Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
via maketecheasier.com Great primer for newbies and veterans alike. The email notifications, when coupled with lists and Gmail filters, are outstanding and vastly underutilized by many. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
Years ago, life was simple. You created a to-do list - on paper. You checked boxes. And that was that. Somewhere along the way, as technology unleashed more inputs into our lives , the simple to-do list became glorified. The rising demands on our attention spawned an entire cottage industry of stand-alone to-do apps! Remember the old song Sixty Ways to Leave Your Lover ? It seems like there's even...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image credit: CNET It sounds like Mike Arrington is getting closer to shipping the CrunchPad - a device that does one thing (surf the web) hopefully really well. Even though I am consolidating my technology, I want to see the CrunchPad succeed. There are a three reasons why: First, I love the idea that any individual can, through smart sourcing, become not just a software entrepreneur but a hardware...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | yesterday
For those of you in the US, Happy Independence Day! There are lots of ways to celebrate this amazing holiday. In New York, the Statue of Liberty crown is finally re-opening . Every town, it seems, has a parade. Here's another idea... I am celebrating July 4 by declaring my Independence from some of the technology that clutters my "psychic RAM," as David Allen terms it in Getting Things Done...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Do you My Yahoo ? I still do, occasionally, though I iGoogle more these days. I have been using My Yahoo for over 10 years, but what's great is that they haven't stayed still. Now My Yahoo is getting more social. Yahoo today added a new social feature that lets you poll your friends right from the personalized page. You can grab it here . Unfortunately, this experience only integrates with friends...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
This is something I have been thinking about lately: as smart phones (pick one, any one) get more sophisticated, can one get away traveling for business sans laptop? For me the answer to date has been: sort of. Basically, if the trip is less than two nights and I know I won't need PowerPoint, I take the risk. Still, my laptops remain indispensible. For more, see/comment on this post from Zee on Friendfeed...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
See and download the full gallery on posterous One of my favorite Friendfeed features is called "Best of Day." I use it all the time to hone in on the most liked/commented conversations. If you're logged into Friendfeed, you can hit this link to see the most interesting conversations from your friends over the last 24 hours or this one for the past seven days. The problem with the feature,...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
Here's a fun little find for a Friday. If you have a Google Profile and you're logged in to your Google account, search for the word me . Your profile will come up as the top result. This is great if you get amnesia. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
I spoke with Rubel a couple months ago when he was visiting San Francisco for the Ad:tech conference. We met at B Restaurant near Moscone Center and I interviewed him with my Flip camera. Mark Glaser writing for Mediashift on pbs.org Timestamps of the interview are on the PBS site if you want to drill down into a topic. Permalink | Leave a comment »
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
I took a quick trip uptown today to learn more about Tumblr and meet with their team. (I will have a video interview next week up with Tumblr's co-founder, David Karp.) While I was there I shot this five-minute interview with Marco Arment , who developed Instapaper as a side project. (Follow him on Twitter @MarcoArment ) If you haven't tried the fantastic Instapaper service, be sure to check it out....
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
See and download the full gallery on posterous Robert Scoble is back to blogging, investing more time and attention this week there as opposed to Twitter and Friendfeed. He linked to me this week , which sparked my curiosity and encouraged me to dig into my Google Analytics archives to see a) how my traffic drivers have changed and b) what, if any, broader trends can be discerned. For the purpose...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
via bigthink.com More videos are here . Full interview and transcript can be found here . Permalink | Leave a comment »
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
I promised you when the site lanched that we would use it as a place to experiment with new formats and concepts in co-created content. Here's one. Maybe it will fail miserably, we'll see. If you click on the box below, powered by Google Voice , you can leave me a voicemail message. I will curate the best of these and post them to the site in a follow-up as MP3s. I am open on topics, but specifically...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
I keep a massive list on my computer called "Discovery." These are products and services I am evaluating both for potential Edelman use as well as to satisfy my own personal insatiable curiosity for new technology. I thought I would use the lifestream to open this up a bit. Here's what I am checking out this week: Google Wave Preview , Slinkset , feedly , Evernote (particularly their new...
Micro Persuasion (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
My move from a blog to a lifestream format has elicited two kinds of responses so far: approvers and doubters. I don't think this has anything to do with me, but rather it's reflection of how we're adjusting to the broader shift in media. The web is slowly moving from an architecture of pages, to one that looks like a stream. Such models favor immediacy over reflection. This was something John Borthwick...
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