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June 10, 2009

Who Needs Zeroes (on the keyboard) Anyway?

Enjoyed this clever tweet this morning, in response to my comments on getting to know my new Mac PowerBook G4 – which is one of two Mac laptops I tweet-sourced before heading down to SF this week: Note: The zero key is m...

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June 8, 2009

Fail Faster

This is a great Michael Jordan commercial, anyone in business should watch this remarkable ad. Favorite

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May 30, 2009

We Are Now Approaching the Futurama

I love commercials, especially ones about the future. Some are inspiring, others are trite, and maybe plain stupid. But the fact that we can dream like this, and then see this stuff come true, is cool. 1939 World’s Fair...

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April 14, 2009

Crowdspring has a sense of humor!

I just signed up for Crowdspring and look what they gave me: What is Crowdspring A place where creatives can sell their work for spec and buyers can submit a creative brief and quickly get a whole bunch of submissions to...

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April 10, 2009

Neophilia

Last night I stopped by the Valleywag mixer, which was geared towards PR and Media types, at Apartment 24. I was curious to meet Owen Thomas, and understand what he was trying to accomplish by bringing together flaks fo...

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April 8, 2009

Impressive Twitter.com Traffic in March

I was screwing around on Compete.com tonight, looking at the traffic of some of my favorite websites, and thought “oh yeah – I should look at Twitter”. As those of you familiar with Twitter know, there are TONS of ways t...

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April 6, 2009

Startup Weekend SF or Bust!

I started out at Startup Weekend feeling very non-committal about everything. Would I be in town on Sunday for the presentations? Did I have the energy or motivation to get something done over the weekend? On Friday nigh...

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