September 2008
5 posts
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BarcampBankBC | From the other side
I love Barcamp’s. I love what they stand for, how they are organized, the people you meet, the bonds that are made, the inspiration you can walk away with. It’s fun. This past weekend I attended a Barcamp, BarcampBank actually, in Vancouver, British Columbia from Texas. “What?” That’s right. I watched, nay participated, in a BarcampBank from the coziness of my...
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Setting a standard for phone conversations
Alright, I want to set the stage here and see what yall think. My wife and I are going to start doing this. Let’s establish a standard rule for any phone conversations (cellular or otherwise) that if you get disconnected during the call, whomever initiated the conversation does the call back to re-establish the call. So we don’t have that awkward, “Are they going to call me...
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People can't scale | So what, is that the Web's...
You hear that statement a lot, right? People don’t scale. Whether it’s stories of endless email or having to ‘trim down’ their RSS feeds or Twitter followers, people can’t keep up with it all. So my thought today was to take the contrarian view and ask, “So what, is that the Web’s fault?” As everyone knows by now, anyone can post content...
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FedEx Office rocked my world
I’ve felt lately that if I’m going to bitch/complain/rant about a company that I should also congratulate/cheer/high-five some companies, too. Fedex Office (used to be known as Kinko’s) completely blew me away the other day. I needed a couple hundred one page brochures printed pretty quickly due to me running for the airport later that day and didn’t have time to go back...
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Betting on the future - Part 2
This post has been held for quite some time and for the sake of finishing a thought, I’m just going to go ahead and post it. You’ve been warned. ;) This is a continuation of the first post I was writing about ‘Betting on the future’ and the question was left of why not leave Banktastic as a free, ad-supported service? Many of the social networking sites today are...