Monthly Archives: 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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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