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Month: March 2010

  • Getting a handle on influence and online content creation

    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. I’ve writ­ten before about Social Media and the Power of Influ­ence, but today I’m going to talk about a few things I’ve learned over the last few weeks. A few things…

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

    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…

  • Where’s Waldo?

    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.

  • This is the week that was

    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.

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

    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…

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

    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…

  • How to keep your travel communications costs down, easily.

    Wheth­er you’re on vaca­tion or trav­el­ling for work, tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions costs are a pain, and can really impact your the cost of your travel. Recently I’ve star­ted using two tools that let me call home or the office, talk as long as I want, and not break the bank. …more This post is an excerpt from…

  • “I’m an iPad. And I’m a Courier.”

    Ah yes, the Apple vs Microsoft rivalry is heat­ing up again after this week­end’s ‘leak’ (stra­tegic release?) to Engad­get of all sorts of inter­est­ing Cour­i­er tid­bits. But what was­n’t said? Are they really aim­ing at the same audi­ence? Why did Microsoft name it after a font? …more This post is an excerpt from one of…

  • The view out my window

    Daily I work in a cube, except for today. As you can see, I’m in my ‘away’ office, yet still connected. And yes, I am work­ing. Through the won­ders of tech­no­logy, I’m crank­ing out the copy, send­ing the email, edit­ing the text and photos. This is Life­style Tech­no­logy at work. Wifi enables me to be…

  • This is the week that was

    Wow, what a week for a lot of inter­est­ing news. Microsoft Cour­i­er device makes anoth­er appear­ance — Apple’s iPad gets a date, IE6 gets a funer­al… …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

  • Yoga mat or Laptop of the future?

    A friend showed me this video today and the first thought that popped to mind was Yoga Mat. Then I watched it and was suit­ably impressed. WANT!

  • ToDo and Do and Do

    Recently I dis­covered a nifty little iPhone / iPod app that simply keeps ToDo lists. And when you get busy, there’s noth­ing more reas­sur­ing than a good, func­tion­al ToDo list. …more This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.