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 missing but I can still type zeroes AND Continue Reading
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Who Needs Zeroes (on the keyboard) Anyway?
Fail Faster
This is a great Michael Jordan commercial, anyone in business should watch this remarkable ad.
Airport Security FAIL – Liquids in Manufacturer Bottles are Legit
In this edition of stupid laws you can’t believe someone actually wrote, we investigate a new one. Apparently, there is a law about how liquids must be stored that goes down on the list as one any criminal without a front labotomy (or drug use with similar effects) could get Continue Reading
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 – a Vision of 1960 “The freedom to think and the Continue Reading
Celebrities Who Treat Twitter Like Broadcasting Medium Miss the Point
I form first impressions very fast, and since I make a lot of friends through Twitter I’ve figured out some different ways of evaluating their profile to make some generalizations about who they talk to, how engaged they are with people, and what they’re interested in. It’s much faster to Continue Reading
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 choose from.
Social Media Begins with Listening, Not Branding
Warning: bit of a rant. I just opened my weekly email from Biznik, letting me know about business events in my neck of the woods, and was confronted with this: What’s the problem with this? Well, for one the use of “Any social media expert” kind of baffles me — Continue Reading
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 for a no-host bar (heh). If you don’t know, Valleywag is the Continue Reading
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 to update the 140 character communication service without actually visiting Continue Reading
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 night, I didn’t know. After the ideas were pitched I talked to a Continue Reading