Tales from the Techside

So the blogosphere has been lighting up with references to the recent launch of Roostsm. It has been quite interesting to read the reactions to the product on many levels.
Having played some small part in helping to bring this product to market, I though I would make an effort to give a description of the […]

This industry amazes me sometimes.
When I first traveled to a native fishing reservation off the northwest coast of BC in 1980 for the first of what was to be many glorious summers, I was immediately struck by the curious cultural echo. The music that I was really into 3 years before was popular there […]

Ok, hardly worthy of Cartesian logic, but there is something to be said for the concept. If you are not creating content, and blogging is perhaps the best way to do so - as we have repeatedly stated on this site, then as far as the online world is concerned, you do not exist.
One […]

I am hearing a lot of this right now. To say that this is a tough time for many in our industry is an understatement.
So what can you do? Well, without knowing your business model and strategy, it is hard to answer precisely. But I thought it might be a good time […]

 
Lately a lot of the buzz seems to be centered around the emergence of online games and virtual worlds as a great place to meet and attract new clients. I have had a number of agents who had never heard of Second Life before approach me ask me what I thought about the idea and […]

Congress will consider legislation shortly to create a national ‘Do Not Track’ registry. I just wanted to remind them, if this goes forward, to call Al Gore and remind him to turn off his internet, and be sure to shut down the dot servers on the way out the door.
Seriously.
As usual, when I start […]

The last couple of weeks have been spent at meetings which have panel after panel of guest speakers on the stage speaking about how sites today need to be more with the times and how you need to embrace mashups, widgets, google maps, and all the other cool crunchy toys of the internet. However I […]

So your newish neighber sleeps all day and makes noise at absurd hours in the am. Of course you have shared your frustration with your family and friends, but that still leaves you feeling frustrated and needing some kind of closure. A quick search reveals that there is a user-contributed content website (lets […]

During my ‘digital life’ as I have worked and grown with technology I have seen a number of interesting things happen, ‘quantum leaps’ in thought and implementation. Yet certain puzzles within technology, certain ‘debates’ still rage and always will. My personal favorite is local vs central, or thick vs thin client, or centralized […]

SEM - Search Engine Marketing. SEM can be viewed as an extension to or as an alternative to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). In brief, SEO means you put only ’sweat equity’ into your efforts to perform better on search engines like google. SEM means that you pay for clicks. SEM and SEO […]