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The other day, I stumbled across BlockChalk.com, a website that interacts with your mobile phone’s GPS. Unlike Twitter, Foursquare, BrightKite, and others, BlockChalk allows you to message with others; but you do so anonymously. At first, I was not sure what to think of it. After all, what’s the point of [...]
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Woody Allen is quoted as saying that 80 percent of success is just showing up. In my experience, this has proven true in real life. This also proves true on the web. Too often, business owners neglect showing up on the web at all. Many who do make an effort to [...]
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Tonight I got to talk about web presence with some social media friends over dinner. We have all had experiences with clients who want a website or a social media presence; but they do not want to spend any time building it. By this, I don’t mean the technical parts; those can be [...]
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Holly Hoffman is working to get Social Media Club going in Corpus Christi, Texas. She is undertaking a pretty big project, which is similar to what I want to do in the Rio Grande Valley. She has the advantage of having just one town to unify; but, it is still a big project for one [...]
You may have heard that Google released a utility called Latitude a few days ago. What Latitude does is use cell tower triangulation on phones without GPS, or at least tries to do it, to figure out more or less where you are. It then puts your face up on a map to show [...]
Lately, I have been a bit scatter-brained, which resulted in a one-night mass consumption of beer on Friday night. The main problem has been a bit of a project overload. There are several seemingly important things tugging at my attention from day to day, and it gets more and more difficult to figure out [...]
This weekend I had the chance to travel to San Antonio with Sergio Chapa to the 2nd Freelancecamp in the nation, and first in Texas. As a recent freelancer, it was a great experience for learning what other freelancers are doing and for a little bit of moral support. When you make the choice [...]
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