From the Globe and Mail today on wireless Internet access nearly everywhere: By air, sea or rail, travellers can stay connected Until recently, going on-line on the road meant Internet access from hotels and perhaps Internet cafés. Getting a connection while actually moving was more difficult and usually slow, using cellular modems and the basic…
This idea really appeals to me. Carry something like this on your USB key all the time. Take notes, jot ideas. Visit a colleague, friend, etc and share information. Now the only drawback I've found thus far is that while the Roller demo bundle only needs like 24 megs (which fits on my 32 meg…
Ah brainstorming. Like Amy says in her Artistic Aside post, brainstorming is often challenging and uncomfortable. I think the irony is for me that great ideas very often come from brainstorming sessions, but often the sessions are tortuous or worse, the great ideas are lost in the sea of corporate bureaucracy. Amy has two great…
Okay what to say about this post? Is is the serendipity of Dave finding one of those two-degrees of separation links to another blog that was talking about something he's just been thinking? Or is it the last two points in the post: How to get people to keep websites updates and how can you…
From Grokdotcom.com…a good, interesting post on blogging. Just another read to add to your knowledge base. A Day in the Life of a Persuasion Architect If I'm not mistaken, the word started life as a noun. A blog – shortened from “weblog” – in its original incarnation was an online diary charting the personal meanderings…
Amy is definitely using GMail more than I am right now! But with Firefox's GMail extension GMail Notifier, that's changing. I have already started to use it as my newsletter e-mail and I'm starting (after Amy's suggestion) moving some of my non-critical newsletters to GMail. I still like getting the CBC and Globe and Mail…
We knew this had to happen sooner or later. But if we're all honest with ourselves we have to thank the porn industry for a lot of what makes the net great. Things like real-time credit card authorisations, streaming video, etc all come from the porn industry trying to serve it's large customer base. There…
Let's be clear here to start off with, this isn't an unbiased interview at all. The question “What competitive products did you consider?” wasn't even answered. That out of the way the article does bring up excellent point for why hosted services like Intranets.com are right to many companies. I think the most important is…
It would seem that although the DNC has just wrapped up and Microsoft appears to be releasing patches every week. Blogging, especially business blogging, is on the media radar. This is another typical release/article from Reuters on the subject. This article, though posted to today, seems to be a rehash of similar articles that have…
This is a must-read article for anyone with a website. Why? Because Robin sets out seven excellent steps you need to take to figure out what success will mean to your website and how to think about measuring it. I've said this in a number of posts, but web metrics and analytics are topics near…
