THE DREAM IN ACTION

I’ve taken a few days off from blogging to re-focus myself a bit. I need to remind myself that (currently) I don’t blog for profit, I blog for personal development and fun. Sometimes you need to take a minute, re-boot, re-focus and then hit it again. It’s been nice to take a bit of a [...]

My post yesterday about how I thought Twitter was starting to focus on UI was pretty damn accurate!

Alltop the “digital magazine rack” for blogs and non-traditional online media re-launched today with a new look and feel. As content was being added at a ridiculous pace the service needed a better way to structure its content so that it was searchable, sortable, and relevant. You can go to Alltop’s blog to see all [...]

This is the keynote at the Web2.0 Expo in New York this week given by Fred Wilson. It is extremely cumulative and shows super potential for NYC going forward. Fred – great work on this presentation and Jeremy great work on the slides!

Today Twitter launched a new sidebar design on their web platform. Its seems now that they have tackled there performance issues they have moved their focus to improving the design. They have now added tabs to the right hand sidebar to help you navigate your tweet conversations. They also improved the styling of your following, [...]

This was the fan favorite at TechCrunch50 and is simply amazing. The language barrier at the Q&A made it difficult to understand where they will go but check out this vid to see just how crazy this idea is.

Image via CrunchBase Metrics are everything. I love things that can be measured and I love figuring out why things happened by looking at raw data versus speculation. This is one reason why I love Google Analytics. This site xefer.com gives some interesting charts for your Twitter use. Here’s how I’ve used Twitter. Related articles [...]

I was adding a trip to Dopplr because I’m headed down to Chicago this weekend for a wedding and I realized that my Dopplr carbon emissions was 1,423 kg since I started using Dopplr in May. The conversion to US pounds is 3137.18 Which means I’ve used 156.86 gallons of gas in my travels outside [...]

  Recently I was asked to serve on the advisory board of the “SOHO Enterprise” that consists of SOHOBizTube.com, Magazine SOHO a print publication, and the NAKED Biz Growth conference series.  I’ve accepted the position on the board for 3 reasons. I believe that Magazine SOHO, the first of the 3 entities is in a [...]

Last night my girl friend told me the story about how she used to collect Beanie Babies. They use to be the hottest thing and she started collecting very early in the hype. Beanie Babies started in Oakbrook, IL so being from Wheaton, IL she was able to get the most desired Beanie Babies quicker [...]

 I usually try not to directly reblog stuff, but this post on ThePoint’s blog by founder (and friend of mine) Andrew Mason didn’t need to be added to. Jeffrey Zeldman has an idea. Just as they once united to stamp out cigarette advertising, radio and TV stations and advertisers must get together and agree that [...]

Tonight I got the new Chromium for Mac. Google was too slow and open source developers have release a Chrome for OS X and Linux. The developers do recommend not to use this as you default or main browser as there are some “quirks” but it is exciting none the less to see a version [...]

Image by Zemanta via CrunchBase Today I started using a new blogging assistant service called Zemanta. Zemanta helps accelerate the content production process of any blogger. Zemanta reads that article, post, etc. and recognizes contextual content (similar to how a spell checker reads your doc), then Zemanta searches the web for relevant pics, links, articles, [...]

In the past 3+ months ActionsTalk has grown from a conference to a full blown startup spotlight hub. We’ve served the national (soon global) startup community and we’ve worked to serve the local Milwaukee community as well. Our growth along with some awesome viewer feedback (thanks to Frank of Brew Brands) we’ve found a way [...]

Jack Humphrey over at The Friday Traffic Report states that Ryan A Graves.com (http://ryanagraves.com) is in the top 142 social media blogs on the web. In a group with Mashable, Chris Brogan, and PR 2.0 that is a pretty big compliment! Thanks Jack! Related articles by Zemanta Interview with Jack Humphrey