My blogging has been pitiful lately, as I’m spending a ridiculous amount of time working. So instead of looking for things to write about, the only time I’ve been writing lately is when a story finds me somehow. But over the weekend, someone from a startup wouldn’t let me ignore them. That startup is called [...]
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Okay, we’re back. It’s weird that TechCrunch isn’t announcing the presenters until AFTER the presentation. When I look at the page for the second session, I just see:
Profiles of the presenting companies will be published here after the session.
Why not list them?
iTwin is up now. They’re a company from Singapore that allows plug and play [...]
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Yesterday in the mail I got a letter from google. Inside it contained a glossy piece of paper that thanked me for using Google Apps For Work. But here’s what it looked like when it arrived:
A couple of things to notice:
1. You can’t see it in this terrible photo, but the envelope says that this [...]
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Just found out about Panasonic’s new “Living in HD” program and giveaway. They’re basically looking for bloggers, photographers, videobloggers, etc. (anyone who creates content) to join the program, and the winner gets an entire suite of Panasonic HD toys.
What They’re Giving
Grand Prize:
A 50 inch Viera Plasma HD TV;
Two Lumix Digital Cameras – one SLR [...]
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It’s Monday morning, and I think I’ve finally organized my thoughts enough to talk a little bit about Podcamp Boston 4.
My Initial Impressions
When I looked at the session list, I immediately turned into an angry old man. One of my biggest complaints about conferences like podcamp is that all of the discussion centers around the [...]
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Twitter is down, presumably due to a DDOS attack, and facebook is really sketchy today. While checking out blogs like TechCrunch and Mashable, I noticed a pattern….the people that have just "launched" the "new social network" called Knoyce are trying to capitalize on it.
On the Mashable post entitled "Facebook Down. Twitter Down. Social Media Meltdown,"a [...]
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I’m going to skip the requisite apology for seldom posting, and am just going to jump right in.
Over at the new gig, I came up with an idea for a giveaway. The last day of July is Systems Administrators Appreciation Day, and since a good portion of our eventual target market consists of sysadmins, we [...]
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On Wednesday July 22nd the second meeting of the Boston-area Startup Marketing Meetup Group was held at Aprigo in Waltham. We had two presentations:
Matthew Mamet from PermissionTV gave a presentation on Using Video in Online Marketing (slides | blog post).
Phillip Zannini gave a presentation entitled “Starting Up Is Hard To Do”, as he shared his [...]
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I’m sorry. It does.
While looking through my RSS reader today I saw two articles back-to-back talking about developing a "personal brand". I can’t explain how angry that phrase makes me. A short list of reasons why I loathe "personal branding"
It strips away our humanity and turns us into a fictional concept
It describes something so inherently [...]
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You know you may have a problem when you see something when driving and think “Wow. That’s a good example of search engine optimization.” You are certain that you have a problem when you then take a photo of said location and blog about it.
The photo:
I apologize for the quality of the image. It was [...]
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