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Publicizing discounts and expiration dates are great ways to attract new businesses from casual readers. With this, it creates a sense of urgency for each sale. However, when using those techniques, it is important to remember that you may not be reaching your full audience without including a text version with every HTML email newsletter [...]

One overlooked aspect of email and online marketing is the topic of accessibility. Many web sites have evolved over the years to become more accessible to people with hearing and visual impairments. In addition, new platforms, such as mobile devices, are transforming the way web sites and other online resources are accessed. While usually only [...]

I have a rule: the number of things you have to do will increase in an exponential proportion to the number of gadgets, whizmos, and whatchee-macallits you own. The corollary, no matter how many gadgets, whizmos, and whatchee-macallits you have, none of them will ever synch up together.
I used to keep mental notes. Then I [...]

When you are a startup company you learn pretty quickly that your technology infrastructure is based on compromise. There are many aspects of your company that you simply will not consider accepting anything less than exemplary. Your customer service, attention to detail, daily planning, product performance - these all must be super great in order [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

So it’s big news these days about Apple coming out with a product and calling it something that Cisco already is calling one of its products. This is very likely much ado about nothing as Apple certainly was aware that Cisco already had a product called iPhone. Reports are that the two companies have been [...]

After getting scolded (lightly) by the subject of my blog from yesterday - (yes, Craig Newmark was the first to comment on my questioning of what’s so special about craigslist … ouch!), let’s focus on something positive today.
Have you discovered Skype yet? It’s basically an internet phone service that allows you to talk to other [...]