When we work on websites for clients, half the time they have hosting companies, half the time they don’t. Sometimes they have preferred hosting companies, more often they don’t even know what a hosting company is. The worst, however, is when clients are paying an arm and a leg because they are unaware of how [...]

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John and I will be attending an exciting event this weekend, Startup Weekend! What is Startup Weekend, you ask?
Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects.
It’s a community building endeavor in which all [...]

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In my last post I wrote some thoughts about how businesses are starting to use Twitter, the microblogging-what-are-you-doing-right-now service.
Well, my Tridea partner and avid Twitter user, John, recently had an interesting interaction that is relevant to that discussion. Yesterday afternoon John posted this: “I think threadless tee’s designs are going down in quality”.
Threadless is [...]

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Do you use Twitter? I do. John does. Many people use the popular online service described by wikipedia as “a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send ‘updates’ (or ‘tweets’; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant [...]

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I suppose the headline “Finding the time to read” is a bit misleading. I find the time to read every day. I peruse many online media outlets, social networks, blogs, and various other information locales on the information superhighway. However, when if comes to opening a book–bound with paper and bereft of hyperlinks–it seems I [...]

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