THE DREAM IN ACTION

Over the past month or so I’ve had a similar feeling as I had back in April 2008. At the begging of April 08 I was evangelizing the use of Twitter. It wasn’t popular, it was “nerdy”, Ashton, Oprah, and Tila Tequila were not yet dominating the service but I saw value in it and [...]

I recently hoped to find an iPhone app so that I could pull up TV schedules really easily. I search the Apple app store for “tv schedules” and found 3 options (screen shot below), of which had reviews but they really weren’t enough to find out which app was actually the best. I needed more [...]

I am a huge fan of Mint.com for managing and aggregating my accounts, I have the Mint.com application on my iPod touch (getting an iPhone soon) and use it all the time. I also use ING Direct for much of my savings accounts. I love the functionality ING provides of being able to split separate [...]

Fred Wilson recently posted about the value of sharing on the web, which he called extroversion. Fred, and I, are both fairly open with our identities on the web and by doing that we’re taking a bet that the value of sharing is larger than the small chance that some web stalker will do something [...]

As the Adaptive Blue team wrote in their blog post about this new release, this update is “One Small Step for Glue, One Giant Leap for Usability”, and they are right. Before today, I always thought of Glue as the intangible social network. The data was out there, and valuable, but it wasn’t easy or [...]

Transparency in a digital world is a very good thing. You all know that I’m very transparent with my activities on the web. I always sign-up for service with my real name and I’ve never left an anonymous blog comment in my life. I really do believe that if you’re going to do something on [...]

This post is a bit less focused than most, but there have been a myriad of thoughts that I wanted to share with you guys. I’ve added a new widget to the blog that will help promote other blogs that I read and am inspired by, I’ve started using a new URL shortening tool that [...]

via world economic forum Why THE DREAM IN ACTION Has A Forum I’ve decided to add a forum to THE DREAM IN ACTION because I want the site to be more than one to many communication. Simply put, I think putting your dreams into action on a daily basis is as much a group thing [...]

In an effort to be a resource for many of my friends who have recently joined Twitter I’ve decided to post a quick list of Twitter safety tips. Many of these tips carry over to other social networks but they are written here as specific to Twitter. 5 Twitter Safety Tips Never give out personal [...]

I know there are so many blog posts on Twitter now days but I was doing research on different Twitter clients and I’ve created a decent lists with my 1 sentence write-up. Still the best list I’ve found is at the Twitter PBwiki. Also, I’ve been thinking a lot about the affect of the celebrity [...]

via vadirajcs I’m pumped that now my Tweets feed directly to Facebook. All the friends that made fun of me for using Twitter are now commenting and joining in conversations around my Tweets and my blog posts that I share on Facebook via Twitter. This is a huge “crossing of the chasm” for Twitter because [...]

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A few months back I shared an awesome Firefox plug-in called GLUE. GLUE sits inside your browser and picks up data about what your viewing, what your friends are viewing, and shares that information with your contacts. The beauty behind GLUE is that it uses something called semantic technologies, which means that it find the [...]

image via Robert Scoble’s flickr Over the past 2 months I’ve made some drastic changes to how I use Twitter (which I will share below). When I was in China, as I was reading The 4 Hour Work Week, I realized that my control over my own productivity was slipping from my hands. I spent [...]

This is our network solution for our Ecommerce case study. I’m not sure how many of the readers of this blog are technical but  I’m definitely open to thoughts, tweaks, or suggestions? I’ll also have to impliment a similar solution for my next role so it will be helpful to learn from this example. Cheers!