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Tactic #2: ‘Listen’ to the internet…

This entry is part 5 of 13 in the series Top 10 Tactics and Tools
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In case it’s not obvious by now, I’m very passionate about ‘enabling’ technology – technology that enables people to go beyond themselves and accomplish great things. My favorites sites are sites like Lifehacker, Mashable, Stepcase Lifehack, etc. – you get the point! I read the geeky stuff looking for good, fast and cheap tools so [...]

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Qwiki Just May Be The Future Of Information Consumption. And It’s Here Now.

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What is Qwiki? from Qwiki on Vimeo. In the late 1980s, Apple created a few concept videos about a device they called the Computer Knowledge Navigator. These videos came up recently when Apple unveiled the iPad, because the machine in the videos is a tablet computer. But that’s about all the iPad has in common [...]

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While you were sleeping 2/5/2010

Image via CrunchBase Facebook celebrated it’s 6th bday yesterday — stunning the impact they have had on the world… “According to Wikipedia and its Info page, Facebook was launched exactly six years ago, on February 4, 2004. Back then it was called “Thefacebook,” and it was originally located at thefacebook.com, but it’s definitely the same [...]

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Auf Wiedersehen, wunderschöne Hannover…

One week ago today, I wrote this while traveling across the German countryside by train… “It’s Sunday morning and I’m sitting on a high-speed Inter City Express traveling from Hannover to Köln [Cologne for those of you who don't remember your high school German] where I will spend an afternoon unwinding from Agritechnica and enjoying [...]

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I’m continually in awe…

…of great technologists or entrepreneurs whose work solves critical problems, often while battling against great adversity. Despite our obsession with our current high tech culture, not all such stories come from this decade — or even this century. I just finished watching the first part of a two part A&E series called Longitude based on [...]

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