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Discussions of marketing, technology, development and WordPress by Douglas A Karr in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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• We vs. You! Are you Tuned In?

  Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 22:23 in business, business breakthroughs, david meerman scott, extraordinary, Marketing, phil myers, pragmatic, pragmaticmarketing, technology, tuned in

  After reading quite a bit of Tuned In, I was really intrigued by one of the questions posed by the team at Pragmatic Marketing. Is your website talking about your company or is it talking about your ...

• Techpoint Presents Patronpath

  Posted on Tuesday August 5th, 2008 at 09:01 in cantaloupe, food service, Indianapolis, patronpath, technology, techpoint, videos

  I’ve reduced the size of the video a little to fit in my blog, so some of the graphics look a little distorted. You can see this full video at Techpoint’s Video Magazine. This is a video...

• How to Update a WordPress Event Sidebar from iCal using Google Calendar (and other Google Fun!)

  Posted on Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 22:00 in caldav, development, events, gmail, google apps, google code, google notifier, google talk badge, ical wordpress integration, technology, wordpress, wordpress calendar plugin

  This week I signed my personal site up for Google Apps. I’ve been getting a mountain of Spam since my email address hasn’t changed in years and my host (though I love them) will charge $1...

• How to Add Cuil to your Firefox Search

  Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 23:03 in cuil, Firefox, firefox search, firefox search add-on, firefox search plugin, technology

  I took a shot at Cuil earlier, but one thing I noticed was that they didn’t have a Search Engine plugin for Firefox yet! So - I added a button to my Custom Search Engine Firefox Thingy so that ...

• Honest Mac vs. Honest PC

  Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 21:07 in honest, humor, mac, mac boy, mac versus pc, mac vs pc, PC, technology, videos, wilson

  My first attempt at animating a popular post I did early last year, an honest conversation between Mac and PC. GoAnimate is a neat application - though I ran into some trouble in the later frames, pe...

• Cuil, the Cool Search Engine… Oops

  Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 12:32 in cuil, drop-down, Firefox, humor, search engine, technology

  I was trying out Cuil today, the new search engine, and I was going to add it to my list of search engines available in Firefox. However, they didn’t have a pre-made add-on ready so I was going...

• You Don’t Know what Marketing is

  Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 10:35 in blog, blogging, cluetrain manifesto, doc searl, email, farmers market, market, Marketing, markets are conversations, mediums, social media, technology

  Have you given much thought to the word Marketing? As with many words, the definition has been distorted and redefined over time. Wikipedia provides the following definition: Marketing is an ongoing...

• A Masterpiece in Usability and Design: Onehub

  Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 19:34 in application design, design, development, product management, project management, software design, technology, usability, web 20, web design

  As a b-list blogger, you often become the target of business authors, software developers, and search engine opportunists who want you to promote their wares. I love being the target of this attentio...

• Why isn’t Networking in Every Curriculum?

  Posted on Monday July 21st, 2008 at 20:09 in business, class, curriculum, employment, investment, leadership, network, Networking, school, social media, social network, technology

  This afternoon I was invited to an incredible lunch and discussion with Indiana Business College. Indiana is well-known for having some of the finest schools in the country, and in the world, but the...

• Trying to Hit A Splogger where It Hurts…

  Posted on Monday July 21st, 2008 at 09:34 in blogging, copyright, copyright violation, creative commons, dmca, splog, technology, theft

  I’ve decided to go to war with a splogger who’s hijacked my feed and is releasing my content under his name and website. He’s running advertising and making money off of my siteR...

• Getting Removed from Comcast’s Blacklist

  Posted on Friday July 18th, 2008 at 15:53 in AOL, blacklist, blocking, can-spam, Comcast, dns, dns blocking, email, email marketing, emailmarketing, permission, technology

  If you’re sending a lot of email from your application of via email marketing, you need to ensure you’re site is whitelisted with the major Internet Service Providers. I’ve previous...

• True Story: Drop Database? Click… Doh!

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 19:31 in backup, best host, best hosting company, drop database, hosting companies, jumpline, technology, wordpress, wordpress backup, wordpress database backup

  The following is a true story, dated today at approximately 11:00 AM while on my way out to lunch. This is NOT a paid post, but I have added a HUGE link to the company in appreciation of them saving ...

• Creativity versus Copyright

  Posted on Wednesday July 9th, 2008 at 09:55 in business, copyright, creativity, larry lessig, technology, ted, video, videos

  This is, perhaps, one of the best discussions of how copyright laws (IMO) are not simply unfair, but also a bane to our culture’s creativity. The pain caused by these laws is exacerbated by the expl...

• Southside Smoosier Tech Club

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 22:27 in Indianapolis, smaller indiana, smoosier, technology, videos

  I may have had a bit too much fun with iMovie on this video! This was the first meeting of the Southside Smoosier Tech Club at The Bean Cup. Join the club over at Smaller Indiana. We’ll see y...

