Archive | June, 2009

Import tables from websites into Excel

I have found what has to be the coolest Firefox plugins ever. I often spend hours scouring the web for bits of information that I need to bring into other documents. Many times, I’ll want to bring in a web table to Excel. This is often met with frustration and a lot of manual tweaking. [...]

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Random Thoughts – Portable Social Graph and URL shortners

Two completely disparate topics but my brain generally jumps from topic to topic almost randomly. First, I listened to a great podcast this morning discussing how social media companies need to start thinking about ways to leverage the portable social graph. Second, are short URL services harmful to search rankings? Google uses the context of [...]

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Crowdsourcing from the Crowd

John Winsor, Business Week contributor as solicited opinions from the twitterazzi about the phenomenom of crowd sourcing. Some have predicted that the crowdsourcing phenomenon will accelerate creativity across a larger network. Others, meanwhile, have predicted the practice of opening up a task to the public instead of keeping it in-house or using a contractor will [...]

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The Mic is Always On

I read a post recently about how everything we publish online becomes a decision point for someone. The author, Scott Monty, was talking about this as it pertains to a businesses social media strategy but I think it’s great advice for our kids. A few months ago, I met a young woman in her early [...]

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YouTube is Dead – Maybe

Benjamin Wayne, CEO of Fliqz, a white label video streaming  service has lit up the blogosphere with his prognosis that YouTube is doomed and is currently on life support. His opinion was based on a recent Credit Suisse report shed some light on how much money Google is using on YouTube and he believes that [...]

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