Technology and Marketing Advice from New Media Marketing Experts
The other night I had my shopping cart full on Apple.com with a brand new MacBook Pro with retina display. My finger literally hovered over the purchase button. My current MacBook Pro is still a great machine but it’s really starting to feel slow compared to all the new Macs coming out. At the time, I was watching a television show describing the MacBook Pro and I was on my iPad. As I start to think about my online buying habits, that seems to be the norm… I browse and … Continue reading
My friends know I’m a book snob. I love hardcover books. There’s nothing like the crack of a virgin spine and the scent of a crisp page with fresh ink on it. A new book feels always feels like a present to me… and it’s mine, all mine! I’m working on my hardcover snobbishness, though! I can’t help but feel guilty at all the books that are piling up around my apartment that deserve to be read by others who aren’t so willing to cough up the hardcover price. I’ll … Continue reading
A client asked me on the phone today, “What does blog stand for?”. I let him know that it was short for web log, and evolved into the abridged blog. A few minutes after the call, I received a note from my good friend, Dr. Thomas Ho, who asked, “What’s YOUR opinion of this?” and he left me a link to Paul Boutin’s Wired Essay, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004. I read the essay and was not only unimpressed, I was disappointed in Wired for even accepting … Continue reading
One of the challenges with having an out-sourced or offshore development team is simply trying to track and prioritize your work. I work with no less than three outsourced resources, one of them offshore. It seems when you split the workday between time zones, you naturally introduce a delay to everything you do. I got some press when I canceled Basecamp a year ago. The irony is that, when I signed on with my new job, I was back working in Basecamp again. I’m not knocking Basecamp, it’s a worthy … Continue reading