• Configuring an Internal PC for External Access

  Posted on Monday July 7th, 2008 at 11:39 in dynamic ip, firewall, iis, pcanywhere, port 5631, port 5632, port 5900, port 80, port forwarding, ports, realvnc, router configuration

  With the adoption of firewalls and routers, connecting to another computer via the Internet has become a real challenge. If you’d like to configure your computer so external access is possible,...

• 238 Reasons to Buy Age of Conversations 2

  Posted on Thursday July 3rd, 2008 at 16:54 in ageofconversation, blogging, book reviews, business, drewmclellan, feed, gavinheaton, Marketing, ponyfish, rss, SEM, social media

  The releases are signed, the chapters have been submitted and now, the editing has begun. The following 237 folks have written a 1-page article in the Age of Conversations for 2008. This is a great ...

• 3 Essential Requirements for any Web Application

  Posted on Tuesday July 1st, 2008 at 22:40 in agency, agency application requirements, api, application programming interface, automation, development, enterprise, enterprise application requirements, integration, product management, requirements, technology

  More and more, I find myself asking vendors and companies the same questions over and over. If you’re thinking about developing your own application, these are 3 features that need to be integr...

• When Malls become Datacenters…

  Posted on Sunday June 29th, 2008 at 05:33 in bomb shelter, data center, datacenter, Indianapolis, mall, mall conversion, sas70, technology, tier 4, tier iv

  Yesterday was a great day at The Bean Cup. Patric stopped by from Noobie, Doug Theis from Lifeline Datacenters and later in the day, Adam from Text By Request. Lifeline Datacenters has a really cool,...

• Google Site Search on SERP?

  Posted on Friday June 27th, 2008 at 09:30 in google, how to search a site with google, search engine, search engine results page, SEM, serp, site search, technology

  Good friend and co-worker, Marty Bird, pointed out this interesting feature that I’ve not seen before on Google. The ability to do a site search within an actual search result: I utilize Site ...

• Testing Leadership with Telecommuting

  Posted on Thursday June 26th, 2008 at 21:51 in leadership, productivity, technology, telecommuting

  This evening I met with Pat Coyle and other Smoosiers at Pat’s Open House at Smaller Indiana Headquarters. One great discussion I had was with Lalita Amos, a Leadership Coach and Human Resource...

• Update on Cisco I-Prize Finals

  Posted on Tuesday June 24th, 2008 at 11:33 in business, business week, cisco, douglas karr, finals, homefront, i-prize, iprize, technology

  For those of you cheering us on in the Cisco I-Prize Contest: Cisco I-Prize Finalists, We appreciate your patience and understand that you are anxiously awaiting the results. We need to ask you to b...

• Hunting Teens with Shotguns

  Posted on Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 23:13 in Advertising, database marketing, facebook marketing, Marketing, music marketing, myspace marketing, social media, targeting, technology, teenagers, teens, video game marketing

  I’ve been guilty of bashing Manufacturing here in Indiana as much as the next guy. When I think manufacturing job, I picture a guy in coveralls doing some monotonous production assembly line wo...

• Firefox 3 Review, Robots, Add-ons and Tweaks

  Posted on Friday June 20th, 2008 at 04:58 in about config, about robots, bookmarks, delicious, delicious wordpress, Firefox, firefox 3, firefox review, firefox tweaks, links, mozilla firefox, technology

  It’s the second day with Mozilla Firefox 3 and I’ve already dislodged Safari from my dock. The browser is quite fast (I’m guessing until all my popular add-ons and a few security up...

• Companies turning to Internal Social Networks

  Posted on Wednesday June 18th, 2008 at 06:30 in business, collaboration, google moma, intranet, leadership, Microsoft, microsoft townsquare, microsoft web, Networking, social media, social network, technology

  There’s a ton of information about all the Social Networks out on the web, but a movement has been afoot to bring some of the advantages of social networks to the Intranet as well. I did some r...

• Video: Sliderocket Beta Coming Soon!

  Posted on Tuesday June 17th, 2008 at 10:00 in beta, collaboration, Microsoft, powerpoint, ppt, presentation, sliderocket, technology

  Click through if you don’t see the video. Excerpt: You’ve seen Microsoft’s PowerPoint. But you’ve never seen an Internet-enabled, collaborative presentation tool like Sliderock...

• MBP: Micro-Blogging Provider and Protocol

  Posted on Friday June 13th, 2008 at 11:02 in brightkit, friendfeed, Jaiku, micro-blogging, plurk, pownce, qik, scoble, seesmic, technology, tumblr, twitter

  It’s time! You folks may have read about the tiff a while back between Robert Scoble and Twitter. Scoble did meet with Twitter and resolve the situation. Some folks are speaking about a busin...

• Why did Typepad make a Wordpress Anti-Spam Plugin?

  Posted on Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 08:50 in antispam, business, comment spam, plugin, sixapart, technology, typepad, wordpress

  I ran the new Typepad Anti-spam plugin for over a week and both Typepad and Akismet identified exactly the same comments as spam. This makes me curious. Why did Typepad write their own plugin? If p...