1 day ago

TechWag Image via WikipediaCauses is a social networking donation platform that uses MySpace so that people can raise money for causes or issues that they believe in. Generally these kinds of activities help provide a community around issues like Breast Cancer, or stop smoking, or other issues that are part of our daily life. Cause (Read More)

1 day ago

CloudAve Image by david⢰ via FlickrMost of us at least look at our spam queues on our systems on a semi-regular basis, what is always interesting is to see the variances in tactics that spammers are using to try to get their stuff into your system. This time it is all about jokes, ones my kids would like. There is nothing wrong with (Read More)

2 days ago

CloudAve Image via WikipediaWith apologies to Intel for usurping and corrupting their commercial tag line, in a classic “our rock stars are not like your rock stars” move, Stack Overflow (one of the best programming information web sites out there lately) has opened up a job board with a twist, employers will browse and beg you to w (Read More)

2 days ago

CloudAve Image via CrunchBaseThe good news in looking through my Google Dashboard is that overall is a dull testament to my lack of Google use and that it is not like looking at my FBI file, if anything my FBI file is really cool – it is amazing what people will say about you for a federal background investigation. If my Google dash (Read More)

3 days ago

TechWag Image via CrunchBaseI am a diehard Microsoft Fan boy – even though I own an Apple and Linux boxes and use AWS for most of my infrastructure needs at work and at play, Microsoft still is an important part of my normal work day. But with the release of Don Dodge (who I have met at a couple of conferences, and listened to him (Read More)

3 days ago

TechWag While I am on the subject of measuring and metering social networking over on Toolbox, what I was thinking of was a simple approach that many people could take to monitor Twitter and Facebook in one fell swoop for occurrences of keywords, like your company name. Fortunately both TweetDeck and Seesmic can allow you to monito (Read More)

6 days ago

PocketSmith There's a new List-Building event just announced and it's called Starrs-Giveaway…Sign-up Here:http://is.gd/4JEdm #Peoplestring webinar starts in 10 mins http://ping.fm/FYuwx to register then signup at http://ping.fm/CcZEH #There's a new List-Building event just announced and it's called Build Your List Giveaway…Sign-up Here (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

CloudAve Image via WikipediaNow that my two cloud servers have been up and running long enough for scanners, hackers and other folks to find them. What is interesting is seeing what kind of hacker activity the two cloud servers are seeing, and how they are standing up to being exposed on the internet. A bit about the servers, they a (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

CloudAve Image via CrunchBaseJust a quick note this morning on the idea of random numbers and productivity losses around the use of social networking, but other sacred cows like Fantasy Football we shrug at. Companies do not generally tend to block access to Fantasy Football sites, but the productivity loss playing the Fantasy Footb (Read More)

Oct 26, 2009

Google Alerts - science fiction podcast ... Liked "15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction – Evil corporations | io9" http://ff.im/-aoyAV #; Liked "Steve Ballmer shows off Windows 7 on TV with a huge MacBook pro in the background running, ehm, Windows 7. ... TechWag - http://techwag.com/. (Read More)

Oct 25, 2009

Hiphop Phire RT @lynneluvah: RT @mashable Bill Cosby Learns the Twitting, Tweeting, Twit and Tweetie [VIDEO] http://bit.ly/1vWLYD #RT @tweetmeme Viral email - Is Kanye Stealing Your Shine? | My Philly Network http://retwt.me/19pRa #(Please RT!): Apple’s Magic Mouse Does Multi-touch and More http://bit.ly/3Vy0Ht #RT @tweetmeme Live Qik V (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

CloudAve Image via CrunchBaseSocial networking when taken from the viewpoint of connecting people works; it is a brilliant way of getting people together across various age and demographic groups. The side effect of all this is that as we become more highly connected to each other we do tend to end up living in a fish bowl, everyone (Read More)

Oct 21, 2009

CloudAve Image via CrunchBaseJohnny Worthington who is one of the more dynamic and interesting people on FriendFeed issued an open letter to the developers of FriendFeed to find out what is happening with the web site. Many of the FriendFeed users (myself included) have an emotional and time investment in the system that is not easi (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

TechWag Image by pchow98 via FlickrWe all have a vested interest in how data and data privacy is enacted by companies, regardless of the environment, cloud, mobile (laptop, cell phones), private Data Center, or anything else that is a combination of the above. Companies have a vested interest in keeping their customers data private (Read More)

Oct 20, 2009

CloudAve Image via CrunchBaseIn general, social networks can be a good thing; the only problem is when the noise level becomes too high to have any meaning when it comes to sharing information. Over the last few months, Facebook games have exploded as Farmville and Mafia Wars get more and more players. The only problem with this is (Read More)

Dan Morrill

Thank goodness the upgrades went ok.