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Hammock T-shirt+Photo=Laptop Equals Very Cool

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Nashville’s Hammock Publishing has a 16-year-old annual tradition: giving T-shirts to the people they work with throughout the year. This year they added a new twist to that tradition: T-shirt+Photo=Laptop.
If you received a T-shirt, Hammock asked you to add a photo to a world map on their website. For every five photos added to the [...]

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Regardless of Outage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Still Rocks

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets should I put my eggs [...]

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What Technology Companies Can Learn From Apple

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

At Sitening, we’re strictly an Apple shop — we use Macs in every part of our workflow. Several of us yesterday were watching a live feed of Steve Jobs’ Keynote speech with keen interest, “oohing” and “aahing” as the feed was updated with shiny new products. This led me to ponder what we could learn [...]

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Decoding Your DNA: Does First Class and Economy Already Exist?

Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

I was intrigued by a recent Wired Magazine article, 23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics. Although I don’t have $1,000 to have my DNA decoded right now, I’m still fascinated by the idea of learning what my genetic predispositions are. For example, did I inherit my dad’s genes [...]

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The End of Stag Hunting

Friday, November 16th, 2007

It used to be that conducting a search for “sitening” in Google would result in Google asking you if you meant “stag hunting.” As always, I would say to myself, “no, I didn’t mean stag hunting you stupid #$*@(# search engine!” Although the first result was always our website, that nasty did you mean [...]

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Review of Flock 1.0 - Get Your Flock On!

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Having never heard about Flock before, I was curious to see if it was just another browser jumping on the social networking bandwagon. Being a dedicated Firefox user, taking advantage of its rich user experience at work and at home, Flock will have to work its pants off to get me to use it as [...]

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Gmail and IMAP - Why You Should Care

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

IMAP and POP are both popular methods for retrieving email from a server so you can access it on your desktop. Both protocols date back to the 1980’s, and both are supported by most desktop email applications. Unfortunately, unless you manage your own mail server, IMAP support on the server has been a [...]

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San Diego Wildfire Updates with Google Maps

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Today Stasia and Kellie wrapped up another Google Adwords Seminar - in the middle of the San Diego wildfires! While they’ve been making their way through road blocks and airport delays, I’ve been looking for some useful information about the location and extent of these fires. The traditional news outlets have done a [...]

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Google vs Text Link Ads

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Google has reached a monopolistic milestone with its recent changes to the treatment of paid links. While I believe they are still operating within reason, they are edging ever closer to the danger zone, after which I will not be surprised to see regulatory intervention.
Recent changes to Google’s index have been focused around the [...]

Posted in Commentary, Google, SEO, Strategy, Tech Industry | 3 Comments »

Cold Hands Require Alien Gloves

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

I’m hot-natured and I crave air conditioning. This is especially true for where I live — Nashville, TN. Having the climate control set to around 72 degrees Farenheit is heaven for me. At work, when it’s not in the triple digits like it was the entire month of August 2007, our office stays relatively cool. [...]

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