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Bones of Contention: Pulling on the Meetup long tail

February 18th, 2007 No comments
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Meetup has rapidly become a success at organizing people based on specific interests and bringing them together ("in person" together) to discuss their topic. There's a popular meetup for those interested in social media named "Third Monday" - occurs monthly every third... well you know. The next event is tomorrow and features MacLeans writer Paul ...

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McDonalds Web Game Why Bother?

February 13th, 2007 3 comments
Baxter Bones

I found these peel off game cards on my Big Mac so turned on my mac and went to the site to see what I could win! It started with this promising splash screen! I was drooling with excitement only to be greeted by the next screen. It got all personal so quickly asking ...

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The Voodoo Art of Printing

February 11th, 2007 No comments
Baxter Bones

In the picture below is a pile of pages I just went through, all useless and for the trash thanks to my possessed printer which has a mind of its own. It's a smartphoto printer made by some company or another not worth mentioning. It's smart in that it knows how to waste ...

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Adobe Website Wins Loop Award

February 10th, 2007 4 comments
Baxter Bones

There's nothing more frustrating than a website that loops in on itself and keeps a customer repeating the same steps over and over only to get nowhere. It's like walking up an escalator that's going down. You never reach the end. Your goal, "to buy a copy of Dreamweaver" is but a ...

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Joost a tease!

January 16th, 2007 No comments
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Nice example of viral marketing from Joost(TM). Love the token idea. Probably allows them to grow the service at a reasonal pace. Sounds like they'll need a bunch of servers. "Thank you.. ..Don't want to wait? Try getting hold of an invitation from another tester. All new beta-testers now get tokens allowing ...

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Bones of Contention

November 15th, 2006 1 comment
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Ok... so I'm happy to be on a Mac because that two button mouse just isn't paw-friendly. Yesterday I took Martin Geddes' Telco 2.0 survey It became clear to me that the 2.0 camp was overconfident. But I'm just a dog... what do I know? In Canada, Rogers is largest wireless provider and biggest ...

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