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Corporate Disobedience Operation Chokehold
Image via CrunchBase Well this is interesting from a civil/corporate disobedience viewpoint, and an interesting way of looking at flash mobbing a place/product/service to see what the upward limits are. Fake Steve Jobs has proposed that IPhone...
Just a quick note about Twitter SEO and Social Marketing
Image by Getty Images via Daylife If you are planning to use Twitter to help raise buzz for your company, there are some things you do need to note. Many Twitter users use Autofollow – but many do not, and fake following is quickly becoming ...
Why you must fact check your stories
Image via CrunchBase Only narrowly did I advert a major mistake in facts when I started a blogging rant against Alltop in an entry never to be published. The trigger for the rant was a notice from fairshare that Alltop was not linking back to ...
How to Crash a party or do not send a URL and password through twitter
Image by luc legay via Flickr Hey everyone, guess who is having a party at their house! Well everyone in the whole world knows at this point if you have been following people on Twitter. One of the basic rules of social networking is always wo...
Industry Expert Panel Discussion on Data Privacy
Image by pchow98 via Flickr We all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of ...
Facebook fan Pages the inside interface
Image via CrunchBase Not many people administrate Fan Pages, but there is a wealth of information that can be gained about people who are making themselves fans. This information is particularly helpful when trying to work out if you are hitting t...
Building a streaming Video in the Cloud using Apples Darwin Server
Image via CrunchBase We are in the process of building out our own streaming video server at the school, and tinkered around with Darwin from Apple for a bit. While it ended up not being the product we are going to stick with because it needs a co...
Why is it so hard to innovate in Online Education
Image by judy_breck via Flickr Also cross posted here. With the number of totally cool tools that Schools can use, why are we still waiting for online education to move past blackboard and other systems that are essentially static, unfriendly to ...
As college students reject the kindle what ebook reader is going to work
Image via CrunchBase As students begin to reject the Amazon Kindle ebook reader, the idea of ebooks as text books for colleges should start taking center stage. What device or system is going to truly work for busy students who want to use ebo...
Google has an outage lets not blame cloud computing this time
Image via CrunchBase Every time Google has an outage the press immediately jumps on the idea that somehow cloud computing itself is to blame. This is a wrongheaded viewpoint, because it is not simply a cloud issue, it is a total systems issue,...
Another downside to Twitter Any cute guys out there
We recently put one of my established companies on twitter and selected some very good people to follow based on what we were doing and what the vertical for that company is and what we are about. The interesting part to this is that we put this up o...
What did you learn from your failures
Image via Wikipedia I have been reading what Fred wrote over at AVC on failure, and how failure tends to redefine the things we do as long as we learn from those failures. Some people do learn from failure and successfully work out ways to mitigat...
Upgrade your Wordpress blog today
Image via CrunchBase If you do nothing else today hackers have been busy coming up with a new Wordpress hack that is making the rounds this week. While Wordpress hacks are nothing new, Lorelle on Wordpress says that this attack is going to be bad,...
1984 or Panopticon
Image via Wikipedia Zoli Erdos over at Cloud Avenue brings up an interesting point about USA search and seizure of electronic systems at the border, there is always a way around any restriction put in place. What makes this always interesting is t...
Probably the most interesting speech of the day at Gnomedex 09
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Had the opportunity to listen to one of the older purveyors of Pill Spam on blogs, Pligg, and other social networks. I owned a Pligg site there for a bit and was intimately wrapped up in the Pligg comment spam iss...
Chris Brogan and Julian Smith Second Speakers at Gnomedex 09
Image by BryanPerson via Flickr The attention wars heat up with the second speaker at Gnomedex, while we are all here at the conference and on twitter and on FriendFeed and on Facebook or the social network of choice that we use, how do we manage ...
Getting the Perfect Interview First Speaker at Gnomedex 09
Image via Wikipedia Well this is an image that is burned in my brain, if you want to be a good interviewer you need to approach this from the idea of being a good lover. The first speaker today Warren Ethridge is talking about being the best at in...
Follow up and close out of the Month of Startup Hades
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Things are finally starting to return to normal, we had a bumper crop of sales over the last week, and got our internal problems solved. What is interesting is that rather than “go be your creative best” the l...
A Month of Fail
Image by dichohecho via Flickr Ever had one of those exceptional months were you have not only caught the fail boat, but threw a fail boat party and no one else showed up? This is the world of failure, deep hard core failure that you have to step ...
News Corp saber rattling threatens to sue Google and Yahoo and looks to reevaluate the Kindle
Image via CrunchBase I do not run News Corp, I do not make any decisions for them, I do not know what their balance sheets look like, but what is important is that according to reports on the Inquistr and on CNN, it looks like Rupert Murdoch is se...
Rise and fall of Blognation Follow up
Image by noodlepie via Flickr Today is an interesting day in the ongoing saga of Blognation, Sam Sethi and Michael Arrington. While I have written about this in the past, there is one final chapter in this story, and that is the default judgment i...
It is my second interview and this is where we talk about where information security is going
Image by Bejan via Flickr What has been interesting is the amount of interest in the information security program that we have written lately, and this includes how we are using technology in an educational environment, as well as the view of info...
What is the influence of the current economic crisis on American Culture
Image by Lone_f via Flickr Andy Sack who is one of the more interesting VC people in Seattle got asked the question “What has been the influence/impact of the current economic crisis on American Culture”. In all this is a very good question to...
Big Gamble Big Loss the Fisher Plaza Datacenter Fire
Image via Wikipedia Disaster recovery, it is one of those IT 101 issues, there is no viable good reason to not have a hot/cold spare site in the day and age of cloud computing, data centers stitched across the planet, and while it is not trivial, ...
It is that time again Gnomedex 09 in August 2009
Image by Randy Stewart via CrunchBase Probably one of the few useful conventions you go can go to when it comes to mixing and meeting some of the more interesting folks in social media is upcoming in August, with some surprise bonuses along the w...
Two weeks into my social networking project
Image by Getty Images via Daylife The first two weeks of a social networking project are critical to make sure you are being found in all the places that you needed to be found. The other interesting part is how quickly spammers and scrapers will ...
Bootstrapped Company managing rejection
Image via Wikipedia When you are bootstrapping your company, sometimes you get a lot of rejection from the bank, and for my startup bookstore, rejection from the bank comes two weeks before the consummation of a deal that would throw us into a hig...
Rebranding my Startup
Image via Wikipedia Noticed on the Seattle 2.0 list they have a book store in their startup listing, taking a look through the competitor’s web site, I decided that if I wanted to get on the Seattle 2.0 startup list, then it might be a good idea...
Phase two of the social media plan goes live
Image by luc legay via Flickr Phase two of my social media plan for the school went live this week; you can find the department web site at http://cs.cityu.edu. This is the next major step on the technology side for building out the social media c...
Innovation Economics
Image via Wikipedia One of the new research arms not just in academia, but in business as well is a model that can predict the outcome of innovation, who has it, how do they use it, how can we harness it for personal or corporate advantage/gain. ...
