The Beauty of 1.0

A few months ago, a friend reminded me of “The Beauty of 1.0″… or the idea of just jumping out there and trying. Who cares if you mess it up?
For a while I’ve been unfocused or, euphemistically “wide-lensed”, and really “sponging” up information.  My number of twitter followees is out of control and the amount [...]

Google Talk: Group Chat and New Emoticons

Google Talk now enables conference-like group chats.
From their site:
Just launched!
Chat just got better with group chat and new emoticons
Group chat
Chat with multiple people without multiple windows. Invite your friends to a group discussion. To start a group chat, click ‘Group chat’ from the ‘Options’ menu when chatting.
Learn more »

New emoticons
Go from [...]

Slashdotted… by a blogger?

Gone are the days when you got a polite phone call before your company website was to be featured by a major news outlet, giving you a chance to be ready for the crush.
Since the 90s, being slashdotted is now common vernacular among webmasters. Normally seen as a good thing (because of the publicity), it [...]

New Google Maps Mobile Knows Your Location

When I bought my Blackberry 8830, the last thing I bought it for was its on-board GPS. I didn’t even know it had one. Turns out, I wasn’t supposed to know about it since Verizon disables the GPS deep in the kernel of the device. Turns out that even Google was talking about how [...]

How @twitter Changes Work (OR, Can You Handle The Truth?)

@Akula (Brett Nordquist) asked the question last night, “How does your company change if the majority of people use Twitter?” quickly following that up with “Maybe the company doesn’t change. But I think it does.”
I already noted that the evidence of Twitter becoming a mainstream communications tool is abundant, but considering what happens to twitter [...]

Stay Tuned for Station Identification

Camping with the family, originally uploaded by robmerrill.
Light blogging weekend because I have had a very important meeting with my personal Board of Directors (see the photo).
I love getting back to basics.
Please Comment: What are YOU doing this weekend to reconnect with your life’s most-important things (whatever those are)?

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How to tell if you’re Moms favorite

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Worst Ads Ever

What you see below is a sample of the worst google ads I have ever seen.
I have noticed this a lot lately. STUPID, sensational ads are making their way into my search results, gmail, and wherever else I look. The worst part is, they must, somehow, notice something about my browsing habits [...]

If you see this

If you can see this, Then I fixed whatever happened to totally hose my blog.
If you don’t see it, then I am still smacking myself in the forehead.

… still looking for my stapler, btw.

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