I have been browsing through Google’s various blogs to learn more about how might leverage their tools for our clients. Will has me sold on Google App Engine – a development solution that frees up people to simply innovate without requiring them raise capital. In my reading, and in my day to day perusal of [...]

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Here are some of my favorite examples of helping someone get started on the Web. If you like 25 cent words you can also file it under “usability”, “user interaction” or even “heuristics”. Tumblr – love their start up screen for the first time user Shopify – love their little floating explanation div’s that you [...]

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I really enjoyed this article and presentation. The analogies and responsibilities are one’s I find compelling. Major Kudos to Netflix if they can enact the ideals as practice, but I like the approach of explaining clearly what’s important to them. Perhaps this is why my interactions with their Web site and staff have been so [...]

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When I first made the transition from playing music professionally to the corporate world, it was with the specific goal of helping people work together through the Web. The skill sets I had from music were not unlike engineering – and I had a long history with computers dating from seventh grade, when I began [...]

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I really enjoyed this article and presentation. The analogies and responsibilities are one’s I find compelling. Major Kudos to Netflix if they can enact the ideals as practice, but I like the approach of explaining clearly what’s important to them. Perhaps this is why my interactions with their Web site and staff have been so [...]

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I have spent the last several weeks diving in full throttle to the sites touting themselves as “Social networks” yada yada yada … I have been curious as to a) their business value to me and b) their social value to me (i.e. how much fun are they). Note: spamming a social networking site with [...]

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Here is the first in a series of FAQ answers in response to questions I am getting frequently from clients and friends who do not eat/sleep/breath World Wide Web…. This week’s top question…How is Twitter any different from Facebook. (Note, i like and use both) 1. Twitter allows me to see updates from people I [...]

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Highrisehq is a decent todo manager for sales. Salesforce.com remains the best I have worked with in terms of automation and the ability to support templates for communications, collateral, managing a pipeline professionally, tracking leads and lead sources. BeyondBullets author (whose name escapes me at the moment) best coaching I have seen for presentations. If [...]

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This is NOT about how to monetize social networking. There are a bunch of articles and “experts” on that topic coming out of the woodwork. This is just a post on some observations and some of the fun coming out of my great Twitter experiment. With Facebook, Twitter, and the other social network utilities, I [...]

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Want to save money – significant money just through javascript? Adopt an open source javascript framework like YUI, prototype.js or dojo or any of the other well supported frameworks, and you will save money and gain enormous leverage. 1. The open source community tests these libraries in a way your IT department or clients cannot [...]

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