Archive | January, 2009

On My Radar 012909

January 29, 2009

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On the radar links for 01/29/09 – an ongoing look at what I am looking at. Some things deserve to be posted but do not make it into their own stand alone post. This gives me the ability to share links with some commentary. NYCGO – new website for everything NYC Tweet this post – [...]

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Bandwidth Throttling? Find out with Measurement Lab

January 28, 2009

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Google today announced a new product, called Measurement Lab, to help you determine if your ISP is throttling bandwidth and perhaps interfering with your downloads. The product is described as follows: Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open, distributed server platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. The goal of M-Lab is to advance network [...]

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My wishlist for the future of the Blackberry

January 28, 2009

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I am thinking about upgrading my Blackberry in a few weeks and have been bouncing around some ideas for what I want\need in a mobile phone device. image from a great review of the Blackberry 8900 I recently mentioned that I wanted my phone to be a wallet, keys, and a universal ID system. While [...]

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Always Logged In

January 26, 2009

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As I have been talking about recently the best social networks are the ones that arise to challenges when you need them to and are nowhere to be found when you do not need them as is the emerging case with Gmail as a social network. I have been thinking about this further with the [...]

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Data Longevity

January 25, 2009

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I have been thinking about the concept of data longevity and data rot lately after my sister asked me a very poignant question about her blog; “will my blog be around in 20 years?”. I never really doubted that her blog would be around in 20 years but it got me thinking. I certainly put [...]

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Blackberry One

January 24, 2009

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Image by abbyladybug via Flickr With all the BlackBerry hype surrounding Obama’s usage of a Blackberry, you would think that RIM would be doing everything and anything possible to get a secure custom device into his hands for the next four years. It now appears that Obama will get to hang on to the Blackberry [...]

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Prioritizing and Organizing Feeds in Google Reader

January 11, 2009

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I have been using Google Reader for quite some time and reading feeds for what seems like forever. My habits and ability to organize and plow through my feeds has changed dramatically over the years and I wanted to share my own use case and experience here. I originally heard about the idea to organize [...]

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Links Roundup 01/06/09

January 6, 2009

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I have not done a links roundup in awhile but it helps me flush out links that I want to share. Each deserves a read and perhaps a short explanation – enjoy! Wells Fargo has a blog and is clearly thinking about their outbound marketing. Discovered via Dave Armano Think your idea sucks? Do it [...]

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