Crowdsourcing for Sidewalk.com
Wednesday July 01st 2009, 12:21 pm
Filed under: Personal Technology, Web 2.0, Web Design, Internet

Citysearch, a division of IAC, wants to build out Sidewalk.com as a local guide site, and instead of launching their own coding project is testing the crowdsourcing waters. Entrants get a shot at a $10K prize and (possibly) additional funding to realize the project. Here’s the outline of ...

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Twitter = Guayabera Shirt?
Monday November 24th 2008, 1:13 pm
Filed under: Community Building, Personal Technology, Web 2.0, Social Networking

A Motley Fool post about Twitter reminded me, of all things, of an ancient WSJ article about the popularity of guayabera shirts. I dimly recall that the article spent a long time discussing the comfort and business acceptability of the guayabera, but then closed with a punchline that went ...

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Steampunk Chic
Thursday November 01st 2007, 7:40 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology, Random Musings

Tired of high tech designs that look hopelessly dated in just a few years? Longing for a more Victorian sensibility? You may need to get up to speed with steampunk, a design movement whose participants hack new tech devices (and more) into steam-era exteriors. The photo is ...

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Verizon XV6800 - They Couldn’t Hear Me, or Anyone Else
Friday October 26th 2007, 9:25 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

Verizon finally managed to push me into the arms of the competition. I was a fairly happy voice subscriber. I tested an XV6700 way back in March, and liked it. I decided to hold off, though, since the release of the XV6800 (pictured months earlier in various ...

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Google 411: Impressive Debut
Friday October 12th 2007, 12:20 am
Filed under: Search Engine Marketing, Search Technology, Personal Technology, Internet

Today, I was driving in San Francisco with a couple of other SEO-types and we spotted a prominent billboard for Google’s 411 service. The sign wasn’t too specific, but it conveyed that it was a free directory information service of some type. So, being intrepid explorers, we gave ...

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AT&T Tilt: Why AT&T Isn’t Apple
Friday October 05th 2007, 8:59 pm
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

Apple’s not perfect - I just chronicled a couple of their miscues in Apple iPhone: Turning Off Fans. Despite that, Apple looks like a PR and branding genius compared to AT&T. Compare the introduction of Apple’s iPhone to the AT&T Tilt. Apple announced a launch date with ...

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Apple iPhone - Turning Off Fans
Tuesday October 02nd 2007, 7:45 am
Filed under: Marketing & PR, Personal Technology

No company in modern corporate history has developed a more cultlike, devoted customer base than Apple. I’ve often cited them as an example of what other firms strive for, or should strive for, in bonding with their customers. Now, Apple seems intent on turning the iPhone, which began ...

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Racing Snails: AT&T Tilt vs. Verizon XV6800
Monday September 24th 2007, 7:44 am
Filed under: Personal Technology

“Release no smartphone before its time” seems to be the slogan of both AT&T and Verizon. My romance with HTC slide-style smartphones began all the way back in March of this year, when I tested the Verizon XV6700. I liked it a lot, but ultimately returned it after ...

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AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser) vs. Verizon XV6800
Monday August 27th 2007, 10:27 am
Filed under: Personal Technology

We’ve been following Verizon’s continued delays in introducing their XV6800 smart phone, and berated them for missing the opportunity to leverage iPhone enthusiasm and outright hype into their own Windows Mobile 6 offering (see XV6800: Verizon Misses Opportunity.). Sure, the iPhone would have been a big seller either way, ...

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Verizon XV6800 - August Release
Friday August 03rd 2007, 11:28 am
Filed under: Personal Technology

We’ve seen a lot of interest and commentary here about the long-delayed release of the Verizon XV6800, and now it appears that a release this month is likely. A leaked copy of the Verizon Product Roadmap was linked from a post at Brighthand by Ed Handley, Verizon Getting New ...

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