What I Learned at IRCE

June 23, 2009

So, Gang, I spent most of last week at the Internet Retailer Conference working the SpinShark booth. Based on shows that we’ve been to this year, we weren’t really expecting too much. Previous e-commerce shows this year have been poorly attended and very low energy. However, when I walked into the convention center, the vendors [...]

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Does Bing Matter?

June 3, 2009

icrosoft launched Bing last week to a lot of fanfare. And the response that I have heard is one of pleasant surprise. And I have used Bing fairly extensively, and my  response is also one of pleasant surprise. It is a lot less crowded and flashy  (in that bad, buzzing neon sign sort of way) than [...]

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Search: The Next Generation

May 27, 2009

I did a post over at the SpinShark search blog about all of the interesting permutations that have come about in search with Google’s Universal Search results, and I have a couple of articles about search coming up in Internet Retailer in mid-June, so I don’t want to rehash those, but I do want to talk about [...]

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Small Business Marketing & Opportunity

April 29, 2009

his morning, after I dropped the kids off at school, I went for a run. Late April has been kind in Central New York, so the morning is soft and bright. I took a detour from my usual grind it out, get it done run and wandered out into the country. I saw an intimidating [...]

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iPhone Jailbreaking Illegal?

February 13, 2009

From our friends over at TUAW, the latest reports are that Apple considers jailbreaking a violation of their copyright. Now listen, I am a big Apple fan. I only use Windows computers under duress, and I simply love my iPhone (and my iPod, and my wife’s MacBook, and the 9 other Apple computers that I have [...]

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Why are the "cross-platform" mobile developers dying?

February 10, 2009

Last week, a startup that I worked for moved on to the great start up graveyard. They had a “write once, run anywhere platform”. It was a terrific idea with great technology. Another, larger company I worked for is now 20% of its former size. They create rich multi-media applications that scale massively. They are [...]

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Palm Pre: Too Little Too Late

January 11, 2009

I was ALWAYS a huge Palm fan. I had a Palm III, IIIx, V, VII, Treo 600 & Treo 650. They completely rocked, all of them. Then Palm ran into trouble, couldn’t get their OS working and with $100m from Elevation Partners, they snagged Jon Rubenstein and then went into hiding. Until yesterday…when the unleashed [...]

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Palm Pre: Too Little Too Late?

January 9, 2009

I was ALWAYS a huge Palm fan. I had a Palm III, IIIx, V, VII, Treo 600 & Treo 650. They completely rocked, all of them. Then Palm ran into trouble, couldn’t get their OS working and with $100m from Elevation Partners, they snagged Jon Rubenstein and then went into hiding. Until yesterday…when the unleashed [...]

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The Rise of Social Media, Mobile Style

December 10, 2008

I just recently wrote about how Twitter has become my default source of conversation. My company is virtual, meaning that we are always mobile. I have a home office, or sometimes I work at the local cafe (where my wife won the local Apple Pie Bake-Off!), but I never use a desktop computer, haven’t been [...]

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The Rise of Social Media, Mobile Style

December 10, 2008

I just recently wrote about how Twitter has become my default source of conversation. My company is virtual, meaning that we are always mobile. I have a home office, or sometimes I work at the local cafe (where my wife won the local Apple Pie Bake-Off!), but I never use a desktop computer, haven’t been reliant [...]

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