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Image via Wikipedia Google recently launched the Google Apps Marketplace which is a strong shot across their bow of office suite in the cloud offerings to small business, large businesses and schools. This is a big deal. With more businesses switching email providers to Google Apps off of managed or hosted Exchange servers costs go [...]

It is now cheaper than ever to start and run a web based project. I refer to these sites as too small to fail. They are small projects. They are learning projects. I call them sandbox projects. Most importantely, they are projects that help and inform everything you do and look at in the future. [...]

The future of advertising is buying ad time through distributed systems – adwords for TV. Below is an explanation and look into the future of advertising; This is just one example of how you can get ads on regular TV (via Google TV ads) but many more are either here or coming soon. The integrated [...]

My friend Jon Steinberg brought together a great group of people and had companies to present last week about technology, design, and user experience at the Dog Patch Labs NY location. There were some great presentations from the following 6 companies; Carbonmade, Secondmarket, Hard Candy Shell, Foursquare (mobile development), Stickybits, and Randomdorm (Goodcrush) Luckily Pete [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Last year Amazon bought Zappos and many feared the change. Tony Hsieh, the CEO of Zappos, sent around a note to employees explaining the transaction, what would change, and what would not. Since that time Zappos has been commended on its execution of customer service at a level that [...]

Google rolled out a completely new way to consume what is happening on the web, whether it be videos, pictures, text, basically anything all driven but a very new interface. If you have seen the redesign of thesixtyone.com you may see some similarities – at least I did from first usage. You can checkout this [...]

Behavior generated content is the by product, or data exhaust(as I like to call it), or using a product or service the way you normally would only now some data is collected in the background. As my friend Mike Singleton’s article points out this activity is being captured by services like Foursquare (USV is an [...]

I have never been to SXSW, but excited to head down this year for SXSW 2010. In preparation for my time in Austin I polled a few friends to get their advice and thought I would share it here. Thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts – and hope this is helpful to [...]

For the past few months I have been looking into how to best migrate off of Microsoft Exchange and onto Google Apps. The first step in that process was to determine the needs of everyone that would be using the new mail system and how they differed from doing things before. The second step was [...]

Over the weekend I watched a great 30 minute presentation about past, present, and future game dynamics and points systems the exist (and will exist) within our world. I took away a few key points from the video and wanted to share them here. The first point is about the digital convergence (or lack thereof). [...]