A couple of sources (Wired, Venture Beat) commented last week on President Obama's announcement that his administration will create a cybersecurity czar. Most saw the action as a positive step. An...
It's getting harder and harder to have a business and not have a web page. But most businesss owners don't really have the in-house talent necessary to create a site on their own. So they find...
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by Greg Cruey on December 26, 2008
Marianne Paskowski over at BusinessWeek took a look this week at the value of LinkedIn - and she concludes that, well, there isn't much value in it. At least not from a business perspective.
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by Greg Cruey on November 30, 2008
Four or five years ago I read a newspaper article about a grocery store in Blacksburg, Va., where you could pick out your items on a website, pay with a credit card, and drive down to there store and ...
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And at the end of the day the Internet is still all about Software. - Marc Andreessen
Well at 10:00 PDT (17:00 UTC), Firefox 3 was to be officially released. According to ZD Net, as of 10:14 PDT, GetF...
Writing is its own reward. -Henry Miller© gustav*
OpenOffice.org has released OpenOffice 3.0 Beta free to download. If you are not familiar with OpenOffice, it is an open source office suite from Sun...
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. - Mark Twain
Sandra Grauschopf, the Contests Guide at about.com, led me to a good mozilla firefox extension...
"Is whispering nothing? Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses?" - Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (I, ii, 284-285)Shara Karasic has an excellent guide to Twitter posted today at wor...
Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. - Alexander Graham Bell
Skype is Internet telephony software. The software is free to download and allows free tel...
Have you used an on-line survey to gather information? As one who believes in "writing with the reader in mind" the best way to achieve success is by asking: What is important to you? How ...
Have you been in an airport lately?
I traveled out of Cleveland and into Phoenix over Thanksgiving and I was struck by the overload of electronics used by passengers in the airport. In the snack b...
My Dad, a longtime fan and owner of multiple Macs was reading the recent edition of MacWorld and found an article by Mathew Honan on the different Blog Platforms entitled The Smart Blogger's Gui...
I was reading Duct Tape Marketing, as I do regularly, and learned about bloglines new list of the top 1000 blogs. Duct Tape weighs in at #59 which is pretty darn good when you think the measurement ...
Stephen Hopson at Adversity University has moved his blog to Word Press. I applaud his actions as it is a far more challenging experience than you might think. As someone who has moved 28 times, I k...
I'm reading Seth's latest post How to create a good enough website and just the title is enough to send me over the edge.
I struggle EVERY DAY to instill a "go above and beyond" att...
Google has another great tool and thanks to John Jantsch for turning me on to Google Custom Search.
Imagine a search engine that YOU DESIGN to only contain the sites, blogs and information that you...
There is a fast growing career opportunity in the web industry: measuring website usability by tracking the eye patterns.
Tip of the hat to Branding and Marketing for news on this latest science:
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There's new technology in the news today. Ooma Inc. a Silicon Valley startup began selling their $399 telephone units today that once installed in homes/businesses with broadband Internet service ...
This morning over coffee I'm reading about Zac and Vanessa of HSM fame in People Magazine. Yes, you caught me.
What caught my attention was an advertisement for a new cell phone. On the heels of...
I was having an interesting conversation with a customer today. We were talking about website statistics:
Unique visits
Hits
Key words and phrases
I said that I had a standing appointment with mysel...
I just signed up for PRLog to submit a press release on line for a customer and had to assign YET AGAIN a user name and password.
How am I supposed to remember what I said? Some want your email, som...
We've all heard stories of computers that have crashed and people loosing all their data. You momentarily feel sorry and think "gosh, glad that wasn't me."
But in the last six month...
Linking - Pinging - Track Backs - what do they all mean?
Andy Wibbels, author of Blog Wild has defined track backs even simple enough for me to understand. I loved his book BlogWild but his blog is a...
Bob Coppedge of Simplex-IT just turned me on to a FREE opportunity from Microsoft.
Looking for web presence but don't have any money? Check out Microsoft Office offering a free website which incl...
PC World recently listed the 25 websites to watch. Embedded in the article were the 25 worst websites.
Like a "rubber-necker" checking out the details of a car accident in hopes of seeing a...
That's the question on today's CEO Express Poll and so far the "nos" have it.
18% say yes
63% say no
The question comes from a new book on the market:
In his book, Andrew Keen (t...
Wow - widgets seem to be taking over the world. It used to be that your website or blog just had content and maybe an advertisement but then widgets (little pieces of html code) starting popping up to...
Okay, so we are all on board that we need to have a website and we need to blog and social networking is the way to reach your customer virtually and begin to develop a relationship.
Right? We are al...
We have been hearing that adding your voice with an Mp3 file or a video clip helps visitors to your site get a real feel for your personality - beginning to build that relationship. And not long ago I...
We all know that key words and phrases are key to readers finding our site on the web. There are many resources available for researching key words:
Wordtracker is the one I have used. But once you h...
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