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Trying to Shop for Mom

12.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Amazon knows me too well.

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Cisco gets Social Media

12.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

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General

Cousin Sara Visits Gainesville

12.13.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

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Entrepreneurship

RE: Email

11.10.09 | Permalink | Comment?

We use (and misuse) email for just about everything. Google’s answer to this archaic messaging service is Wave. I’ve been using the app for a few months now and I’m thoroughly impressed. That said, I’m not sure how wide spread adoption will fair. Despite all the hype, there still isn’t an easy answer to “What is Google Wave”. I think Wave, like other revolutionary products like One Note, will suffer because of this.

In the meantime, soft changes can significantly cleanse our Inboxes:

The real solution here is to move people beyond email silos wherever and whenever possible.

  • Broad kudos? Post it on a feedback forum or your blog.
  • Need an urgent, immediate answer? Pick up the phone and call.
  • Got something that needs a lot of touchy feely discussion? Set up a face to face meeting.
  • Discussing a particular topic or product? Post it on a public message board.
  • Is this more of a friendly, social thing? Try using a social network like Twitter or Facebook.

Coding Horror

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Image Hosting

10.12.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This is a little embarrassing… Back when I started this blog as a teenager I had very limited bandwidth on my home server so I opted to host all my pictures of Photobucket.

Well it’s now 2009, time to get a real image host. About to fire up S3Fox and get to work :)

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