It’s been too long!

January 26, 2010

Wow! It has been six months since I posted a blog entry - way too long. 2010 is a new year and with it comes another crazy New Year’s resolution. I’m going to get back to blogging and start posting an entry per month. Hopefully I make it to February!
Podcamp 2010 happen in Dartmouth last [...]

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Facebook Connect - Honestly I had no idea!

July 2, 2009

It’s hilarious how you can be speculating one day about revenue models that Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg should implement and then the next day you read an article on how he’s doing exactly what you were thinking he should do. I must have read about this somewhere and subconsciously packed it away in my mind.
The following [...]

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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

Facebook, is it really changing the world?

July 1, 2009

Facebook currently has over 200 million user profiles logged in their database and have the attention of its users for over 5 billion minutes per day. Many of these users load their life stories into their Facebook profiles and as time goes on their public dairy becomes a reflection of who they are in the [...]

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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

I’m guilty, but $88 bucks for a coffee!

June 27, 2009

I love technology and especially mobile gadges. My iPhone has re-defined the meaning of “Man’s best friend”. In the 80’s I had a bag phone (e.g. for those who are in their teens please see the picture below), I owned one of the first PalmPilots with a whopping 32 mb memory chip and I was [...]

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Saturday, June 27th, 2009 advertising, brand, iphone 25 Comments

Do you really need to go into the office?

May 24, 2009

Skype, Twitter, Yammer, Slideshare, Linkedin, Wikis and many other social media tools are changing how we work. The traditional workspace is moving from a physical location in an office to a virtual space where people share information, ideas, conversations and knowledge online. The water cooler banter is happening on Twitter, the business presentation on Slideshare [...]

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Sunday, May 24th, 2009 Uncategorized 3 Comments

Facebook COO on Starbucks board

March 28, 2009

Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer for Facebook, has recently joined the board of directors for Starbucks. The coffee retailer has been going through some rough times recently with the US economy in the dumper, it seems more people are opting out on their $5 lattes. It’s interesting to see that Starbucks’ restructuring process requires [...]

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Saturday, March 28th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

My DVR Conspiracy Theory

January 31, 2009

A few weeks ago I wrote an entry on my DVR conspiracy thoery. No doubt my passion for John Grisham novels is starting to cloud reality. When I first saw the Kennedy assisaination I sat for hours watching the fence by the knoll trying to see the face of the real shooter. I mean come [...]

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Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Mac eliminates the keyboard!

January 29, 2009

As a converted Mac user, I’m always on the hunt for new toys. I found the following video on a news site out of the US that talks about how Apple has developed a new “keyless” Macbook Air. Jobs has out done himself again. Marketing genius!

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

A Pod Camp virgin

January 26, 2009

I felt a bit like Steve Carell in the 40 year old virgin today. If you haven’t noticed from my profile or some of my blog posts, I’m an older spirit and with age most would expect that there would be a certain level of wisdom and knowledge. After travelling the world for 20 years [...]

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Monday, January 26th, 2009 Social Networking, Uncategorized 5 Comments

Digital Video Recorders - Why doesn’t everyone have one?

December 30, 2008

Who wants to watch a commercial when you can buy a recorder that will bypass disruptive TV ads and deliver just the meat? I would think everyone would want to get rid of commercials, right? Well just about everyone. The television networks and ad agency in the US are probably not in a big rush [...]

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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 Uncategorized No Comments