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I Won This Week's "Follow Me Friday"

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yep, that’s right.  Yours truly has won Chris Garrett’s "Follow Me Friday" contest today.  Every week Chris picks a random Twitter follower for a prize.  This weeks’ prize was three free months of training from SEOBook.com (a $300 value).  I’m … Continue reading →

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Why AllTop.com Rules

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Michael Koby

But one extra cool thing about AllTop is the “People” section which has two sections of extreme interest: Egos and Twitterati. Think of some of the most popular “internet celebrities” and you will find all their blogs under the “Egos” sub-topic. This includes Fake Steve Jobs, Seth Godin, Michael Arrington, Fred Wilson, and many, many more. The Twitterati section contains many of these same people’s twitter accounts and their latest posts. Continue reading →

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Firefox 3 Beta 4 Improves Memory Usage

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yesterday Mozilla released the latest Firefox 3 beta (Beta 4) and with that release we see improvements in the memory usage of Firefox.  Firefox 2.0 has been the center of memory scrutiny pretty much since its release but that starts … Continue reading →

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Third Party Desktop Applications in a Web 2.0 World

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Michael Koby

Why build desktop applications when web applications are getting more complex and essentially becoming full-featured applications in their own right? Are desktop applications important in a Web 2.0, software as a service world? I want to look at that a little bit today. Continue reading →

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How Much? 140 Characters Worth

Posted on March 4, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yesterday, I listened to the latest episode of TWiT (This Week in Tech), episode 134 to be exact. In this episode, the question was asked, is there value in these 140 character message conversations being had on the likes of Twitter, Jaiku, & Pownce? One would think that 140 characters is not a lot of space to say anything in but if you really sit and think about it, you do it everytime you send a text message. Can you same something worth while in a text message? Most of you will answer “Yes” to that question. So it stands to reason that valuable conversations can be had in short, 140 character messages. Continue reading →

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People Down on Pownce

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Michael Koby

Yesterday, TechCrunch posted a note about micro-blogging website, Pownce releasing an updated API to programmers this coming Friday.  The comments seem to be swayed towards most people disliking Pownce.  People saying things like "Let it die" and "I can do … Continue reading →

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