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Entries from November 2007

The 50 Dollar Blog Challenge Response

November 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

What would you do if you had $50 dollars to spend on your blog???
A Blog About Nothing has posed this question and challenge to all! So I would recommend getting in on this - $50 dollars cold hard cash (or check).. maybe in all ones… at least it’s not quarters..

So I’ll bite. [...]

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Tags: contests

Kindle: Good, Bad, and Ugly

November 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Amazon has released a good conceptual product! The Kindle is an e-book reader, book downloader, and blog reader with integrated wireless EVDO/CDMA.
Amazon dubs the Kindle the “Wireless Reading Device”.
Reviews on this puppy are mixed. Robert Scoble of the wonderful scobleizer.com blog calls this device crap about 20 times, so it must be a [...]

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Tags: review

Fear Driven Web Commerce

November 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

FDWC (Fear Driven Web Commerce)

It seems every few months or so sites like www.whydiggisblocked.com come about spewing FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt). I think this is a marketing ploy to drive more traffic to their sites - these things get a lot of visibility on Digg and Reddit. Before this iteration there was [...]

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Tags: blogging · life · technology · web20

Happy Turkey Day: tech top five

November 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

So, today is the day that we should all be thankful for the various things in our lives: our family, our friends, our loved ones, our pets, etc etc. For all those things I am very thankful. But I think I am going to do something a bit different…

The top 5 technologies I [...]

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Tags: podcasts · technology · thanksgiving

The Benefits of GMail IMAP

November 4th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Google has rolled out a new service for their GMail e-mail service: IMAP. To enable IMAP you have to login to https://mail.google.com and enabled it via Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP. I’m guessing by this point just about everyone should have it, since I have it and I’m usually one of [...]

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Tags: IMAP · google · technology