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Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

Desert Island Twitter Game

If you were stranded on a desert island, what 5 twitterers would you follow? Here are mine.

Dear Reader,
Over at the Small Business Idea Forum, Staci asked about twitter and I replied. This, along with a couple of other things today are pointing me towards a blog post and possible a podcast this weekend.
Twitter has gone from WTH to ZOMG to “Hey, I can use this for my benefit!” I [...]

Join the Podcast Generation!

Dear Reader,
I was talking to a friend of mine recently and mentioned that I have a podcast (yes, I routinely try and convert my friends to podcast listeners.) His response to me was “Yes, I have an iPod but I’m just not a member of the podcast generation”. His problem is that he is suffering [...]

Dear Reader,
My breakfast buddy Bill Seaver posted a real interesting post on his blog titled “Blogs Will Kill The Web Design Star”. I started a comment to it but it quickly grew into a post by itself. So before you read this, go visit Bill’s blog and read it. (and while you are surfing, [...]

Does It Sell Stuff?

Scott Sigler has another project and while this one won’t creep you out, it’s still a must read for anyone in new marketing.

For Liz Smith…

Dear Reader,
I was playing around with bitstrips.com today and this is what I came up with. Props to Liz Smith for the content.

Not sure how I feel about bitstrips.com. Like a lot of Web 2.0 projects, …it’s cute but what’s the point? (I wasn’t aware that the web needed a youtube for [...]

I’m tired of services that continually lock me out of using my data for my purposes. Here are two examples, tivo and linkedin.

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The Importance of Twitter

Twitter is more than just the latest fad, it’s actually important for other reasons.

Speak English, not Marketeese

Dear Reader,
Of late I’ve noticed a disturbing trend, people talking about “Web 3.0″. I’ve received IMs, Facebook questions, and most recently, this blog on what Web 3.0 really is. Enough!
Someone ask me the other day why the term Web 2.0 took off where “Semantic Web” faltered. The answer is easy. Web 2.0 is [...]

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Just Say No to SEO

Dear Reader,
I’m in a discussion over at johnon.com about SEO. The owner of that blog, John, took issue with my review of this book. Even after asking him and receiving his response, I was still not sure why he insisted on talking about the Zend Framework in a post that was obviously about my [...]


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