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Is Time-Shifted Web Content an Alternate Channel?
I’m wondering at what point does “time-shifted” web content constitute an entirely different distribution channel? By “time-shifted,” I mean services like Instapaper, Readabilty, and Pocket (formerly ReadItLater, and my personal favorite). These services allow you to save web content to read it later, free from design, context or ads. When does this have enough usage [...]
The Consequences of Facebook’s Timeline for Pages
The Facebook tweak that killed a billion-dollar industry: Facebook recently made a change to their interface for Pages that has had a massive effect on companies using Facebook for their digital presence. Tabs have been minimized and […] companies can no longer set a default landing page. For brands, a critical chance to make a [...]
The Journalist as Media Promoter
How to Make a Dead Cat Bounce on Twitter: This article has some good advice for how to promote an article on Twitter. Weather plays an important role, too. On a weekend, I will actually go to weather sites before sharing an article. If it’s raining, most people are cooped up inside, so I can [...]
Drinking on YouTube
BLACK METAL TROY or, How to Drink Online: This is an affecting piece about the life of a 20-something alcoholic. What makes it interesting is that he became part of a sub-culture of drinking videos on YouTube. I had no idea these even existed – people will film themselves drinking to excess, just kind staring [...]
The Perils of Algorithmic Trading
How to Make Money in Microseconds: News about algorithmic trading is old hat, and we all know about the “flash crash” that happened last year. But this article has a couple interesting points worth knowing about. First, algorithms “fight” with one another. One trader’s algorithm does something, and another algorithm detects that, then moves to [...]
17 Tips for Startups
How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips): A good list of tips to help your start-up get rolling. I especially liked the last one. Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don’t live in a $4,000 one bedroom [...]
The Sharepoint Conspiracy
SharePoint and the Platform Play – How to Tie a Company into your Whole Stack: Interesting post that expounds on the true purpose of Sharepoint: tie you to Microsoft forever. Sharepoint seems very innocuous, but I’ve heard people from Microsoft say that Sharepoint is the single most strategic product the company produces and a huge [...]
Build Your Own Projector Mount
Being on a budget, we got two things for our business: the smallest conference room we could reasonably get away with, and the cheapest decent projector we could find. This means that the projector is pretty big, and takes up an entire end of the conference table. I needed a way to mount it to [...]
How to Deal with Network Hogs
How to stop filesharers from stealing hotel bandwidth: This guy was staying at a hotel, and someone was sucking up all the bandwidth on the network with a P2P app. He found an inventive way to get him off. I notice that his IP in the ntop interface changed into a name. His windows machine [...]
Opening Multiple Home Pages in Firefox
How to set up multiple homepages in Firefox: Great Firefox tip from Lifehacker. Is this documented? If there’s more than one site you always visit after starting up Firefox, you can set your homepage to open several tabs of different web sites at once automatically. From Firefox’s Tools menu, Options, General, enter the addresses of [...]