Calendar: Blogging for Business Conference Monday

The Blogging for Business conference will be next Monday. Click below to see the Rocky Mountain Voices vidcast with Matt Reinbold and Brad Baldwin

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Calendar: Utah Tech Spotlight — DOBA

Take a breather Thursday and go check out Doba, courtesy of the jockeys over at TwelveHorses. P.S. Don’t forget that Doba is hosting Guy Kawasaki in a few weeks:
“Not only has Jeremy been very successful in building his company here in Utah (currently ranked the 23rd fastest growing privately held business in the Nation), [...]

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Event: Utah Open Source Conference Underway in Provo

The Utah Open Source Conference kicked off Thursday evening with a dinner/reception followed by the Utah Open Source Awards and keynote addresses by Matt Asay and Bruce Perens.
Of course, since the conference is happening at Novell’s Open Source Technology Center, there’s an interesting spike in the blogs about Novell and Microsoft’s recent partnership and how [...]

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hCard Embedded in New Email Signature

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I updated my work email signature and felt a little saucy and embedded my hCard information right into the HTML. (Yes, the Unix users out there who only read plain-text emails won’t see it).
hCard is a microformat, a way to encode certain pieces of human-readable information with machine-readable meta-data to allow computers and [...]

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LinkedIN: ‘I’m Gonna Have to Block You’

Asking people to join your network may be hazardous to your (network’s) health.
Recently, LinkedIn, the granddaddy of all business social networkins sites, added some good features, trying to help people get and keep connected.  I am strongly in favor of LinkedIn, and I am glad they made some changes to keep up with the pack… [...]

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Comcast Is Starting The Tiered Internet.. Whether We Like It or Not

Of course, I am not the only person who feels that Comcast Sucks, but I am fired up about them starting up the Tiered Internet whether we like it or not (DIGG article here).

There are a lot of arguments from the MBAs about why companies like Comcast need to charge different amounts for people who [...]

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Network With Meaning

Dave Slusher of Evil Genius Chronicles has had enough with the newest, shiniest social networks clamoring for his attention:
People invite me to services all the time. They want to connect to me on LinkedIn, Twitter, FaceBook. I appreciate that anyone cares and I get a little warmth from the sentiment. I’m not joining anything that [...]

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How to get hired… in Second Life

Cory Edo of Electric Sheep company tells us how an artist should go about getting hired (if they wish) full-time in Second Life, the raging virtual world becoming quickly part of our own world.
“You’re ready to make the jump. You want to work in SL full time doing what you love - building, texturing, scripting, [...]

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LinkedIn Listening?

Look, I am not saying I started this, but according to what Mashable’s saying, the marketplace is moving fast enough away from LinkedIn and closed-wall applications in-general, that it appears they may be actually implementing some of the stuff I complained about 18 months ago.
(Via Mashable): LinkedIn is feeling the heat from Facebook’s platform strategy: [...]

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Dear Best Buy: Past Performance != Future Performance

I walked into the Salt Lake City Best Buy today at 5000-ish South State Street in SLC, hopeful. I am looking for the needed stuff to hook up my iPod to my VW Passat’s factory stereo. I am expecting to spend about $500 on these adapters and wires and stuff, when I can [...]

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