The music industry has suffered one of the biggest disruptions caused by the internet. To be fair, they were among the first and hardest hit businesses whose revenues and revenue model were undercut by the profound and historical human desire to share the things they love. In this case, music. So I like pointing out [...]
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While watching the streaming video of the TechCrunch50 conference yesterday, I just caught the last couple minutes of the demo for Yammer. Basically, as most people have pointed out in the TechCrunch comments, Yammer is Twitter for companies. But what really caught my eye was the way they use “hash tags” to allow you to [...]
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Recently, after creating the “Badges” page for the PodCamp Hawaii site, we were contacted by several other Podcamp Organizers around the world. They wanted to know how we created the page and how to create the source code. It’s easy enough if you’re a programmer or web developer. But it can be confusing and difficult [...]
GetSatisfaction.com was launched in September, 2007, and is really gaining traction these days, as Twitter is one of its most active clients. What is it? It’s a new way that customers and companies can use public forums to solve problems. Companies can pro-actively use the site as their main location to address customer service issues, [...]
Let me start by saying, I’m dropping in on a conversation taking place at Techcrunch, Twitter and on the Joyent blog regarding the continue server outages at Twitter. I use Twitter but have been too busy this past week to even notice their recent round of outages. I found out today they had been hosting [...]
UPDATE: There have been other postings that say making a larger icon, 158×158 for example will produce higher quality results. We haven’t found that to be true. BUT, we have standardized on 60×60 for our Webclips icons and until Apple actually produces its own icons for its own website(s), we’ll be sticking with the 60×60 [...]
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We had a large winter storm here on Oʻahu last night. Power was off intermittently, but is now working. Our main internet connection, via Oceanic Cable, is down. That includes TV service too – so we won’t be watching any OC16 or HGTV today! My internet service via my cell phone, the AT&T Edge network, [...]
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