While I’m no tech wizard, I know my way around a good bit of software and hardware…computer, networking, coding, etc. For example, I know enough html and css to have taken a basic WordPress template and customized it to become this site. Home networking is usually a snap. Until a service provider decides to mess with you. I live in a “dead zone” for AT&T cellular service, which all five of my family’s iPhones run …
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I’m looking forward to my first visit to SXSW. My schedule’s never permitted me to attend, and this is my first opportunity to speak. Unfortunately, my schedule doesn’t permit me more than one day: Saturday, March 9. I’ll be speaking for 20 minutes at 11:30 AM in Ballroom G of the Austin Convention Center, followed by a book signing at 12 PM at the AT&T Conference Center. The Washington Post has asked me to write …
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Innovative thinking. Human power. Sustainable energy. Endless possibility. Bicycles. These are a few of my favorite things. I have that in common with the folks at Toyota’s Prius Projects. There’s no question that Prius is an innovation that changed the world. A short digression by way of backstory that some may not be aware of. When Toyota debuted the Prius at the Kyoto Conference on global warming in December 1997, Detroit carmakers were taken by …
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One of the things I detest most as a consumer is inconsistency. Allow me to rant. Last year I purchased a piece of electronic equipment for my cycling habit, produced by Garmin, called the Edge 500 (pictured here). It’s a nifty little gizmo that mount on my bike’s steerer tube and uses GPS to track speed, routes, distance, incline/decline angles (allows me to brag that I defeated a 21% grade with ease), total ascent (another …
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Quick Note: Given recent changes to WordPress, you may not be receiving all images featured in a blog post if you receive my blog feed via email or follow it through WordPress. To remedy this, I invite you to resubscribe here at Google Feedburner. You will not lose your email option, and in fact you’ll see a number of additional options. By moving my feed away from WordPress and over to Feedburner, you’ll enjoy an enhanced …
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Think a small startup can’t disrupt a deep-seated, regulation-protected, mammoth industry? Think again. The New York Times recently featured a small financial startup called Simple, which bills itself as “A Worry-Free Alternative to Traditional Banking.” (I’d love to know how much they paid to secure Simple.com!) Who hasn’t cursed their bank multiple times? Who hasn’t worried over this, that, or the other penalty, fee, or ridiculous hoop your bank makes you jump through? Praise Simple …
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One of my Christmas presents was a Nike+ Fuel Band. After living with it for three weeks, I have a two-word review: Love it. The Nike+ Fuel Band is, quite simply, elegant. In both form and function. It’s at once surprisingly effective and surprisingly simple. It appears Nike went to school on Apple, from many respects, from packaging to styling to performance. Take the packaging, for example. It’s as clean and simple as anything from …
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All I want for Christmas is a meaningful measurement. I’m tired of “technical specifications” that have no real world application. I’m fatigued by acronyms and jargon that I can only imagine have evil engineers and masochistic technical writers in dark rooms giggling with glee (mwah ha ha ha style) while rubbing their hands together as they conjure up the next little bit of consumer torture they’ll trounce out under the misnomer of information. Why so irritable, …
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I run a small business. And like most small businesses, finding the time to deal with marketing is an issue. Glyder, a San Francisco-based startup, has just introduced its iPhone application for small business marketing. For the first time ever, small businesses can create and share effective marketing messages via Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Email, Text Message, MailChimp and Passbook, all from one easy to use iPhone app. I was introduced to co-founder Glenn Allen by friend and …
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