Category Archives: General
Twitter for the masses
I saw this retweet pointing to Jeremy Toeman’s article Will normal folks ever use Twitter?”. (By default that makes me un-normal….)
He makes an excellent point which matches my own experience. Most people don’t see the added benefit of using Twitter. The uses are difficult to grasp. Especially since Twitter turned off the SMS service for [...]
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Technology Leapfrogs
I like this quote from Hacktivate:
We need to stop underestimating people. Don’t expect Africans to be content with boring old SMS and voice for long. Smartphones, droids and even iphones are much higher up Maslow’s hierarchy of needs than we realize, especially if nobody around owns a computers, your schools suck, and the government controls [...]
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The web is evolving
Kevin Marks on Publics, Flow, Phatic, Tummeling and Out-groups – New Words You Need to Know to Understand the Web:
How to Backup your Twitter World
As many of you probably learnt by experience, Twitter Search only shows results for the last couple of days.
I guess, one of the preliminary assumptions is that you consider your collection of 140-character-long phrases valuable. And would like to search thru them from time to time.
Friendfeed
One easy workaround is to add your Twitter stream [...]
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Today’s link
Stumbled across this – very high-level but might be a useful reminder. Esp. the remark “life is short” in bullet no. 5.
1. Don’t worry about being perfect. There are never right or wrong answers to complex business decisions. The best that you can do as a leader is to gather all of the information [...]
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Impatient new-media pundits
Quote of the day:
One of the things slowing tech uptake by the rest of society is that you new-media pundits get so impatient you have moved on to the next thing before we’ve had a chance to digest your last idea.
via Scoble’s “Why I don’t use Google Reader anymore”
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Intro to SEO and SEM
I am faced with the challenge to explain SEO and SEM in a 1 hour presentation. The audience consists of business folks.
Where to start explaining is the hard part.
Also there are so many myths in this area – garnered by SEO vendors selling their services as a “Wunderwaffe” for instant web traffic success.
As is typical [...]
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Moving Wordpress from Server to Server
I found this video explaining how to import large MySQL using Big Dump
And Yoast explains how to change the domain names here.
Study weekend + Long walk
I spent most of my weekend working and discussing my MBA homework.
Learning about:
the exchange equation
money supply
the monetarists’ first and second proposition
the cause of inflation
incremental cash costs
motivating employees – “interesting work” seems to be a universal motivator
This afternoon I went for a long walk up to St. Chrischona (522 m. above sea level). Lots [...]
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Blogging is Dead. Long Live Blogging.
This morning I read a phrase which captures why I blog:
“…now my attitude is that if I’m not blogging for myself it’s not worth it” (seen at ma.tt)
Between you and me, I don’t care if blogging is dying. Let the social media experts decide. What I do care about is writing. I like the [...]
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Cloud spotting: the pointing finger
I took snapshots of clouds (and pool water) at the local swimming pool (in Swiss German: that’s a Badi…).
This looks like a hand raised at school to answer a question, or maybe somebody is pointing out something:
“Can you see the silver lining? Every cloud has one”
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Malawi Twitterers
As Malawi celebrates independence day tomorrow, here is a list of Malawi twitterers you might like to follow:
Vincent Kumwenda – currently at Muloza border, Mulanje; topics include Malawi news, world news, interesting Malawi web pages, and soccer. He also writes a blog.
Fred Bvalani – in Blantyre; tweets about mobile applications and phones, Oracle training [...]
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Requirements
This web project manager had a requirement blackout today. In a meeting at the day job somewhere in Switzerland, I seriously couldn’t remember if the tool that I evaluated six months ago – and which I am now using – runs on a Microsoft server.
(Err… Microsoft server? Was that a requirement? )
Sometimes memory fails. [...]
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Connections
As social media is becoming more mainstream, I find I am discussing various tools and voicing my opinion in many daily situations.
Half-geek that I am, I have explored quite a few tools over the years.
For instance I find myself explaining:
Why I deleted my Xing and LinkedIn accounts. Why it’s not such a good [...]
Google Mail Tips
I discovered a couple of very useful lists of Gmail tips
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