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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So recently, I started recieving bonce back message in my inbox indicating of people complaining about spam messages getting sent to them. It would appear that someone has begun forging my domain name (cotellese.net) in order to send out spam. How can this happen? Well, it’s actually quite easy for spammers to replace the From [...]

I hate dumping stuff needlessly into landfills. I had an old PC sitting in my basement for two years because I didn’t want to get rid of it. I recently discovered that Staples has an electronics recycling program that allows you to bring in old PCs and for $10, they will dispose of it in [...]

The Consumerist website noted that Facebook recently changed their Terms of Service (TOS) so that they now effectively own all of the content you post on their site. I verified this on their Terms page. I’ve copied the relevant section below. You are solely responsible for the User Content that you Post on or through [...]

I came across this on Overstock tonight. I find a few things amusing about this picture. First, I appreciate that I’m only being charged a dollar for shipping but if I paying close to 100k for a watch you think they’d throw the shipping in for free. Second, there’s only one left. Who’s buying this [...]

History has shows that as the public adopts new media, savvy politicians are quick to embrace it. FDR used radio to sell his New Deal, many argue that Nixon lost to Kennedy due to his poor appearance on televised debates. So it is in this election season as candidates try to figure out how to [...]

I just downloaded the recently release Open Office 3.0 productivity suite. On first launch of the software, I was prompted to register the software in order to help Sun determine the global market share. I didn’t mind doing this so I clicked the Register button. What transpired was a very long process requiring me to [...]