Category Archives: geek

Meet your new customer.

By brad | Published: June 20, 2009
Lately, I’ve found myself saying, “they should be doing this if they want me to come back,” a lot when it comes to buying products or services. For many reasons, my wife and I are the new consumer, Digital Natives. I don’t think I’m being narcissistic: rather, the new world requires different thinking. I’ve had a [...]
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Local news gets, ’super local’

By brad | Published: February 17, 2009
The newspaper industry has had a steady decline in recent years. The internet has flattened the industry, no longer do you need to live in San Francisco to easily read the San Francisco Chronicle, just go to their website. Also, if you’re looking to buy a new car or rent an apartment, you now turn [...]
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12seconds.tv

By brad | Published: January 26, 2009
I just signed up for an account on 12seconds.tv. It is exactly what it sounds like, you are limited to 12 seconds of video. Kind of like Twitter for YouTube. It’ll get some traction, but I’m not sure just how useful it is. I love Twitter because I can read it in meetings, on the [...]
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the landscape

By brad | Published: January 23, 2009
The online world has changed quite dramatically in the past 5 years. It has grown from a single track, bull-horn and a soapbox world, to a conversation. The advent of YouTube, Flickr, Friendster, and Myspace we’re all predictable. People like taking videos, photos, and talking to each other. These first wave social networks paved the [...]
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Neither Clever nor Charming

By brad | Published: January 21, 2009
haha Take Starbucks–or, as I should say, Brad from Starbucks. Considering that over 30,000 people follow Brad, he does an excellent job answering questions and talking to people. His tweets aren’t overly clever or exceptionally charming. But then again, neither are Barack Obama’s, and quite a few people seem to think he’s fantastic at Twitter. (emphasis added)
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Upgrade

By brad | Published: January 1, 2009
I just upgraded to wordpress 2.7 … It was actually pretty easy. I like the new interface so far.
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What is Twitter?

By brad | Published: December 11, 2008
In the past 6 months Twitter has become a major function of my job. We’ve had some incredible successes, all of which I’m very proud of and none of which I will repeat here. However, for the non-digital-native crew, this world is completely unknown, and in some cases scary. I’ve tried multiple approaches when someone asks [...]
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The hack that would have ruined the internet

By brad | Published: December 1, 2008
This 26 year old discovered a hack that would have destroyed the internet. It’s a fascinating read, even my wife was interested in it when I started telling her about it. His path started with trying to get free wifi at Starbucks. He remembered that he had gotten into Starbucks’ locked network using the domain name system, [...]
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Welcome to my new blog

By brad | Published: October 14, 2008
After flailing away at an exclusive music blog. I’ve decided to branch out. I have plans for this one, and it’ll be grand. I like the theme I just found, it should offer me lots of capabilities to do some cool stuff with photos, and other stuff. okie… enjoy.
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