Live blogging Future of Social Media Forrester event at SAP
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008I am at an all day event that Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester is hosting and Jeff Nolan introduced me to this cool live blogging tool: Cover It Live.
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I am at an all day event that Jeremiah Owyang from Forrester is hosting and Jeff Nolan introduced me to this cool live blogging tool: Cover It Live.
Wee Sing
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008[caption id="attachment_381" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Book with children songs, sheet music and CD"][/caption] My favorite quote from They Might Be Giants is: Music self-played is Happiness self-made. I recently heard a neuro scientist say that we probably developed singing in parallel to speaking and that you can't destinguish a scientist's brain from ...
Community Research by Rubicon Consulting
Monday, September 29th, 2008When we started SDN and I joined the team, there was Harry Max consulting for O'Reilly. He helped me tremendously to grow into the community guy that I became. Tonight I had the chance to be part of en event where his new stomping ground Rubicon Consulting was introducing research ...
Twitter my Twitter
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Your performance problems are well known. Here a little improvement idea that is trivial to implement, but would make a big difference to your users and helps your performance too. Add more information into your follow notifications. Example:
What TechEd in a month already?
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008First SAP TechEd of the year in Las Vegas just about a month away. Still so much to do. Come to Community Day for some cool stuff.Nice little countdown widget written by Abesh inspired by Marcelo Ramos' Countdown Widgets
1/3 of US corn used for Ethanol?
Saturday, July 5th, 2008Today I got a sticker shock at Trader Joe's. My beloved walnuts that I use in my morning muesli are $7.50 now. I recall having bought them just a couple of years back for $3.50 75% of that price hike is directly related to biofuel. Turns out that over ...
NowPublic lock-in tricks
Monday, June 30th, 2008Three days ago I get the following email regarding our Wildfire Haze picture. The text reads interesting, NowPublic looks like a citizen journalism site : :: Your California wildfire photo Hi Mark & Marie Finnern, Here's a personal note from <name withheld>: _____________________________________ We're running a news story about the ...
Wildfire Haze?
Saturday, June 28th, 2008Yesterday morning we looked out of our window and the sun was already high up, but we were able to look straight into it without straining our eyes. We think the California Wildfire smoke is creating the haze. Picture taken by Mark & Marie Finnern.
2304 Bunker Hill Monster House
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008The San Mateo Highlands is one of the oldest and most comprehensive Eichler Communities in California. There are numerous coffee table books about this neighborhood and its developer Joseph Eichler, a pioneer of the Mid-Century Modern movement who parlayed his efforts into affordable California Modernism for the masses. The all-steel ...
Sticky Stickers off my Fruity Fruit
Monday, June 9th, 2008The other day I was at Safeway which is trying to go upscale after watching Whole Foods successfully take your whole paycheck. Lots of money there. Consumers are willing to pay premiums that run 30% and more, especially for perishable items such as produce. What frustrates me endlessly are the stickers on ...
