Protecting our data in the cloud is of utmost importance. I’ve mentioned securing the cloud several times on this blog and was please to see this Boingboing post, Grendel: free/open source software for protecting your cloud data.

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Happy Birthday, Digital Advertising!

by relaxedguy on November 3, 2009

Back in the day I was involved in some of the early banner ads at Hotwired. This article made me feel nostalgic. Happy Birthday, Digital Advertising!

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Webinnovators Group # 23

by relaxedguy on September 17, 2009

It’s that time again, get ready for Webinnovators Group session #23. Webinnovators has grown from 20 people in a room when I first attended the second or third event to almost 1,000 at the last one. We begin with the doors officially opening at 6:30pm in the Cambridge Royal Sonesta Hotel. At 7pm in the [...]

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Is Twitter a Popular Marketing Tool?

by relaxedguy on April 9, 2009

Svetlana Gladkova talks about a survey of online tools used by businesses for marketing. So while you may think that social media tools are heavily employed by businesses for promotion, the survey has a surprise for you: in fact, only traditional internet tools are actually heavily used by marketing people so direct mail and web [...]

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Joshua Schachter on URL Shortener Services

by relaxedguy on April 3, 2009

Joshua schachter, founder of the Delicious social bookmarking service, weighs in on url shorteners. any phone that can run a web browser and thus follow links can also run a proper client, and doesn’t have to hew to the SMS character limit. Shorteners are relatively easy and lightweight to set up. Adding a simple interstitial [...]

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Domain names are Dead Due to URL Shortners

by relaxedguy on April 2, 2009

TechCrunch says if (url-shortening service) bit.ly Is Worth $8 Million, TinyURL Is Worth At Least $46 Million. I personally can’t stand short url’s and I bet domain name marketers are even more upset. Why pay a lot of money for a seemingly-great url when it’s going to get morphed and truncated into a mini-url owned [...]

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Is Twitter Going to Replace SMS?

March 19, 2009

Twitter is blowing up in a big way. Serious media coverage happening. Early adopters are going from majority to minority in a short period of time. I don’t like relying on 8-12 external services to make Twitter as comprehensive as I prefer it to be. And why aren’t more web properties accepting OpenID, Facebook Connect [...]

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Top Albums of 2008

January 7, 2009

Hype Machine Pitchfork 50 Best Albums of 2008 Pitchfork 100 Best Track of 2008

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Facebook Firefox Toolbar Not Working Anymore

January 7, 2009

I hardly ever visit Facebook directly, if someone does something like friend me or invite me to something, the Facebook toolbar lets me know about it. Ever since I upgraded to Firefox 3.0.5 for Mac, my Facebook toolbar doesn’t work. I’ve emailed a developer I know at Facebook and am hoping they can fix the [...]

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Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

January 6, 2009

Just in time for MacWorld, Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard , via The Onion.

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