As you may know if you have seen my Facebook page lately, I am off with a few friends on a long-anticipated journey we vowed to make this summer. Technically I am not working this week, but this is one of those jobs where it doesn’t really feel like work and the inspiration to write…
SEO is Search Engine Optimization in laymen’s terms SEO means making your site easy for search engines like Google to recommend in when somebody is looking for what you have on your site. You can have static SEO which is how your site is built, like a home, you never change the studs, you just…
I don’t really want to complain or bash anyone here, but I recently had a pretty bad customer service experience that left me scratching my head. It involved Verizon, my wireless provider. Before I go on, I want to stress that aside from this incident, they have been very good, and I think of them as…
I’m reading here that Skype is finally going public and I had been meaning to talk about a great experience I had recently involving the king of VOIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol). A few weeks ago I had the problem of trying to meet up with some great guys you will soon be hearing about over…
Last Friday we had a meeting with my Dev team for BigRuby, which is our software that we are building for Salty Waffle. It’s live beta right now and you can check it out for free, but it’s not as intuitive as we want it to be. The frustration hurts my head when we meet,…
In school, I took a class called ‘Creating a Company’. We were responsible for starting, funding, and running a profitable business in less than six months. We were free to try almost anything, make mistakes, just as long as we were constantly looking for answers as to why certain things happened the way they did. When…
The people over at HubSpot have created another great tool for measuring your online influence and effectiveness. In this case, the relative influence of twitter account. The product is called Twitter Grader and through its simple interface allows you to get a grade for any twitter account. We have made our twitter score part of…
Last week my neighbor brought home an old laptop that used to belong to his mother. It was in need of repair so he gave it to me to take a look at. While I was fixing it, I laughed when I removed a piece of black tape near the top to find a webcam….
We always advise people to post video because it will help with your organic search ranking. So, here I am with Vlog #1. A Vlog is a video blog. What you do with your vlog is up to you but there are plenty of good and bad examples up on YouTube. At very least it’ll…
Salvador Dali was a master of Activating Emotion. His work might make you sick to your stomach, feel lonely, or cry. When I was in Barcelona last fall I took a day trip to visit Dali’s home in the Catalan resort of Cadaqués after visiting his museum in Figueres. In the taxi ride back I couldn’t…