Friday, November 7th, 2008
original photo via CC Champan - Flickr
Damn it twitter! Such a great tool but sometimes fails miserably when you need it. Much of the advanced functionality (i.e. tracking) seems to never work. Tracking allows you to receive messages based on keywords you are "tracking," very similar to Google news alerts. ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Another great Chicago web success story - our friends at Threadless.
No Advertising
No Professional Designers
No Sales Force
No Retail Distribution
= $30m REVENUE & "most innovative small co. in America."
Great going guys.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "need a cool T?", url: "http://www.georgetuvell.com/need-a-cool-t/" });
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The web used to be text for the most part. Yes, there were some photos and animations, but over the past 2 decades it was dominated by text - paper online. Hence, the reason many print media companies supplemented their papers & magazines with online material (which is never ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
I love what Jooce is doing for the 500M on this planet who rely on Internet cafe's as their sole source to the web.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "cybernomads", url: "http://www.georgetuvell.com/cybernomads/" });
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Yahoo pipes is so powerful I'm still grasping exactly how I want to use it. Yahoo will monitor any website or feed, filter the content based on your criteria, and then have it delivered to you however you want. Via email, feed reader, or even a phone call. It is ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I just cracked this book, and I'm ADDICTED.
The world IS becoming one big interconnected computer, and it's mind blowing. Computing performance and broadband connectivity is now a UTILITY, one that is essential to sustaining the global economy, & life!
Our technological capacity is doubling every decade (READ Kurzweil), and ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
I just got wind of this site, which is designed to enable people (you) to find, learn, create, and share new ideas. I'm already a fan of ted, which is a site that posts videos of great speeches from the world's great leaders, but I'm really interested to see if ...
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