Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
I just got a message on GTalk from someone I almost never talk with on IM. The message: Check out this funny video- http://tinyurl.com/something Upon clicking, I was redirected to viddyho.com, which asked for my GTalk login: Of course, I didn’t enter my gmail credentials, as I can’t think of a reason why I should [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Since my last full time gig, I’ve been doing the consulting thing, and whenever I can, I work on a project basis rather than hourly. Why? I absoluely loathe keeping track of time more than anything. It’s a complete waste, and makes every task take longer to complete because you have to spend time recording [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
You’ve seen the "25 Things" meme on facebook. If you’re a blogger, you’ve probably been "tagged" before. The rise of the "share your experience" trend is heating up, and now diddit has launched to take advantage of it. What Is diddit? Well, I’m glad you asked. Diddit is a social site where you can check [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
My article titled Plinky Launches As A Blogger’s Friend, A Marketer’s Dream is now available on Media Bullseye.
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Posted on February 10th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Okay, so I think this is a question of philosophy. It’s really a question of “does it hurt to have it?” Let me back up and actually tell you what I’m talking about. The “Share this with others” buttons that have become so ubiquitous are actually starting to bother me in certain circumstances. For instance, [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Nathan Burke
Springpad, the service that offers online notebooks to manage tasks, (covered here in November) has just launched a Date planner springpad to help you plan Valentine’s Day. While that alone isn’t all that newsworthy, what was really interesting to me is how far the springpad application has come in terms of integrating with other sites. [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2009 by Jason Brandenburg
This is the first post from Jason Brandenburg, who will be covering gaming for Blogstring.com. Anyone who’s spent a good amount of time on the business end of a mouse and a web browser knows that there are a lot of fantasy gaming communities of one type or another out there. Some, like World of [...]
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