More from Google’s Data Liberation Front… Export and Zip!

October 26, 2009

I’ve written about Google’s Data Liberation Front before… They are the nice people dedicated to making sure its as easy to get your data out of the cloud as it is to get it in.
Today they announced a new feature worth acknowledging.  A beefed up export feature for Google Docs now allows you to convert, [...]

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Thanks socalTECH… Perfect Pitch – Here I come!

October 23, 2009

Last week my team was reviewing our upcoming event calendar and the subject of PerfectBusiness.com’s “Perfect Pitch 2009” event came up.  This event is perfect for us – thousands of entrepreneurs and a list of business leaders that reads like Fast Company and Forbes had a love child.  Richard Branson is the keynote speaker, which [...]

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How often should I mail to my subscribers?

October 23, 2009

How often you should mail to your audience is a tricky question.  Every audience is different, but more importantly, every user is different (unless your users are Agent Smith from The Matrix, or Oompa Loompas, but I hear that’s a terrible market right now).   I’m sure there are a million studies you can check out that will tell you [...]

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Did I mention it was FREE? How to use social networks to glean free stuff

October 22, 2009

One of my favorite Pinky and the Brain episodes features Brain creating a Papier-mâché copy of the Earth, luring the entire population to mock Earth by offering free t-shirts in order to take over the real Earth.
By simply offering something free, Brain was able to lure mankind out of their homes, up a ladder and [...]

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The Red Zone Effect

October 20, 2009

A year or two ago my employer was kind enough to cover the costs for me to see an executive coach, to accelerate my skills as a professional and a leader.  It was a good opportunity and I had many “Ah-ha!” moments during my sessions.  One that has stuck with me for a long time, [...]

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Google sends a cease and desist over an Open Source OS?

September 28, 2009

Late last week Google made a move that seems to fly in the face of the open source nature of the AndroidOS.  It’s almost like they knew I’d been writing about open source phones.
AndroidandMe.com reports, the big G sent a cease and desist letter to Cyanogen (aka Steve Kondik), one of the Android community’s top [...]

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Google Calendar Makes Following Your Favorite Teams Easy

September 24, 2009

Earlier this month Google Calendars introduced a new and improved version of a feature they had mysteriously pulled a while back.  “Interesting Calendars” is a subscribe-to-calendar type feature that makes adding common calendars/schedules to your own calendar simple and clean.  Not only can you add the birthdays of your contacts with just a few clicks, [...]

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Google Apps and Data Portability

September 23, 2009

One of the many reasons that I pushed Google Apps for Startup Army was because I knew the data wouldn’t be locked in.  With the constantly changing technology landscape it’s impossible to predict where our infrastructure will end up. No matter what other solutions we chose or directions we went we’d either be able to [...]

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Open Source and the Palm Pre: Nerd Out!

September 22, 2009

I’ve had a palm device of some sort since 10th grade when I got the PalmPilot Personal.  After 13 years and about 8 devices (that I had), Palm FINALLY developed a brand new, ground up operating system known as WebOS and put it in a sleek new phone, the Palm Pre (for the record, I [...]

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Tech Networking in Los Angeles

September 22, 2009

My friend Mark Long recently asked me about networking in Los Angeles. Mark is a CTO, see, and his company, PortBlue, was recently acquired (congrats, Mark!). After transitioning to the new team, Mark was left to wonder, what now? Where do I need to go to meet the people that I will “build the next [...]

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