I was writing a post for one of my other blogs about Software As A Service (SaaS), when something hit me. Let me back up a little bit so I can explain. When people write about the advantages of software as a service vs. on-premise, installed software, they generally talk about: Time to value No [...]
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Yesterday I did something I said I’d never do: I got an iPhone. I really, really wanted to wait for the Palm Pre, but my Blackberry was on its last leg, and I had to make a change. Since my contract with Sprint is up later this month, I just finally decided to make the [...]
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If you’ve got a google profile, you can get 25 free business cards shipped to you in 11 days. Here’s what they’ll look like: All you have to do is go here. Pretty simple, eh? (BTW, you need to be logged in to google)
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You use firefox right? Yeah. You do. And you’ve got a blog/site right? Yeah. You do. You’re looking for more traffic and want to understand how to increase your incoming links, right? Don’t answer that one. I know what you’re thinking. For the last month or so, I’ve been developing an SEO strategy at the [...]
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Whew. April is almost over, and I’m excited. See, for some reason I felt like my blog posts were just falling apart. I was forcing them. For all my complaints about sites regurgitating press releases in order to be the first to cover a topic, I was guilty of that myself. Rather than approaching a [...]
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Just took a look at TwitterGrep, a site that aggregates twitter content and presents the info by topic….a lot like a newspaper. That’s the idea. I see TwitterGrep as a sort of TV Guide of twitter. You know there’s a lot out there, and TwitterGrep shows you where to look. It looks like this: I [...]
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A few moments ago someone walked into the Aprigo offices with what looked to be a gift. They were looking for the CEO and said they had something for him. Well, it turned out to be the cake you see on the right. They were here celebrating the 5th birthday of Ruby on Rails. The [...]
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Wow. Two full weeks without posts. That’s the longest I’ve ever gone, and I have to tell you, I am really excited to get back on the blogging horse. See, for the last week I was in Las Vegas celebrating one of two things. It was either celebrating the end of my 20s, or the [...]
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I’ve had a lot of conversations about startup monetization lately and have been noticing a trend where services are moving away from simply building a userbase and worrying about revenue later. To survive in the startup world right now, the path to making money has to be clear (especially if you’re trying to raise cash [...]
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Haven’t done this in a while, so I decided to compile a list of startup and tech events in the greater Boston area. So here goes: Tuesday, January 27 Google AdWords Best Practices from Search Engine Marketing New England (SEMNE) When: 6:30pm – 9:00pm Where: Newton Marriott, Newton, MA Cost: Free to SEMNE members, $49 [...]
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