True story: I once signed up for eHarmony. Well, let me clarify—I never “dated” using eHarmony, but I did create an account. But I had a good reason. Once, not so long ago, when I was single, I was driving down the road and heard an ad for eHarmony on my car radio. I heard […]
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I called my ISP the other day (Qwest) to ask for an upgrade on the speed of my DSL line at home. When I did, I learned something very interesting: Qwest employees don’t know the difference between a megabit and a megabyte. Cut them some slack, you may say… it’s an easy mistake to make. Right? Wrong—this […]
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Square Card Reader
Here’s a pretty cool video I found that talks about the Square card reader. (I’ve got one of these, by the way, and it’s totally awesome). Here, the Wall Street Journal interviews Jack Dorsey, (also the co-founder of Twitter). It’s kind of funny to me—both Twitter and Square are incredibly simple ideas. Actually, two of […]
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Google Wave – The Email Killer (Not)
I’ve found the recent commentary on Google’s decision to shut down Google Wave rather entertaining, and sometimes annoying. For several reasons. Here are a few: I wasn’t impressed with Wave in the first place. I watched the big overblown video announcement at Google I/O, and I was excited at the time, but amidst all […]
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It’s Time To Go Electronic (For Real)
I was talking to a client a while ago who happens to be my dad’s age. I told him that he needed to get an iPhone or Palm Pilot or some other electronic daily planner. I’d been egging him to “go electronic” for months, and that once he did, he would wonder why he hadn’t […]
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What I Mean When I Say “Cool”
Something I’ve recently caught myself doing is calling features and benefits “cool” when talking to friends and customers. For me, this is natural, and it’s the result of good intentions. Cool means everything wonderful and worthwhile. It’s actually a business term, as far as I’m concerned. Apple makes cool products. Google has a cool search […]
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Remember Those Disposable DVDs?
Today’s subject is the history of technology, and predictions we used to make about where we’d be today. So, if I really wanted to, I could go way back in time and write something cliché about what previous generations predicted we would have been driving by now… hovercraft, rocket jet packs, personal spaceships, lunar rovers, […]
Every once in a while, when I pull out my iPhone to put in a calendar item or check my email, someone standing next to me will strike up a conversation about smartphones and eventually say something like “I would get an iPhone, but they’re too expensive for me” or some other comment that seems […]
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MacWorld’s Shortened URLs
It’s no secret—I like URL shorteners. A lot. And as long as my mind’s still stuck on the subject of technologies that were ahead of their time… I was leafing through my MacWorld magazine at the kitchen table the other day, and saw (as I’ve seen a thousand times before) their unique way of providing […]
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Remember AOL Keywords?
How many of you remember watching TV about a decade ago, and seeing commercials for large, well-known companies (and I mean really large ones—say, for example, Proctor & Gamble) and hearing “visit us on the world wide web at www.tidedetergent.com, or type in AOL Keyword: ‘laundry‘”? I was thinking about this the other day… AOL […]