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I am participating in the “Institute of Management Consultants” New England Chapter program tonight, entitled “Help prospects find you (and your clients) using Web 2.0.” For those who might be interested, here are the notes I prepared for my part of the show. “RSS: What’s In it For You”
I’ve been a member of Costco for years. Yeah, you always buy more stuff there than you intended, but it’s so much fun! I uncovered today that Costco also has great discounts for travel, rental cars in particular. If you are not part of a big corporate program, call Costco Travel, ask for your rental car company, and you get connected to their ‘Costco Desk’ (is it a real desk?). Anyway, the point is I got a real nice discount over what the default Hertz web siteprice or Kayak deal was. Just a LifeHack for you.
If you are a Mac user, you might find a hint or three here to help your computer’s performance. Check out “The Efficient Mac User”
These are really funny and clever: Transparent Screens
Daylife is a new news oriented web site that came onto the scene a little while back to a lot of fanfare. I’ve used it on and off and it’s ok. It’s certainly a lot prettier to look at than things like Google News. Daylife’s emphasis on design and the use of photography both are quite striking and make the site worthwhile. Today they are introducing another wonderful bit, via Daylife Labs (does everyone have to have a ‘labs’ now?) It’s called Daylife Universe. What is it? I can’t quite explain it. It’s a super mega visualization of all the news that is happening or is ...
Read more →On Mac, I’ve been using only FireFox for a while now. But lately I’ve seen some things that have made me nervous. More than once I’ve seen FireFox peg the CPU for no apparent reason. Recently I had bad experiences with the latest latest release of the del.icio.us add-in. So I decided to scan for the other browsers out there to see if I was missing out. I installed Camino, Safari and OmniWeb and tried to use each one for real work. Well they are pretty and may be fast, I don’t know, but, guess what, I am back with FireFox. Three reasons stopped me dead in the water before I got hooked on any of the alternatives: The really handy Performancing blogging add-in seems to only be available with FireFox None of the others have the very nice incremental search (type ctrl-F) that FireFox has And in the end, I really didn’t see any fundamental differences or advantages over FireFox. So I am back. Dear readers: have you seen FireFox pegging the CPU from time to time? Any fixes or explanations?
I guess that many of you who read this blog are eRoom, Documentum and EMC alums so you’d be interested in reading what John Newton, co-founder of Documentum has to say about the departure of Dave DeWalt from EMC: “[snip…] Being a co-founder of Documentum prior to starting Alfresco, it is only natural that people are asking me what I think of Dave DeWalt’s departure from EMC to become CEO at Security Software firm McAfee [snip…]” from Content Log. As a humerous aside, I’ve heard from more than o...
Read more →A handy list: “Open Source Apps on Mac from Linux and Open Source”
Isaac Asimov was a visonary don’t you think? “South Korea’s obsession with technology has led it to consider what may be the first government-backed ethical code for robots.” (from The Telegraph)
I am a die-hard Tivo user. Yesterday I stumbled across mention that TivoTogo now worked on Macs, so the promise of watching Tivo’d content on my iPod led me to waste a couple of hours trying to get it to work. I am not sure yet, but it looks like TivoTogo is disabled on Tivo Series 3. It’s kind of hard to find anything definitive about this, but in the article “Who Killed TivoTogo” I read: “It’s the latest digital media murder mystery: TiVo Series2’s TiVoToGo1 enabled limited portability of recorded content to PCs and other devices, but the TiVo Series3 HD did not include this feature when recently released.2 In other words, if you want to upgrade to HD, you have to downgrade your TiVo’s features.” (from EFF.ORG)
Dave Winer says it well (as usual): “Here’s another reason why WordPress is so popular — they belong to Ye Old Schoole of Shitty Software …snip]” (Read “WordPress is shitty software”)
Really interesting article which asks whether a recent incident on an Americann Airlines flight in fact was a terrorist dry run: “[…snip] This is not meant to scare, but it probably will. Consider yourself informed and warned that the threat is real. This crew reported that they were not prepared that something of this nature could be happening to them. […snip]” (from “American Airlines Flight 62: A terrorist probe?”)
I was glad to see that the FireFox add-in for del.icio.us was revised to combine the features of the ‘old one’ with the features of the ‘new one’. That’s good. Unfortunately it looks to me like the new and improved plug-in is still a bit buggy, sending FireFox into a tailspin – window activation weirdnesses, apparent loops hogging the CPU. I look forward to the next rev, because the concept is right on.
This looks kind of neat – check out this post from Lifehacker: Web site Just One Club Card lets you condense up to 8 different discount club cards onto one front-and-back card, meaning your back-breaking wallet is about to go on a big diet. Just enter the barcode numbers and choose the store for each card you want to get rid of and Just One Club Card will convert them to a printable, one-card format. Fold, laminate, and enjoy. (from: Slim down your wallet with Just One Club Card)
One more reason to Love Google! Check out this post from Lifehacker: ** "Google Maps has just rolled out an exciting new traffic feature, that provides traffic data for major interstates and freeways." (from**: Google Maps traffic information
Check out this post from John Edwards ’08 Blog: News: ** "Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting "Bush ’08" tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ [snip..] … I witnessed this event, taking names and photos, including the owners of the pictures." (from**: John Edwards Second Life HQ vandalized.)
Yeah a weird thought. So when I came across an analysis called The Dutch Defend Their World Empire, I was fascinated, in a sick sort of way. “[snip…]The Dutch problem can best be described with the words, “not enough”. Not enough forces to successfully repel an invasion of Aruba, Curacao, and Bonaire; not enough naval power to carry out operations to retake the islands; their fighters do not have enough range; and not enough logistical support to support an operation.[snip…] (from The Dutch Defend Their Empire) Also, from the comments: “[snip…]The United S...
Read more →Check out this post from Lifehacker: “Want to play with RSS feeds? Try xFruits, where, according to tech enthusiast Steve Rubel, you can “teach your feeds all kinds of new tricks.” He’s not kidding around, either: you can create a PDF file from an RSS feed, send an OPML to your mobile, aggregate, and lots more. I played with it a little bit and was suitably impressed by all the options; it looks like they’re even adding the option to create RSS feeds for your desktop files soon. â_” Wendy BoswellxFruits ...
Read more →If you blog, you might appreciate: loose wire blog: Bald-headed Britney and the Lost Art of Linking
If you are a blogger then you probably keep an eye out on the ‘circulation’ of your blog. It’s a black art full of subjetivity and highly detailed technical tidbits that have to be understood and then interpretted before you really know what the data means. Still if you are interested, check out this post from FeedBurner Weblog (Burning Questions): ...
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