I’ve always considered myself a relatively romantic person. Surprising my girlfriend (when I had one) with flowers, secret plans, and notes of good will when the time was right. When it comes to entrepreneurship on the other hand (like business business, not the other kind of business) I am much less romantic. In fact, it [...]
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Yearly Archives: 2007
When Innovation Strikes
December 28, 2007 – 12:26 am
On Dec. 10 Amazon said it had its best e-commerce shopping day ever. When looking through their stats, there are some surprising numbers. The one I found particularly awesome was about the Wii.
Nintendo’s Wii is an example of what happens when you focus on creating an innovative product people want. Amazon’s stats show that. [...]
Me and the nephew
December 26, 2007 – 9:53 pm
One of the downsides of living on the other side of the US is I don’t get to see my nephews (or my family) but a few times a year. It made me happy, though, when my nephew Liam (2 years old) came over and plopped down in my lap for some good ‘ole book [...]
A Digital Christmas
December 25, 2007 – 9:00 pm
Haven’t figured out how to add images to a post mobily. But here is a view of tech in action as we use skype to bring my brother in laws family (who’s in Scotland) to christmas in video form (and us to them). I love technology.
Update:
Added the picture. Got an HTC Tilt for xmas. In [...]
Merry Christmas
December 25, 2007 – 7:32 am
I figured while I am up and thinking late this Christmas Eve, I would do some blogging (as you saw by my slightly earlier post).
You all are like a part of the family (insert Hallmark moment). But really, thank you all for reading and have a Merry Christmas. Not happy holidays, screw that.
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Wink.
December 25, 2007 – 7:27 am
I’m in Like With You is an awesome site. Not particularly because I find a huge intrinsic value from it (I don’t. I have a thing that if a site has too many female cleavage shots its value relative to me reaches zero. For those of you who asked yourself “What about male cleavage shots?” [...]
Social Media Marketing With Twitter
December 24, 2007 – 2:53 am
(Big thanks to Allie for letting me use her awesome photo!)
I read a very interesting differentiation recently on Traditional Marketing versus Social Media Marketing by Chris Borgan. In his post, Chris makes an interesting separation describing social media as the tools and marketing as the discipline. Chris goes further to state (with a pretty solid [...]
Facebook is my master
December 20, 2007 – 10:11 pm
I’ve spoken with Ryan Healy about his post on how we all work for Facebook and some continued thought has sparked on my end regarding application developers (and us as users, which is more toward the bottom). One such thing in particular is the relatively kind phrase attributed to Facebook of “Walled Garden” when referring [...]
Twitter and new ways to listen
December 20, 2007 – 6:42 am
Two things of particular interest. First, for those who happen to do a lot of twittering, Hashtags.org has launched. Hashtags is something that I’ve seen spoken of frequently for Twitter, so it’s neat to see the steps taken to push Twitter to the next evolutionary phase, so to speak.
Hashtags, if you don’t know, is the [...]
Arrived and back in the swing
December 19, 2007 – 7:20 pm
No, it didn’t actually take me 4 days to get to California, although both of my flights on Saturday were delayed. At any rate I am here, past my jet lag (for some reason 3 hours affects me more than the larger time differences). Now that I am all settled in, I will be posting [...]