Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Zappos was one of the companies that I mentioned in my Twitter presentation yesterday.
Today, Kelly Mooney posted a great article about Zappos and Twitter: What is Zappos doing.
Technorati Tags: Zappos, Twitter
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I gave a presentation on Twitter today at Barkley and I had several requests to share the information so I thought the easiest way would be to post it on my blog.
As you might have noticed, my blogging has trailed off recently as I've been spending more time with Twitter ...
Posted in Barkley, advertising, freshish thinking, research, social, technology, twitter | 1 Comment »
Friday, March 14th, 2008
I like lists.
I stumbled upon a great list of called To Lead, You Have to Follow: 8 Traits of Effective IT Leaders
Leadership means focusing on the needs of others, not yourself
Leadership comes from your actions, not your title
Leadership makes you accountable, even if it's not your fault
Leadership is not a ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
I'm always amazed at the resourcefulness of of senders of SPAM.
We all know that SPAM is a huge problem for everyone.
As I wrote back in October, SPAM accounts for about 95% of all email traffic.
Via Wikipedia, ASCII art is an artistic medium that consists of pictures pieced ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I've been talking with Paul over at Stampkit about Google search results recently.
We all know that Google results is important to the success of a site. Sure, there is more to life than organic search, but it sure doesn't hurt to come up in the top results.
In the US, Google ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
If you are reading this then you have stumbled upon the new server for shakegently.
I've been absent from posting for a week as I waited for my domain registrar transfer to complete. I was previously using the wordpress.com hosting service to host my blog (with my own domain).
I outgrew ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I was checking out my Technorati page and noticed they still had a thumbnail image from forever ago.
So I did a bit of searching on how to update the image, and, as it turns out, the image used to pulled from Alexa, but now is pulled from Snap.
It is pretty ...
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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Mary Meeker presented some interesting items at the Web 2.0 Summit.
Its a good reminder that there are still plenty of opportunities. I'm also in agreement with Russell from MobHappy that the next big wave is mobile.
Comparing 2007 top sites (according to Alexa, which is obviously skewed in results terms) ...
Posted in event, research, technology | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Earlier this year Google announced they would be building a data center in western Iowa. I was happy to see them invest in the Midwest.
Today I read an interesting idea about Google partnering with a few other Silicon Valley companies to partner / buy out some Sprint assets to ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
I like to follow trends in the UK for things such as mobile marketing, because they tend to be a few years ahead.
Today I read (via MarketingVOX) that Social Network Traffic Surpasses Web-based Email in UK.
Younger internet users — those age 18 to 34 — tend to visit social-network sites ...
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