Category: Technology

  • How You Fight Tells Me Who You Are

    How You Fight Tells Me Who You Are A lot of your personality is revealed when you take up arms against someone else, whether in self defense or aggression. How you fight, your particular fighting style, reveals your traits – strengths, weaknesses, identity. After all, in a fight, you’re tapping into your most primal traits.…

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  • World of Warcraft is the new MBA

    From www.ChristopherSPenn.com One of the great takeaway quotes from Chris Brogan at the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing Mixer was that World of Warcraft is the new golf course. There are anywhere between 10-15 million people in World of Warcraft, including me, and there are millions of people logged on all the time. If you’ve never played,…

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  • I'm ditching my business card pile

    I’ve been to a lot of conferences. I’ve gotten a lot of people’s business cards. I’ve been less than perfect about managing them all. Today I’ve hooked up with a company that is going to handle it from now on. Shoeboxed handles bulk business card scanning. Mail them the pile after a conference, get back…

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  • Boarding a plane as an economics problem

    The airline industry’s boarding and deplaning process is, generally speaking, about as organized as an overweight cattle stampede. If you’ve been on a plane recently, as I’ve been, you know the pain and frustration of watching fellow passengers who seem to pack a couple of freight containers in their carry on, then are surprised when…

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  • Blogola review: Simplifi from Griffin

    Dave Delaney sent me a Simplifi from Griffin Technology to review. OK, Dave, here’s the review. First, this thing is small and cute. Nice design, feels solid. It’s a combo iPod dock and 2 port USB hub and flash card reader. That’s it in a nutshell, right? Not quite. Because this thing purports to be…

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  • Back up your data today – even in the cloud

    The cloud is wonderful. Google Apps, Twitter, Gmail, etc. It’s a great way of making sure everything you have is available wherever you are. That said, could there ever come a day when Google’s apps aren’t available to you? It’s possible. If you have stored anything of value in the cloud, make sure you have…

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  • Fantastic movie trailer

    “It has been said, that in the end of all things, we would find a new beginning.” “But as the shadow once again crawls across our world, and the stench of terror drifts upon a bitter wind, the people prayed for strength and guidance-” “They should pray for the mercy of a swift death; For…

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  • How World of Warcraft can make you a better marketer

    I’ve been playing World of Warcraft (WoW) for fun the past couple of weeks or so. It was a fun game in the beginning, but now it’s a useful game, at least in the sense of honing two vitally important skills, arbitrage and information asymmetry. (two skills, I might add, come in handy in today’s…

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  • Social Media Dashboard – Bloomberg for Social Media

    Social Media Dashboard – Bloomberg for Social Media This morning started off thinking about Bloomberg’s wonderful but hideously expensive terminal, and how it gives you insight and also a dashboard to instantly know what’s going on in the markets. I thought, wouldn’t it be interesting to have a Bloomberg for social media? Sure enough, a…

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  • SEO more important than ever with Google Chrome

    Google’s announcement of Chrome, their new open-source browser, was greeted with a relatively lukewarm reception online today. Here’s the part that a lot of folks missed, from the Chrome comic book. (yes, a comic book) Get it? If your SEO efforts aren’t up to par, Google’s ignoring you in the testing of their browser, too.…

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