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Let’s hit the button on the “Way Back Machine” for a moment today. One of the things we took a great deal of time with as we started up Showcase U is talking about, evaluating, brainstorming and then painstakingly documenting the foundation for the company. This included a well researched business plan and moved to [...]

Have you stopped and thought lately about how Google (or equivalent) has changed you into a far more powerful, efficient and informed thinking being? A series of insignificant Google searches this week made me pause in wonder about what a game changer—better yet, brain changer—Google is as we each scramble for important info and just [...]

Hi gang,
Boy, do I love to podcast with the Sloans!  Our latest effort appears here:
eCommerce Tips
To briefly summerize this,  I was asked to give 3 gems of wisdom in deciding your online attack.  Here they are:
1.  Decide where your product will sell for the most money.   There are unbelievable differences in selling price across ecommerce [...]

If you haven’t read about it already, Facebook is breaking new ground with their "Beacon" feature that associates purchases with purchases and creates member endorsements alongside ads.
 
Here’s a press release that describes the service: http://www.facebook.com/business/?beacon
What do you think of this? getting on your "privacy" nerves? a good service to consumers trying to make smart purchasing [...]

Since a 17 year-old New Jersey kid figured out how to unlock the iPhone to work on any service carrier, not just AT&T (watch the YouTube video that has been viewed almost 600,000 times), people are popping up everywhere trying to leverage the situation for all it's worth, and what better place to do so [...]

This is a quick gem for today:
I don't have a landline. (Yes, in our house, we have 3 Nextel cell phones, in 3 area codes, but not a single landline.) So when a client needs an invoice faxed or wants to fax a print project markup to me, I end up having to get in [...]

Wow! Rich just outed our collective inner dweeb with his story about misplacing his cell in the frig. Next to some expensive cheese.
On top of that, the blogosphere is full of iPhone reviews, including this from the famous blogger with Montana connections, Robert Scoble.
I guess my Razor is officially no longer cool.
 

Andrew Field is President [...]

Ravenous. That’s how I describe the scene today at SouthPark Mall in Charlotte, NC. My wife and I were goofing around and thought we would check out the Apple store. Bad idea for my sanity but a great example of branding at its best. So when I got home, I checked YouTube & Digg.com to [...]

Last week I talked about the pros and cons of double opt-in. Today I want to
talk about Microsoft's Sender ID system.
Sender ID is the method Microsoft uses to check whether an email is actually
coming from the company that they headers say it is coming from. This is
especially effective against phishing (an email that uses fraudulent [...]

I have all the symptoms of an addict:
* I think about it when its not there * I’m constantly looking at it when its around * I get nervous if it hasn’t been in my life for an hour
Yes, I’m talking about that wonderful and pernicious device, the Blackberry. I am a full-on, [...]