Happy Social Media Day!
A special shout out to all the lovers of facespace, bloggitty blogs, tweeps and feeds. Rock on with your super social selves!
What ever happened to service?
Being an Account Coordinator, working day in and day out with clients, my job revolves around service. My focus is on fulfilling customer needs and I take that responsibility seriously. Which means that when I leave the office I don’t stop thinking about service, it’s on my mind wherever I go: to lunch, to the [...]
Knowing: What it’s Worth
Exactly 13 months ago today, Wolfram|Alpha, a self-billed “Computational Knowledge Engine,” went online. It was hailed as a new type of search engine. Unlike Google or Yahoo!, Wolfram|Alpha wasn’t made to scan the entire web for relevant articles and content. Instead, it was built to deliver objective, factual data on the search topic as well [...]
What's the treatment for addiction to social networking?
We all have that friend who constantly explodes your Facebook newsfeed with all of his/her status updates. Or that family member that spends dinner time tweeting. And if you’re really lucky, you have the pleasure of knowing someone that takes their phone into the restroom so they can update from the porcelain throne. Nice, right? [...]
Dr. Strangebrowser or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Chrome
About a year and a half ago, Google released its first public version of its browser Chrome. Since then I’ve switched from Safari to Firefox and installed countless add-ons to make my life as a web developer easier. Lately though, I’ve begun to question my browser of choice, Firefox. I know what you’re thinking: “Brandon, [...]
3 Steps to Starting a Great Workday
The first thing I do—after I kiss my husband “good morning” and accept that wonderful cup of coffee he brings me every day—is say a prayer of thanks that I get to go to work each day in a place where extraordinary people are hired and entrusted to do what they love. And that we [...]
Secure or not? Move it, Facebook!
We all know that Facebook has grown exponentially in the past few years. Along side this success and growth, Facebook has also seen a wave of malicious and abusive applications. Facebook recently made an announcement that they are trying to keep these people from creating applications on their platform by requiring developers on Facebook to [...]
If you make it live, they will come
Boo! Twitter launched a Facebook app today that will reportedly allow me to locate my Facebook friends on Twitter, but it’s a major FAIL right off the bat. It doesn’t work! So, is it a Twitter problem? Or a Facebook problem? Twitter says Facebook. Facebook, as usual, is a little elusive. What do you think? [...]
Tihs is my bolg etnry.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the [...]
What is this thing called a "typewriter?"
Back before there was an Internet, back before there were even computers, people used to have mechanical writing machines called “typewriters.” Typewriters were a very popular and efficient way to quickly write letters, papers or news stories, and although correcting mistakes was a tedious and laborious process, typewriters added a satisfying physicality to the process [...]
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