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Suddenly I Wanted to Take Their Money

The other day, I got an advertisement encouraging me to revisit an account I once created at Freshbooks. It was a pretty attractive invite too, nice looking and offered good visual incentive to get back with their program. This ad, and its distribution, was obviously costly.

I logged into the derelict account and took a look around. Much had improved and it was motivating me to click that upgrade button. Eventually I just had to review pricing, I was damn near sold and needed very little to push me to go ahead.

Of Mice and Men, and Softa Codeworks

About 22 years ago I was a cub reporter, the new kid covering provincial politics from the Press Gallery at the BC Legislature. Computers, being in their infancy, were pretty rudimentary. My PC blinked at me each morning from within its CRT Monitor, the kind with orange text on black backing. The text was what [...]

Facebook Replace Email?

The other day I received an interesting email from a friend. He was leaving for the Orient and took the time to let me know this would be his last email, and from this point forward all his communications would be on Facebook. “Incase you are wondering why your email has gone down, it’s because [...]

RIM Circling the Drain, Yet a Strong Comeback is Plausible

RIM (Research In Motion, maker of Blackberry) Needs to rediscover it’s roots in security. They need to do so with certain haste. Having been thrown for a recent loop, RIM was reported to have had to lay off masses of it’s people (although none in it’s maritime head offices). What the media neglected to include [...]

iPad Loyalty May Force Online Retail to Do Over

Devices have taken the computing scene by storm, it started with the little iPod Touch from Apple, which everyone loved… but it’s main user turned out to be people who wanted it for far more than tunes. As a result, a multitude of apps came out from FTP and other cool tools, to word processors [...]

128 Bit Encryption More Secure than the Waiter

Have you avoided purchasing items online out of fear of identity theft and credit card fraud? According to a 2010 report from the US Better Business Bureau, online identity theft is less severe, is quicker to be detected, and on most occasions the amount of financial damage to the victim of offline identity theft is [...]

Ditch HTML, Fire Your Webmaster if You Have to

Software is today’s method of interactivity, be that guest books, flip books, shopping carts or blogs. Interactivity or “cool stuff” is all run by software. One of the more concerning things I’ve seen in web business development is the dog pile of costly mistakes that come with the addition of software. Mistakes are often compounded [...]

Twitter and Facebook does not “Oprah” Dethrone

Today celebrity headlines were bubbling with excitement, it was all about the names creeping up on Oprah Winfrey as most the influential among the famous. The two that stood out where Lady Gaga and Justin Beiber. And somehow, the number of followers they have on Twitter and Facebook… was party to the outcome. I happen [...]

What Does Guitar Hero have in Common with Monica Lewinsky?

Remember Lorena Bobbit and Monica Lewinsky? What do these two have in common with the Big DVD Store on the corner, CSI, the LA Times and Guitar Hero? All of the above are (or push) products that we have lapped up for decades in whatever format (and with what ever content) delivered. In the past, [...]

YouTube is Cool, But it’s not News

Several years ago, a news agency was charged and fined for having fabricated a video, showing it later as a supporting part of a story. They needed an SUV to overturn and couldn’t get authentic video of it, so they set something up to show their point. While there were plenty of cases of SUV’s [...]