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Goodbye old friend…

By On January 11, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Part of what makes today’s Internet so much fun is the tools and toys.

But I digress.

Five years ago, WordPress was a new and cutting edge stack for desktop publishers and content owners. Five years ago, I was stuck dead in the mud of having my own websites built from my own [...]

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We need George Carlin back

By On October 13, 2011 · Leave a Comment

As a rule, generally speaking, I stray from politics on my website. Always have. And, I’m not breaking that rule today….much.

With all of the Occupy Wall Street movements popping up, constant negative news about joblessness, our degrading economy, the lack of equality of the middle class let alone all Americans in sharing some semblance [...]

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Nokia N9 looks good!

By On June 27, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m a dedicated Apple enthusiast and an iPhone user. With that said, I have to give credit to Nokia for producing what looks like a very compelling smart phone.

Knowing that the N9 is running the allegedly last version of MeeGo before jumping ship to WinMo, this new device is really pretty. Nokia have always [...]

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Indexing the web w Fwix

By On June 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Geo-tagging is nothing new to the evolving web, but Fwix is taking it to new places with it’s “hyperlocal places database” stack.

Through a new API they have created and one line of JS, companies/business can geo-tag their pages. The end result is rather compelling from both an end-user perspective and from a social perspective.

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What does “innovation” mean?

By On June 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

What does “innovation” mean?
I’ve considered this question many times over the course of my career.

Where I sit presently in my role and the business I work for delivers me at the intersection where I contemplate innovation often. Most specifically, I ruminate over how a company innovates within a service industry. Where the [...]

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I can’t feel sorry. Sorry.

By On February 10, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This week, Warner Music Group announced that it lost $18 MILLION (that’s meeeeeelion) dollars over the last 3 months of 2010. Additionally, information was disclosed that the loss comes from the company’s declining stock value, which allegedly fell by 12 cents in the period. To further bottom out the news, WMG’s revenue decreased [...]

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Traveling, is good. San Francisco, is lovely.

By On January 7, 2011 · Leave a Comment

For a large chunk of 2007 and almost all of 2008, I spent a lot of time in San Francisco. I worked for a fascinating start up company based in the Mission District and because of my role (Sr. Product Manager) I needed to be in SF quite often. At least to start. At [...]

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“Think different” applies to today.

By On December 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment

In my line of work, I often travel the intersection of brand and product. That intersection being what the company (or client if work related) makes and how they decide to sell it. In today’s world, that process is incredibly cluttered by the multitude of vehicles a brand can employ to get our attention. TV, [...]

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Fall in PDX, changing of the seasons

By On November 3, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’ve lived in Portland for almost 10 years now and observing the changes in the seasons never gets old for me. As someone who lived in the concrete jungle of Los Angeles for close to 15 years, I view the ability to experience the change of seasons as a right and a privilege. Because [...]

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Almost November? Really?

By On October 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

It’s been 2 weeks since having arthroscopic knee surgery and I’m feeling awesome. The swelling is long gone, I’m a week into physical therapy and I’m back at work newly minted into a strategic/solutions position for CMD here in Portland. I spend a few hours a day looking like I do in this picture…..staring [...]

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