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Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

LinkedIn Rant - Part II

Let me bend your ear and scream in it about LinkedIn again.

A message in a bottle to all those to bored to read anything else.

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I’m coining a new term…

Today’s vocabulary words are blogsterbation and blog-whoring.

Mad Presentation Skillz

See Dick. See Dick talk. Talk Dick, talk.

I smell a disruptor

Amazon’s S3 is a disruptor technology. There are many different ideas about how it can be used. Here’s mine.

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SlashTagging!

Dear Reader,
Very quietly, everybody’s favorite tech news site, slashdot, has started betaing it’s tagging feature. I’m surprised, I really didn’t expect slashdot to be a follow-on, in this arena. I figured since they missed the wave, they’d just hang back and wait for the next one. Nope, they are paddling with all their might [...]

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RSS on the brain

Dear Reader,
I’ve been thinking a lot about RSS for the past couple of days. (I blame my sometimes friend Pete and all his talk about edge aggregators) Regardless of why, I’m beginning to see that it might actually be able to deliver on the promise XML made to us so many years ago. (Ubiquitous [...]

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Dear Reader,
Ok, that was taking up way too much time and getting in the way of my FreeCell. So I’ve automated it and re-launched. The page is the same but now the quotes are semi-live. (I pull an update on a regular basis from alexadex.com)
Enjoy! I hope to get back around to this sometime and [...]

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What I want in a jobs web site

Dear Reader,
It’s rare these days that slashdot has something that is compelling enough to make me read the comments. But this story really piqued my interest.
Part of it is selfish. Just last week I exchanged several emails with careerbuilder’s auto-responder bot complaining about the fact that they sell my email address to companies looking [...]

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Dear Reader,
Welcome to Part 2 of “Roles in the Blogosphere”. If you missed part 1 then I suggest you read it first. Not that it will help you understand part 2 any better but it counts as a page view in my stats. (Sue me, I’m a stats whore)
In part 1 we talked about the [...]

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