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CULT OF STEVE: Apple's mantra
I told you the whole thing is a cult. You gotta love this. Straight from Valley Wag: CULT OF STEVE: Apple’s mantra: “Steve Jobs, since his triumphant return to Apple, has become a latter-day deity, worshipped as much by techies as the shareholders he’s made rich. So much so that his admirers, from product designers…
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Business Plan Series: Part 2 – Market Analysis
In my previous post I discussed the basics of framing your plan and how to set it up. Moving forward, I would like to take more of the startup/entrepreneur/VC type of plan approach and start with the market analysis. This is because if you started with the corporate overview there wouldn’t be a whole lot…
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Review: Dan Rather
Photo: Texas Amy on Flickr Continuing my thoughts from last weeks SXSW trip, I want to talk about Dan Rather’s keynote interview on Monday Afternoon. I admit to being pretty soured by the trip by Monday afternoon, so perhaps my thoughts are a little skewed. Going into the address, I did find it massively ironic…
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Sports Video Podcast – The ACC Sucks
My first attempt at a video podcast was a 2 minute deal over at Suicide Fan desceribing why the ACC has fallen from grace. Tell me what you think.
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b5media Hitting WordPress 2.1
We grow. We suffer usage fees. Those fees come in database overhead, CPU utilization, etc. We’re hitting a number of incremental optimization targets in the next 3 weeks (by the time I go to Toronto in April, I hope) and one of them is moving the network to WordPress 2.1. Really, I’ve been very patient…
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Review: The Hampton Inn
In my ongoing review series from my SXSW trip, I’d like to turn a negative eye on The Hampton Inn. As most business travellers, I receive a per diem and with that and additional funds I had in Paypal, I was secure in knowing I had $1000 in Paypal for my trip. Nothing that could…
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Review: United Airlines
I’ve been quiet for the past week and a half and a lot of that had to do with me fgoing to SXSW this past week. It really was the worst trip in my life but it wasn’t all bad. I am home now and catching up on a large list of to-dos that have…
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Business Plan Series: Part 1 – Framing your plan
First, let me start by saying that by the time you are done with your business plan your first draft will look completely different than the one you share with everyone. There are a few different forms that your business plan will take: Business Plan Type #1 – Business Plan for You Essentially a data…
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Maryland Blogger Meetup
Bloggers and readers in the Baltimore/Washington/Northern Virginia area are invited to come out for a blogger meetup. The date is March 31 at Red Brick Station in White Marsh. No agenda, just reaching out to the blogging community in the area. b5media will be well represented. RSVP at Upcoming.org.
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Twitter, the Coup in Social Media that Is Past Due
In all the buzz over new media, social media, Web 2.0 (fill in the buzz words), there is something that has been really lacking. Sure the various social services out there make a valid attempt at addressing real-time interaction, but the strength of IM has remained the strength of IM – instantaneous. Recently, the most…