THE DREAM IN ACTION

A few days ago, the San Diego based Mashable writer, Jenn VanGrove, wrote a post comparing and contrasting Last.fm and Slacker.com, 2 popular music streaming sites. I commented and I also subscribed to the comment feed so I could follow the conversation. I usually don’t, but wanted to see what people had to say. It [...]

Image via CrunchBase One fo the huge reasons that Gmail has been so damn successful is how simple they made the email experience. You can do it from anywhere, reliably. You can pull other email accounts into your Gmail inbox so you don’t have to have a Gmail.com email in order to use the service. [...]

I’m pretty hard core on Google services, however, I am forced to use Outlook at work, fortunately am able to sync it with my GCal using the brilliant Google Calendar Sync. When I bought my iPod Touch in preparation for my trip to China I had been hoping to double it as a PDA and [...]

Music is not something I’ve ever really blogged about. I’m not super critical with music because I find that I have a different emotional reaction to different kinds of music, I enjoy that. I’ve recently been inspired and more specific with which music I want to hear. At the same time as I’ve started to [...]

Music is not something I’ve ever really blogged about. I’m not super critical with music because I find that I have a different emotional reaction to different kinds of music, I enjoy that. I’ve recently been inspired and more specific with which music I want to hear. At the same time as I’ve started to [...]

I’m super excited that my good friend Steve Glynn of Milwaukee‘s Spreenkler will be giving a Social Media glass at Alverno College. Check out a bit about the glass in the PDF. No download necessary, embed from Scribd. Alverno Social Media Publish at Scribd or explore others:

A few days ago I read a post about document storage from Fred Wilson. His post talked about how his personal document saving practices have saved him on numerous occasions. This along with a few other horror stories I’ve heard recently cause me to purchase an external drive. He went on to talk about how [...]

Now you can comment on this blog and it will post to Friendfeed. There are many great conversations going on over on Friendfeed and I’m happy that I’ll be able to reach and engaged that community with this blog. During a talk with Robert Scoble and Gary Vaynerchuk at CES, Scoble mentioned that Friendfeed has [...]

I recently saw that I’m on the top Glue’rs list on the homepage with some pretty big names! I highly recommend that you check out Glue as it significantly improves interneting. I reviewed Glue early in it’s release because, AdaptiveBlue Glues the Web Together. 3 Reasons Glue improves interneting 1. the Glue bar appears automatically [...]

Image via Wikipedia Second Life could totally be a testing ground for everything in the real world. It’s a market researchers paradise, and Linden Labs is going to make a bundle. I’m not in Second Life, I’ve never used it, and it still seems to be one of those extreme internet things that still carries [...]

Dopplr is the web service that I use to document all my travel online. I also use Dopplr’s widget on my blog so readers know where I’ll be and when I’ll be there. Eventually I’ll attend more web conferences and it will become very valuable to see who else is traveling to that city or [...]

My top 5 words on twitter are BLOG, LOVE, GOOD, GREAT, & THANKS. I’m proud of what that says about me. Jump on Tweetstats and see how people perceive you. Related articles by Zemanta Do people value your tweets? Celebrity advertising on Twitter My first twitter post… Twitter authority & customer service Social Noise-making vs. [...]

You probably saw the Hubspot Twitter grader, most people who use Twitter regularly have. And if you have a business online you’ve probably used Hubspot’s website grader. They measure for SEO strengths, etc. Now Hubspot, just (last night), released the Facebook Grader. The measure your friends, strength of friends, and how active and updated your [...]

The Retweetist started putting stats around who is being retweeted. This is a great way to find out how valuable you are as a tweeter. Hubspot definitely needs factor in this stat (how many people retweet you) into their Twitter grader statistics. It takes the follow to the next level, follow –> share. This is [...]

There is no way in hell that I’ll believe this tweet wasn’t paid for. I’m not sure if it was paid directly from Babooshbaby.com, or some 3rd party advertising company, but it was paid for, I’m convinced. There has been many a theory that the introduction of celebs on Twitter will mess it all up. [...]