opinion-and-editorial
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Cacoo’s freemium business model kicking into gear
One of my favorite web apps is growing up. Cacoo will soon come out of beta and will start offering paid plans. Cacoo, if you don’t know is an online diagram making application. Similar to Visio and ConceptDraw products, but its all online and its free. That is until now, well maybe a few more…
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Tarpipe, Learning by Example
Here’s a quick video I put together to show you what Tarpipe does. If a picture is worth 1000 words, a video must be worth millions. This example shows an email being sent out with an image attached to the email. The email produces a new picture posted to Flickr, and the link for the…
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Behind the scenes with Gary Vaynerchuk at Wine Library TV
If you know me, you know I’m a big fan of this guy. He’s genuine and has some really good advice on doing what you love. This is cool stuff. Video (if you didn’t know), it’s where its at.
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Four of the best purchases I’ve ever made
I have a list of things I really like and I’ve bought over time. I don’t want to bore you telling you about all of them, but here are the top four that come to mind right now. Apple MacBook Pro. I’ve never had a computer stay relevant with me for this long. And I…
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Intensedebate trial on my blog is a fail
I don’t get very many comments around here, so I’m not sure that this is even a valid opinion. A few months ago I decided to change a few things round on my blog so I can play around with different settings and options. One of these changes involved replacing the built-in comment system on…
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On Reciprocity in Social Media
Reciprocity. Main Entry: rec·i·proc·i·ty Pronunciation: \ËŒre-sÉ™-ˈprä-s(É™-)tÄ“\ Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural rec·i·proc·i·ties Date: 1766 1 : the quality or state of being reciprocal : mutual dependence, action, or influence I’m torn about this and I hope to explain why. Reciprocity is a problem right now in Social Media, its a rampant epidemic that needs to…
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Henry Markram: Supercomputing the brain’s secrets
An amazing video about the computational power of the human brain.
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Google buys Metaweb.
I read this headline today, and the first thing I wondered was, who is Metaweb?. And I found this cool video. It looks very promising, very top view and a lot of pixie dust but I’d be interested to know how this actually works. Now how do these magically connected entities actually work? source –…
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Top level links that should always work on your website.
I’ve always thought that there are several links that should always work on a website. When a link doesn’t exist, if you type it in you will likely get a 404 page. I put together a list of 5 links that should never give you a 404 page, they should always redirect you to the…
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CentOS Installation over WWW
I put together this video on how to install CentOS 5 over the internet. This saves you the time of downloading and burning discs and instead uses one of the many public mirrors with all the sources available. Its best if you view it at a larger resolution and full screen to see details. If…