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Getting a handle on influence and online content creation

March 17, 2010
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As you may be aware, espe­cially if you’ve been blas­ted by my twit­ter stream recently, I’m help­ing some friends out with the Empire Avenue beta.
A few things about Empire Avenue:

Empire Avenue is about your online Value and your online Influ­ence
Empire Avenue’s The People’s Mar­ket is a fantasy stock mar­ket where […]

Tagged as: Blogging, Blogging, Communications, Empire Avenue, Lifestyle Technology, People's Market, Social Media, Stock Market, Technology

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Spring has sprung, the grass is riz. I wonder where that data is?

March 16, 2010

In Edmon­ton the last week or so has been unseason­ably warm. A friend of mine today declared on Twit­ter that he went to work pants-less (one assumes he wore shorts). I’m start­ing to wait­ing for the rest of the snow to leave the back yard, and my dogs are get­ting rest­less. Which means that when […]

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Where’s Waldo?

March 15, 2010

This week I star­ted using Gowalla — a check-in application/game for mobile devices sim­ilar to Foursquare, which means noth­ing if you’ve not used FourSquare either…so let me explain. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

Tagged as: Entertainment, Games, GPS, Location, News, Social Media

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This is the week that was

March 14, 2010

Looks like some iPad com­pet­it­ors are start­ing to get some atten­tion, so we’ll give them some too… …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

Tagged as: News

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Spring’s on its way. Backup now — before you’re too busy.

March 12, 2010
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I’ve writ­ten a lot about back­ing up your data over the years. But even though backups are import­ant, some­how they’re always 2nd or 3rd on the pri­or­ity list. ‘Some­thing to do when I get time’. And as Spring approaches, time is one thing that there’s going to be less of as pri­or­it­ies shift from inside […]

Tagged as: 13th, Backup, Backups, ClickFree, contest, Data, hardware, Murphy, process, safety, software, Spring, Time, Transformer

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Finally. If it’s Friday then it’s time for a video.

March 12, 2010
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Earlier this week OK Go par­ted ways with their record label in order to have more cre­at­ive and pub­lish­ing con­trol over their music videos. Short ver­sion — EMI was not let­ting their videos be pub­lished through You­Tube. Longer ver­sion and over­view at Fast­Com­pany.
Since that rela­tion­ship has ended, the fol­low­ing link to the You­Tube video of […]

Tagged as: DRM, Entertainment, Friday, Marketing, Music, OK Go, publishing, Video, YouTube

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