Last Friday, the New York Times published an article covering new services being provided by Amazon’s Web Services. Amazon will begin granting small business access to their massive distribution centers around the country. Having become the masters in online order fulfillment, Amazon has decided to begin providing components of their existing infrastructure for a small [...]
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Jason Calacanis has posted an article about how to linkbait him. This is my interpretation: Let everyone know that I am great by telling them my exceptional bio Follow up my bio with words such as “The King”, “Almighty”, or “The Blogging Jesus” Once you are done giving me all the praise that I deserve [...]
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One after the other the big tech companies have come out with record breaking profits. Apple, Google, Amazon, and now Microsoft have smashed earnings sending stocks soaring. Apple for the first time broke the $100 per share threshold and Amazon’s stock has gone up a whopping 40% since Tuesday. Microsoft is already up 5% today [...]
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I was fortunate enough to grab a preview copy of Seth Godin’s new book ‚ÄúThe Dip‚Äù thanks to Allison Sweet and Will Weisser at Penguin Books. The book discusses how quitting is something that successful people know when to do. Ultimately, the book is filled with a few motivational anecdotes rather than scientific research, but [...]
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According to a report released yesterday by ScanSafe, 80 percent of blogs contain “offensive” content. While this is a fairly subjective analysis, it does paint an image of blogs having much less journalistic integrity for the most part. I’m not quite sure that this really is a revelation, and additionally who care about cursing on [...]
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Over the course of the past year and a half I have attempted to refine my skills at networking, a skill which is not inherited by all. During this time I have learned many lessons about effective networking. The start of this began with reading “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferazzi. This book highlights all [...]
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Today we are announcing the details for the first ever Tech Cocktail DC. The event was founded in Chicago by Eric Olson and Frank Gruber. Both Frank and myself will be hosting the event at MCCXXIII, located at 1223 Connecticut Ave NW Washington, DC. The event will take place Thursday, May 17, 2007 from 6:30 [...]
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When I was 19 I started a business called Musical Revolution. The aim was to sell independent music online, similar to what CDBaby has succeeded with. Long story short, the business changed paths (resulting in Frusic) and the website ceased to exist. While I shouldn’t have let the domain expire, I always enjoyed having access [...]
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Cause and effect? Probably. WebMD hasn’t made any significant changes in years, and then comes along Revolution Health who launched their beta over 3 months ago and has made a significant number of changes in the meantime. Most notable for Revolution Health’s website is their combination of social media and valuable health information. Revolution Health [...]
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Joshua Porter has posted about how the blog is your resume (in reference to Adam Darowski’s post). This is completely true. While I don’t have my personal resume posted here, I do have ongoing work that illustrates my knowledge of the web industry. In his book ‚ÄúNever Eat Alone, ‚Äù Keith Ferrazzi discusses using a [...]
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