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You might be surprised by this little fact, but I have been in the newspaper business twice in my life. Once in advertising design, and once as an owner of a weekly newspaper. I don’t think that makes me an expert on print, but I do think it gives me a unique perspective given I [...]
Why Facebook is no threat to Twitter and Vice-Versa…
In: Online
10 Mar 2009I have only been using Twitter regularly for about a month. While I am totally enjoying it, this article on Adage.com brings me to a crossroads on where I feel Twitter fits in. Right now I have about 75 friends on Facebook and about 50/140 (Following/Followers) on Twitter. The interesting thing about them? They are [...]
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- Tags: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter
How would you use a social network at work?
In: Online
6 Mar 2009No, I don’t mean how would you use Facebook or Myspace at work. If there was a social network that allowed you to keep up with and communicate with your co-workers, what would you expect? This isn’t a blog to tell you what I think it should be, but to solicit opinion and commentary. What [...]
5 Rules for getting something out of Twitter
In: Online
1 Mar 2009I have been making a concerted effort to understand and use Twitter lately. I posted just a few weeks ago about how I didn’t get Twitter at all. That was sixteen days ago. What have I learned about Twitter in the last 16 days? I have learned quite a bit, but these 5 simple rules [...]
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Making Sense of Twitter
In: Online
10 Feb 2009I don’t know him, we have a few friends in common, but I doubt he has ever heard my name unless he came across my blog articles on World of Warcraft, he is apparently a big player. … I actually do know Major Nelson, although that’s not what I call him, but as an avid Xbox player, I am interested in what’s going on with the network. … On MySpace, well, I cancelled MySpace 
So this is what my feed looks like right now: 
Alex likes NCIS, I read a book (which I already knew), there are new clothes for Xbox 360 Avatars, Alex is back in LA, Major Nelson dislikes satellite radio drama, and he is at a hotel, I am watching lame 80s movie shortly, Alex finished taping Diggnation and posted a pic, and I wrote a blog article…..
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- Tags: Twitter
GDrive coming in 2009? So what…
In: Online
20 Jan 2009Christian Zibreg from tgdaily’s latest article would have you believe that hard drives are an endangered species and that Google’s online storage offering that is expected to drop soon will manage to cast the death blow and manage to take down Windows and traditional operating systems at the same time. Wow, that’s a tall order. [...]
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- Tags: Live Mesh
Does Apple Monitor the Apple Support Forums At All?
In: Online
18 Jan 2009Now I have had this hunch for quite a while. I am not sure what experiences other people have had, but despite the “it just works” marketing hoopla, many times our Macs don’t just work. In recent memory I have had problems in OS X, Logic, iTunes and iPhoto just to name a few. These [...]
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- Tags: Apple, iPhone, iTunes
Myspace vs. Facebook: The Metaphor
In: Online
24 Nov 2008I was about 12 years old when a kid on my block showed up with a Huffy freestyle bike. All he ever did on it was pop wheelies and try to bunny hop cracks in the street in our neighborhood. Somehow we all thought it was really cool. We sat on the sidewalk on our [...]
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- Tags: Facebook
A British woman is divorcing her husband after discovering his online alter-ego was having an affair with a virtual woman in the fantasy world of Second Life, media reported on Friday. Amy Taylor, 28, said her three-year marriage to David Pollard, 40, came to an end when she twice walked in on him watching his [...]
I wonder, does Yahoo even matter anymore?
In: Online
6 Nov 2008I was reading this article on Jerry Yang and his direction for the flailing Yahoo company and a question occurred to me. Does Yahoo even matter anymore? Is it relevant? Would it be missed? I am starting to think not. When I go over the list of all the things I do on the web, [...]
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WordPress 2.7 beta1 First Impressions
In: Online|Web Authoring
1 Nov 2008I decided to take the plunge and give the beta a try on my main blog so here you have it. Philoking.com is running the WordPress 2.7 beta1 in production. From the viewer perspective it should be transparent. For, it’s already a dream. The back end UI has had a total facelift and some of [...]
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How fly is Microsoft Live Mesh?
In: Online
31 Oct 2008So here is the scenario. I have a crap load of computers. Any given day, it’s very likely that my grubby little hands touch three Windows Vista desktops, one Windows Vista laptop, a Windows XP laptop, two Mac desktops and a Mac laptop. I also carry a Windows Mobile phone. All in all that is [...]
Get Access To Your Files From Anywhere with FolderShare!
In: Online
10 Oct 2008There is nothing worse than needing that file you left sitting on your desktop at home and having to drive home to get it. I have seen countless solutions over the years from Norton’s PCAnywhere to Go2MyPC, and more recently the beta of Mesh and Apple’s MobileMe. All have had their problems, but last night [...]
Code Snippet Example for Live Writer
In: Online
20 Sep 20081: <script type="text/javascript"> 2: 3: window.onload = function() { 4: 5: //define message default 6: document.getElementById(‘message’).innerHTML = "(please press a button…)"; 7: 8: //setup events 9: document.getElementById(‘btnStart’).onclick = playIt; 10: document.getElementById(‘btnStop’).onclick = stopIt; 11: 12: } 13: 14: function playIt() { 15: document.getElementById(‘message’).innerHTML = "you pressed PLAY"; 16: document.getElementById(‘btnStart’).style.backgroundColor = ‘yellow’; 17: document.getElementById(‘btnStop’).style.backgroundColor = ‘#ccc’; [...]
So I decided to do a completely unbiased set of blogs on Google Search vs. Microsoft Live Search. It should be know that although I work for Microsoft, I pretty much use Google Search exclusively. Thinking about that today, I wondered why. This set of blogs is an attempt to answer that question, help me [...]
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- Tags: Google, Live Search, Microsoft
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