Chances are, you’re got an old PC sitting around. Most likely it’s stashed away in the back of a closet in your house. Behind that tennis racket you never pick up. And right next to your dusty rollerblades. You probably often think to yourself how you should get rid of all that stuff. Stick it [...]
A few years ago, I was chatting with a good friend of mine about an interactive project he was working on for a client. The project was a flash based web site that allowed you to develop custom greeting cards and print them out at home. Not e-cards. But actual physical birthday and holiday cards [...]
You know it. I know it. The interweb is full of distraction after distraction. Between IM, Twitter, Hulu, TechMeme, Google Reader, Pandora, and a ranking of every Beatles song ever recorded, it’s amazing that I ever write a line of programming code or change my kids diapers. It’s a miracle I ever get around to [...]
As Phil Schiller told David Pogue, having a blockbuster keynote every January at MacWorld just isn’t something that Apple can keep up. But that doesn’t mean that I didn’t follow what Engadget was live blogging on Tuesday morning hoping to hear about a revised MacMini and what’s in store for the iPhone. But sadly, Apple [...]
If you’re like me and fond of the tech gadgets that fill your life, one of the treats of the new year is that it starts off with a bang. Both MacWorld and the Consumer Electronics Show take place in the first full week of January. For me, it makes for a good time to [...]
This is part 1 in a series of building an intelligence dashboard using NetVibes.
What’s an intelligence dashboard?
An intelligence dashboard helps you keep your pulse on…well, there’s a lot of things you can keep your pulse on. In this series, we’re going to build an intelligence dashboard to assist with monitoring Tesla Motors in various [...]
I’ve been at the Social Media Strategies Conference in San Francisco the last 2 days, meeting great people, and learning plenty. Yesterday I was recruited by Colin Browning to lead a breakout session that was tasked with thinking about how to approach the development of social media strategy for a non-profit organization. During the session, [...]
Today, Google dove headfirst into the browser wars by releasing their own browser – Chrome. I’ve downloaded it, installed it, and have now been using it for 30 minutes. Here’s what I’m thinking…
Yes, it loads super fast. And that is definitely a welcome improvement from my beloved, but sometimes hated Mozilla Firefox. Firefox currently takes [...]
I have previously written that I believed Twitter’s tipping point was coming on November 4, 2008 – the night of the Presidential election. In that post, I wrote about how Twitter would cross into mainstream media and we would be seeing Tweets being quoted by news anchors. But Hurricane Gustav has played in a role [...]
A recent post on WP Candy posed the question "Does WordPress Scare Your Clients?" It is absolutely true that to some degree, new users will not be comfortable with the WordPress administrative dashboard and will not know how to do even the simplest tasks such as adding a new post. But being scared and not [...]
