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How Facebook Could Make Pages Better for Administrators

February 3, 2010

Hey Mark, How’s it going? I promised you another note when I wrote earlier about events, so here it is. I wanted to share some ideas with you about Facebook pages. I know this has been a work in progress and I hope you’ll consider some of these suggestions. Let administrators post as themselves – [...]

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Notifications: Nexus One 1, iPhone 3G 0

January 30, 2010

The Nexus One handles notifications beautifully: a status bar at the top of the screen shows icons related to activity, and a simple swipe of the fingers shows received emails, texts or tweets, missed calls, and other status items. You can click directly on any of the items to be pulled into that application, or [...]

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Google Maps Navigation for the Nexus One

January 25, 2010

One of the main features that interested me in the Nexus One was turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation. Almost all the features in the Nexus One have some level of voice support, and the navigation is no different. You can say things like “navigate to wagon wheel skate center” and it will guide you there. Obviously, it [...]

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Every Race is Different

January 11, 2010

I’m a marathoner: in 2009, I completed 7 marathons, ranging in finishing time from 3:29:36 to 6:42:15. Why the big discrepancy? Every race is different. There are external factors: course and weather, as well as internal factors: training, nutrition, mindset. And all can have an huge impact on the end result. When you look at [...]

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Throwing it Against the Wall

January 1, 2010

I just finished reading a blog post entitled “

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Go Ahead and Echo

December 8, 2009

Social media changed the marketing and journalism game because it enabled anyone to be a publisher. Some would say that we should each contribute: that we have our own valuable opinions to share. Others maintain that at some point we’re just all adding noise and it becomes more difficult to find worthwhile content. Given my [...]

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Chicks Digg IT

August 13, 2008

As I mentioned, I’d been speaking with some of my colleagues at Resource Interactive about a pitch for SxSW. Lara Lebeiko had the idea of speaking about women in the IT field. I have my notes from one of our phone conversations, where she said she did not want it to be a feminazi panel [...]

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