business travelers. As I understand the world of travel, business travelers are the ones who pay a lot for their tickets. I also get...
May 12, 2008
Should you host your own blog? If so (or not) what are your options and why should you choose one over another? These are common questions from people who are considering getting into blogging for business or something beyond blogging...
May 10, 2008
Jamie Thinglestad (Dow Jones), Robert Stephens (Geek Squad), Dan Grigsby (Unpossible), Douglas Olson (Microsoft), Matthew Dornquast (code42), Michael Gorman (Split Rock Partners) How to attract software companies to come here? Grigsby: MN has a long track record of creating...
Jon Dahl of Slantwise Design presented at Minnebar on "Consulting for fun and profit" Dahl provided a Jeopardy style list of topics to choose from. The thoughts below come from a combination of Dahl and audience participation. Hiring Pitfalls...
Jesse O'Neill-Oine from Refactr presented on development for the iPhone at Minnebar (his slides can be found on the Refactr blog). O'Neill-Oine opened by explaining how he was turned onto iPhone development: "I'm into iPhone development because I frickin'...
Bex Huff spoke on the subject of Communication for Geeks in a opening session at Minnebar. The majority of software projects fail, and communication breakdowns are responsible for a large share of the failures. He explained that people are...
May 9, 2008
As a videocaster I try to keep up on the latest and greatest video players out there. From YouTube to Blip.tv to Revver to Google Video and many, many, many others. It seems that time and time again I end...
May 7, 2008
On Twin Cities Live I'll be chatting about Skype and how to use it as a free videophone solution as well as a way to use it as a house, baby or babysitter monitor. I won't be getting in to...
May 6, 2008
Here's one way to gain a lot of Twitter friends instantly: teach a large group of non-Twitter users how to use the service. 1. Text 40404 with the term: join 2. Reply to the confirmation with a username of your...
May 5, 2008
Facebook Explained in the Weekly Evil TinyURL.com Blocked by Panera Bread Who Profits From Your Content When You're Dead? Where Offline Shopping Beats Online Today Amazon's 50 Product Page Features...
May 2, 2008
Edelman has published an interesting study measuring consumers trust of various sources ranging from "People like myself" to "bloggers" that aims to explain the credibility people give to different relationships: I wonder how different the results would be if -...
May 1, 2008
I've found myself answering this question a lot lately, so I figure I should just turn it into a blog post so I can point people to it. So, you've decided that you want to host your own blog with...
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