Archive for March, 2009
DonorsChoose.org
As a presenter at the SalesForce.com annual conference (DreamForce ‘09) I was given a $100 gift card for DonorsChoose.org , an organization that uses the web to match donors with projects in schools that require funding. From the project that I chose:
“Help me teach the language to my preschoolers! I teach public preschool in an [...]
Posted: March 28th, 2009 under Daily Life, SalesForce.com.
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QR Campaigns
I was in a discussion about QR (Quick Response – which are two dimensional barcodes), and was told about baseball cards using this data to generate 3D images. You hold the card up to your webcam, and on the screen you get an image.
Some stats here, and links to campaigns by Ford and Pepsi and [...]
Posted: March 24th, 2009 under Brain Buster.
Comments: 2
Social Media Lies – Like Trackbacks are Good
Clay Shirky has written a great post about newspapers and the future of journalism.
The other thing that struck me about this post was the number of worthless trackbacks. I’ve started to look at blogs along a spectrum where the degree of interactivity is inversely related to the popularity of the author/blog owner (which, for the [...]
Posted: March 15th, 2009 under Brain Buster, Prognostication.
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Playing with the Kindle
I was messing around last night trying to see what a Kindle graphic novel might look like:
This really didn’t work, I had the PDF from a DVD that Marvel used to sell, but the two page spread is too much for the small screen to take. It will be interesting to see how long it [...]
Posted: March 14th, 2009 under Fanboy, Geek Stuff.
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TiVo using Bonjour
This will only be of interest to the most hardcore video geeks (perhaps only half of the readers here). I just upgraded to the latest version of TivoToGo – the program that gets TV shows off my TiVo and on to my PC, and then converts them to a format that I can watch on [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under Geek Stuff, Prognostication.
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Google Aligns Itself with Big Brands?
This is one of the most interesting and well written articles on SEO that I have seen in a while:
Aaron Wall on Google and Branding
Not only does it cover current events but also has some history of the game.
Posted: March 4th, 2009 under SEO and Paid Search.
Comments: 1
Best Served Cold
So I’ve had a couple of emails about discount codes and the like for the Web 2.0 Show, March, in San Francisco.
If I remember correctly this is the show that I wasn’t cool enough to attend a few years back.
I’ve already got another event on the calendar, but if you guys comp me a pass [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2009 under Daily Life.
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