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#140conf – Interview with Dave Mathews of PeopleBrowsr

I have been using PeopleBrowsr since their beta and when I was at the 140Conf I was pleasantly surprised by two things: their upgraded platform and that Dave Mathews is involved in helping them become an even bigger success. I first met Dave at Gnomedex 2007 when he was working with this little company called [...]

#140conf – Interview with John Yamasaki of Seesmic

I first met John Yamasaki, or as his friends call him, Yama, at the Gnomedex conference last August. He is an evangelist at Seesmic, maker of the Twitter console tool of the same name. He has an extremely high enthusiasm for the Seesmic platform as you would expect of any product evangelist. I caught up [...]

Social Media Workshop for Small Business – Richmond, VA on 11/20

In today’s market where everything revolves around Google, how do you ensure that your prospective customers are finding YOU online among millions of other brands? The main reason why social media marketing is such a phenomena is its ability to transform an unknown name into a popular brand online. So how do you get started? [...]

LinkTogether Wins BEST Portal Website

The WebAwards have been around since 1997 and they have an annual awards competition for all types of sites in various categories.
Here at Network Solutions, we are thrilled to share with everyone that LinkTogether™ was recently recognized as the 2009 Best Portal Website for Outstanding Achievement in Web Development by the Web Marketing Association! The Web [...]

Lessons from the VCR Clock Flashing 12:00

So, continuing some thoughts I started in my earlier entry, “Things That I Don’t Understand” (a limitless topic, to be sure), I revisit the VCR Clock Flashing “12:00″ Scenario (where the inability to program one’s VCR, as demonstrated by the flashing 12:00 on the VCR display, was an indicator of other forms of technological incompetence.)
Now [...]

#140conf – Day 2 Recap from 140Conf LA

Starting out on Day 2, my brain needed some caffeine fuel so once I hit a very popular chain and got my Cafe Americano to jump onto the 140 Conference here in LA. This day started with some intense topics – education, public health and the mainstream media.  So let’s get to the recap of [...]

PSA : Network Solutions Email Latency Nov 4th

Update Nov 5th, 2009 12.38 p.m
The  email services for customers impacted from yesterday’s issue should be back to normal. In cases where customers are still having issues we are advising them to contact our 24/7  Network Solutions Customer Support at 1-800-333-7680 or open a ticket on our support page at http://www.networksolutions.com/help/email.jsp

Update : Nov 4, 2009 @ 14:34
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Get Your Message Across Better With Presenter Pro.

Several weeks ago, I met with an an interesting company that produces perhaps a most useful product…all currently available on the iPhone. Remarkably, this is perhaps one of the most important apps out there right now that provides useful and business-specific help to professionals who often times may have to go out and talk in [...]

#140conf – Day 1 Recap from 140Conf LA

I arrived on Monday in Los Angeles to attend the “Very Important Characters (VIC)” event and got to see some old friends and meet some new ones. After a great evening I got a great night’s sleep and got to the Kodak Theatre early to see everything kick off.
I have been to LA more times [...]

Things That I Don’t Understand

Back in the days of Internet Bubble 1.0 (right around the turn of the popular millennium), I used to pause every once in a while to look around at the swirling maelstrom of Internet-enabled technologies that we (and that’s a very collective “we”) were unleashing on the world.
Sure, maybe a lot of it didn’t make [...]