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Community

Competing with a cause

January 20, 2010

Go do a Google search for hostingforhaiti (go ahead – it will open in a new tab/window).
There are, as I write this, over 330 results.  This morning there were ten – and all related to “did you mean ‘hosting for haiti’?”
No, I meant hostingforhaiti, or the twitter hash-tag “#hostingforhaiti” – over 325 results.
Ten hours CAN [...]

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Why Twitter needs business accounts – and why I will pay for one.

December 20, 2009

I’ve had great success with Twitter – both with finding new people and places and times to talk to them – customers, potential customers – and more importantly talking to customers when they are feeling pain.
I’ve also met great friends – and had great fun along the way.  Twitter is a Petri dish – you [...]

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Shitheads and Shitstorms – or, “Sometimes people are just no damn good”

December 17, 2009

The “or” title of this post came from my visit to a local grocery chain where one day a fake haired, fake boobs, fake human BITCH pushed a nice little old lady because she was trying to find the olives her husband liked – and she was taking a bit of time to do so.
This [...]

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Why Twitter Lists Matter to Business – The Magnifying Effect

November 9, 2009

I dismissed Twitter lists as a toy at first – something interesting that would be made useful later by Client Software.
I was wrong.  Twitter lists matter NOW– regardless of client support.  They are both searchable and subscribe-able.  That makes them important.
Why?  Because companies own and cultivate “brands” – a personae.  And Twitter Lists may just [...]

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Sometimes there are a lot of servers in service. But it is still the service that matters.

October 20, 2009

I don’t hide the fact that I work for the world’s largest hosting company.  And there is very little doubt that you have surfed on a server that was serviced by our company.
When you have more servers than almost anyone in the world, you can host a lot of sites.  Hosting them is one thing [...]

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