Playing With Joy

I have a phrase I say to some of the buddies I play football with when they get a wee-bit too intense. You can tell they’re too intense because of the scowl on their face. “Play with joy,” I tell them. I say this when it looks like someone needs to take it down a thousand [...]

Microsoft Live Labs’ Pivot Visualization Tool

ReadWriteWeb reports that Microsoft’s Live Labs has launched Pivot, “a fun, powerful discovery tool, built on Seadragon and powered by Silverlight, that runs in Vista or Windows 7 with IE8. It looks great and allows for truly intuitive exploration of information.” Here’s a demonstration:

Email: The Black Hole

I have a love/hate relationship with email. I love it because it’s so easy to use but I hate it because all the insight that comes in and the wisdom I send out evaporates the next day when my attention is focused on that day’s email. I know I can search my email but that’s not [...]

Yahoo Search Pad Launches

Yahoo has rolled Search Pad out of beta, a service that makes it easy for you to take notes about sites during your online research. It’s a great idea for those of us who work online. Here’s a video demo of Search Pad:

Fortune 100 CEOs Are Bravely Leading Their Companies Into The Past

Dan Haugen’s excellent piece at MinnPost about Best Buy’s new social media savvy CEO Brian Dunn, points out just what an anomaly Dunn is, based on a report by the UberCEO blog. In the last section of his article, Haugen warns that “By avoiding them, these leaders could be putting their own image and their company’s [...]

HTC Touch Pro2 Walkthrough

A review of the HTC Touch Pro2 from PocketNowVideo. HTC made the hardware for Google’s G1 while the software for this phone is Windows Mobile. This is a serious business phone. HTC Touch Pro2 Hardware HTC Touch Pro2 Software

The One Big Thing: Google Wave

Just when it looked like the big news for the week was going to be Microsoft’s announcement of their latest attempt to grab search market share with Bing, Google comes in and rains all over their parade. So, then, The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is Google Wave. Earlier this [...]

Obama’s Web Site – A Grassroots Online Application

As I said in the previous post in this series, the Obama campaign understood the power of social networks so thoroughly that they made social networking technology the foundation of their campaign Web site. The primary purposes of the Obama campaign site were to 1) market the candidate, 2) raise funds, 3) connect supporters, 4) organize [...]

Meta Me: My Lifestream Through Google Analytics

Now that Google is increasingly owning everything online, they ought to start thinking about integrating their Google Analytics service into everything else they own not called AdWords. In addition to analytics, the Google accounts and services I use include Webmaster Tools, Local Business Center, iGoogle, Alerts, Gmail, Talk, Docs, Notebook, Calendar, Maps, Maps for Mobile, Earth, [...]

Replacing Outlook For A Failsafe Email Backup

Do as I say, not as I do. Despite consistent warnings to friends, family, and clients alike, I failed to follow my own advice to regularly back up your data and paid the price when my hard drive failed recently. Recovering from a hard drive failure and data loss is a lengthy and painful process, [...]

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