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I was reading John Udell's post on Managing Service Relationships, talks about managing your service profiles and choosing to receive or not receive paper bills, renewing your accounts etc.I have pondered this on several levels and thought about how nice it would be to have an application that would aggregate all your relationships under one interface.So this is really an application that...

Joining the Conversation is one my new catch phrases. It just sounds good, and it really means so much to me in the 2.0 world.I have seen it so many places lately and describes so much about my approach to Social Media Marketing.Marketing these days is not about broadcasting our message to an audience, it is about joining the conversation.I have had lots of problems with business owners and clients not getting ...

So I signed up for a system I really think is going to become a big part of my daily life. It is a voice to text voice mail system called Jott.It is one of the best ideas and well built systems I have seen in a while.The core of the system is I can call a number and say a word that references a name or link and then talk for 30 seconds and it translates the voice mail to text and registers it as a "jott" in the system.Th...

I have sen talk about maintaining the information you post all over the Internet and how people really don't think about the value of the information they have on the sites they use daily.If you spend most of your time on Facebook and you have a history of your friends and daily interactions for your entire time at college. This is valuable, you may not think about this now, but when you are 35 and are looking back, the value will be huge!What happens if they shut do...

Reading several posts on Yahoo's CES announcement about Yahoo Life! at Mashable - Will Yahoo Life! Revolutionize the Way We Use E-Mail?, and Read/Write/Web - Yahoo! Life! and Go 3.0 Announced at CES - is Yahoo! Back in '08?, and ZDNet - Jerry Yang offers sneak pea...

I was just playing around with Deki Wiki a free open source wiki and application platform for deploying enterprise scale applications.I was blown away with the functionality of this. It has all the great Wiki characteristics, however it goes a step further and truly is an application deployment platform.It shares some common characteristics with my Original Web Solutions Network Platform. They embraced a web services architectu...

I was just playing around with a site called the Big Think. It is a Youtube for ideas. Having various business, social, and whatever ideas flowing out constantly naturally I think this is a great idea!So I setup my profile and I am going to start putting my ideas in here and storing them.I decided long ago to stop keeping them in my notebook and start publishing them. As I post them I will write a little blog entry about them a...

I have started building OWS Network system based presentations using Google Docs Presentations. This helps me explain to customers how they can manage their systems using our tools.I noticed you can now publish the spreadsheet as an embedded presentation. This is nice for presentations that I will be publishing within sites.I will have to try and see if I can upload these to other sites and / or reference them from other sites.

The Amazon S3 team is now beta-testing support for an important low-level networking feature which has the potential to significantly increase the performance of large data transfers to and from S3, particularly for long distance data transfers.Per the thread in the Amazon S3 Forum, early results from the beta testers are quite good with reported speedups of 4x to 18x! If you are m...

A while back I started helping my daughter Kaia build her blog at http://kaialane.blogspot.com/. She really likes making pictures and stories and posting there from time to time.Recently she has been learning to read and write more so she started to want to chat with me and got on her mom's IM and would talk to me at work.So recently she said she wanted to chat with me on her own chat. So I set up a Google Account for her and setup a Gmail account so she can email an...

Noticed today that Google slipped in the ability create sub folders now in your Google docs management.Definitely a nice feature to allow me to better organize my Google Docs and keep them meaningful and combined with he search you are able to find exactly what you need.

I was reading through my blogs today and came across the post from Download Squad on Amazon Launches Software Downloads.I dug around a little more and saw where you can manager your Media Library on Amazon including E-Docs, Amazon Shorts, Unbox Videos, Kindle Books, Kindle Newspapers, Kindle Blogs, Kindle Blogs, Amazon Mp3 and Software Downloads. Read more →

I have this notebook of application ideas that I have from time to time. Its overflowing with lots of stupid ideas. So I am just going to start posting them here and see if someone has done something like it out there or maybe someone will get motivated and do it for me.Most ideas I have if I perform a little due diligence, I can find someone who is doing something similar. However some I think are unique.Here we go: I would like a

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