Monthly Archives: May 2010

What happens in New Orleans stays in New Orleans

Events
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Unless your friends all have cameras and camcorders. Once again, I find my mortality at the hands of the New Orleans Hurricane. I am not sure when I will learn that whenever Europeans and Australians agree on a drinking game, … Continue reading

Reverse Engineering Karl’s $249 package

IT Business
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Karl has made quite a bit of noise with his $249 / 5 user package and how he’s making money hand over fist. As usual, the devil is in the details but you can sign up for his Cloud Podcast … Continue reading

Taking a leave of absence

Boss
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Effective Jun 1st, I will be taking a 2 month leave of absence from my role at Own Web Now Corp. While I will live up to my commitments on the road and webcasts that have been scheduled, I will … Continue reading

About Superpowers

IT Business
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Knowledge is crack, just try it and you’ll be hooked. And you’ll find out how clueless you were beforehand, or how clueless everyone around you is. That’s what’s so wonderful about technology, Internet, etc – it’s possible (given time, effort … Continue reading

Getting to Android Froyo (2.2) now!!!

Mobility
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You have to hand it to Google, they really don’t stop. The announcements that came from the Google I/O conference this week (regarding TV, mobile, etc) are just amazing. They are pretty much the fastest moving IT business these days … Continue reading

Best blog post comment ever: “Nice Eulogy”

IT Business
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It took over a week to catch up with the comments regarding the “Death of a Services Salesman” blog series. I’m glad so many of you enjoyed it, I got more comments on this and more ad money than ever … Continue reading

Comment Moderation

Vladville
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Sad to say it, but for the time being I have enabled comment moderation on Vladville. If you post a comment, it will not immediately show up. The recent series of DoaSS has increased the traffic and pushed Vladville earnings … Continue reading

How do you back up a ton of stuff?

Gadgets
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This one is for my buddy Howard Cunningham (CEO of Macro Systems LLC, our go-to service provider in the Washington DC area) who has a unique challenge in backing up clients monster SAN. What Howard ran into, and the challenge … Continue reading

Book Club

Boss
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I’m back at work today, trying to implement all the things I had a chance to think up during my vacation and I’m facing a bit of a reoccurring problem in trying to improve my staff. Once upon a time … Continue reading

DoaSS: Coping & Profiting

IT Business
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Over the last four posts I looked at the major factors contributing to the death of the IT solution providers in the SMB sector. To quickly review, we’ve seen a lot of people hang up the hat because: They were … Continue reading