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Two New Projects Launched

August 8, 2009

This week was a busy one for me.  I launched two new websites: hallornohall.com and smartcarvs.com.  Both of these sites are purely just for the heck of it.  If they get some traction, great.  If not, great.
Hall Or No Hall is a co-creation with my long-time pal and business partner, Matt Thompson.  Our graphic designer [...]

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Lessons Learned in 2008: Use Your Leverage

March 26, 2009

Getting things to go your way in the workplace is not always easy.  You have to use all of the tools in your arsenal to convince others that what you want is best for a project, your team, the company or yourself.  Sometimes that tool is charm.  Sometimes it’s humor.  Sometimes you have to drop [...]

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Lessons Learned in 2008: Work With the Best

February 14, 2009

I’m so glad 2008 is over.  It was a difficult and stressful year—perhaps the most difficult of my short 10-year professional career. “Never again,” I’ve been telling myself in hopes of avoiding a repeat year. So I’m going to be dedicating a few posts over the next few days (or weeks) discussing some of the important things that really [...]

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When RSS Ads Attack Part 2

December 9, 2008

Catching up on my RSS subscriptions, Digg’s feed had this gem for me…
Oddly enough, I know what Habbo is from research I did for a project a few years ago. Yep, black hole.

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YouTube Take Down Notice

December 5, 2008

I just received this email from YouTube about one of my videos from my trip to Hawaii…

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RSS Ads Are Funny

December 3, 2008

Now that Digg injects advertisements into its RSS feed, I’ve been noticing some funny headlines accompanied by even funnier ads served by Google.  Like this one…

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Big 3 U.S. Automakers Must Contract

November 18, 2008

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a pure business-related post.  Maybe because I’ve been bogged down in petty office politics lately, or maybe it’s just that I don’t have an active start-up I’m working on, but whatever the reason I’m compelled to write about what’s going on with Detroit.
I watched the Senate hearings with [...]

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Not What It Seems

March 3, 2008

For a while I’ve had ongoing conversations within my group of business friends about core businesses.  The conversation goes like this:  companies say they do Y but act like a company that does Z.  It’s a discrepancy in perception (or public relations) and actuality (which usually isn’t so public).  I was reminded of this topic this morning [...]

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Prior Art

February 25, 2008

Last Thursday I received an email from a friend, George Colombo, that pointed me to an article that Apple had filed a patent for “customized podcasts.”  I was immediately surprised and dismayed, quite frankly, because my business partner, Matt Thompson, and I had actually developed the technology (we called it Modcast) and implemented it on [...]

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Discount Gas for Cash?

February 13, 2008

I was on my way home work tonight when I stopped at a Exxon/Mobil gas station, surprised to see the above sticker plastered on the pump.  I immediately thought that it was very odd.  In my limited experience with merchant accounts and credit card processing, I thought this sort of practice was not acceptable per [...]

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