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Bud
Ann Arbor, MI
Creator of many things.
Interests: mobile, search marketing, the cloud, gaining real value from all of this wonder.
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Where I'd like to be
I'm extremely good at conceptualizing, initial launch, and getting seed customers. I like that kind of early startup opportunity. I'm also extremely good in navigating bureaucracy, more with the goal of getting around it than complying with it. Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2010 at Micro Notes
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html5 and the mobile web don't play well
I'd like to see a mobile html5 demo Continue reading
Posted Apr 20, 2010 at Micro Notes
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The Idea of a personal cloud
After I asserted that Apple didn't have a cloud strategy, I had someone suggest to me that Apple didn't have a cloud strategy because consumers didn't care about the cloud. It was only a corporate thing for people looking to garner efficiences. Little could be further from the truth. Anyone who uses webmail or facebook is in essence using the cloud although the infrastructure may be supported by just one company. Anybody who uses their facebook logon on another site is taking advantange of facebook's willingness to syndicate their services out for use by other providers. That's at the heart... Continue reading
Posted Apr 17, 2010 at Micro Notes
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Tonight
So, let's just call this post a small aperçu. Tonight, stepping from the strip mall coffee shop, I experienced the beauty of nature with no frame to contain her. Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2010 at Micro Notes
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Yes, Lebron and James (ex Smokey)
This blog is now syndicated into Google Buzz
This has been over a month coming, and I started another blog in the interim. You can read the full saga here. Yay!
This blog is now syndicated into Google Buzz
This has been over a month coming, and I started another blog in the interim. You can read the full saga here. Yay! Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2010 at Micro Notes
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Mar 15, 2010
The web is about narrow casting with broad reach
Most people are niche players on the web. They have expertise in one narrow area, for instance search marketing, and that's it. What often plagues such people is that their reach, the circle in which they are known, does not extend beyond their local community. The web can help with that by allowing niche players to make themselves visible beyond the narrow confines of their locale. Continue reading
Posted Mar 5, 2010 at Micro Notes
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Buzz could be the social media grand central of sharing, but it's flawed and nothing quite works right
I've been using Google Buzz since the day it launched. At first, it seemed like an improved version of Google Wave, and indeed the two share a lot of features such as an underlying messaging protocol that makes updates appear in real time like instant messages. But, there is a fundamental difference that makes them not at all alike. Wave is private, by invite only. Buzz, by counter, is essentially a public aggregator of all things you. Sharing is hard in Wave and on by default in Buzz. The problem is that Buzz breaks in most sharing use cases. I'll... Continue reading
Posted Feb 13, 2010 at Micro Notes
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I posted your final grades. They should show up soon.
Final results
Hi all, I am just curious how we will get the results for Iteration III and the blogging? I have not seen anything on emuonline. Will there only be the final grade somwhen in the my.emich- student-tab or how is it usually with the IS279 grade? - Jassin
I'll live ;)
Sorry, Bud...
...but the Droid is sooooo 2009. Come January, Google may render it redundant at best...
As I announced in class, blogging ended last Wednesday
Hi everybody. I see folks still posting. As I announced in class several, blogging ended on Wednesday. The blogging grades are done. If you are doing required posts for the iteration, that's fine, but anything after Wednesday did not count toward the blogging grade. Continue reading
Posted Dec 13, 2009 at Bigger Buy Button
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Large Haldron Collider-- its not as dirty as it sounds
"The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday." Holy Mackerol. This is huge guys. Geneva. The Atlas "experiment". Two beams of circulating particles traveling in opposite directions at 1.18 trillion electron volts made this collison possible. This "experiment" will hopefully put physicists a step closer to understanding dark matter, antimatter, and the creation of the universe. Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2009 at Bigger Buy Button
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Orwell forgot the good parts of 1984: why I'm liking Google's embrace of all my data
Google recently announced that individual search was opt out. In other words, unless you specifically say no, Google is going to track your web surfing behavior and use that behavior to tailor the search results it displays to you. I now have the Google phone (Android) which is tied to my Google account. I use Google location services and Gmail. Basically, Google's got it all, sort of like Big Brother in Orwell's 1984. Should I be more worried? The truth is: I'm getting a ton of use out of it. Search results have gotten better. I can find nearby friends... Continue reading
Posted Dec 8, 2009 at Micro Notes
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You're almost a senior citizen.
I is...
Graduating!!! From graduating high school back in '99 (shut up, I'm getting old), to attending Washtenaw Community College for several years, taking a year or two off here and there, to my years at Eastern, it has been a long (10 years), hard (working full time and school part time), road...but...
Ryan, you should be just fine.
Adwords Success
This semester it seems me along with my team have done fairly well. I have decided to enroll in the Google Analytics course and I hoping I can exceed in that also. The thing that I am worried about is if I will have enough knowledge of html and css to suceed in the course.
Rendell, you need your links to work as links. I can't click on this. Also, you need to assign a category to each post.
Kindle becomes more vision-impaired friendly.
Amazon is making their current e-book reader more accessible to all. One of the reasons that this idea was pushed through was that a college in New York refused to recommend kindle to students unless amazon made it more accessible for the visually-impaired who would also be able to use the kin...
Andrew, put the pages on people.emich.edu and post links so that we can see what's going on.
No Luck
I'm getting no where with validated my pages. For when i first stared making them i put CSS style in them and i think thats messing up my validation process. Everyone i try doing it something with style in it is wrong. im getting very frustrated
You realize that this was an April Fools, right?
HTML 6
Post Update. Yes, This post from the organization that develops HTML is mocking the future capabilities of HTML 6. Even though HTML 5 has yet to be fully supported by all the modern browsers, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ('WHATWG'), the organization that develops HTML s...
yes
Hey Bud?
Hey Bud i am trying to validated my landing pages but i seem to be having a problem because i have Css style in my web pages already and if i am reading the validation sheet right i don't think it likes it in their. Is it possible to skip html 4.01 and go right to XHTML???
It's good to see that your in-class personality shines through in the rest of your life. I like the "poor running conditions" excuse for the failure to advance between efforts 2 and 3. It raises the question as to whether effort 4 was due to "exceptionally favorable running conditions" ;).
Holiday Hustle results
Official time: 27.12, 8.46 minute miles...finished 474 out of 1237 runners. Also 33 out of 102 in my age group. Proud? Heck yes! It honestly felt like I was running so slow because so many people kept passing me. Next time, I'm going to start further back so that I can pass people instead :) 1s...
In search of time lost, or how Google search won't take you back to the way it used to be
Recently, I discovered an old, old friend via a Google search. You might say she had been hidden in plain sight using an obfuscated blog name intended only for her current close friends (she remains an incredible writer, exactly as I knew her 30 years ago). I found her because someone linked to her blog using her name, and Google has gotten good at ferreting out even the most obscure references and raising them to the top. At any rate, I think one of her recent blog posts, and my response to it pretty well sum up how the explosion... Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2009 at Micro Notes
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Dec 3, 2009
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Dec 3, 2009
I don't just want to know what my friends think. I want to know what people who know something think.
A lot is being made of a face off between Google and Facebook, and perhaps between Google and all social media. The idea of a face off has a lot of facets and perhaps some merit, but one claim by Ken Auletta, recent author of Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, is just idiotic: A potentially more efficient threat will come from a vertical search, which social networks like Facebook and Twitter might provide. Imagine you want to buy a camera. Would you rather have the advice of 20 friends whom you know and trust and... Continue reading
Posted Dec 3, 2009 at Micro Notes
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