Experienced Technology Entrepreneur
Chief Encouragement Officer

Experienced Technology Entrepreneur
Chief Encouragement Officer

WordPress Plugin Test: Embedly > Jing Screencast

The first test of Embedly parsing a one line YouTube URL worked great. I learned that the plug-in did not work with my WordPress CKEditor plugin – CKEditor was a more advanced WYSIWIG editor for posts – giving me a bit more control over the HTML layout,...
WordPress Plugin Test: Embedly > YouTube

WordPress Plugin Test: Embedly > YouTube

Testing how the Embedly plugin for WordPress will automatically render over 100 types of links for photo, videos and products into a rich media blog post just by pasting the link into a single line in your blog post. If it works as suggested – it should...
Saving Historical Tweets on my Blog

Saving Historical Tweets on my Blog

Recapping and Saving Tweets Each Week on the Blog I made the decision a while back to focus on my blog as the ‘hub’ and use the various social networks, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter – more as ”spokes’ for distribution of content. Since the...
When is the last time you used a phone book?

When is the last time you used a phone book?

The new phonebook is out. I see them is stacks by the doors in every office. Just sitting in the floor… I was just wondering, “When is the last time you used a phone book to find a number for a person or a business?” — for me it’s been...
How Are People Really Using LinkedIn?

How Are People Really Using LinkedIn?

LinkedIn now has over 100 million users. It’s interesting the way top level executives use the service in vastly different ways from entry-level workers. via How Are People Really Using LinkedIn? [INFOGRAPHIC].
The Declaration of Independence (Must Read for July 4!)

The Declaration of Independence (Must Read for July 4!)

Direct from the federal archives, here is the Declaration of Independence. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, and signed by 56 representatives of the original colonies, the Declaration sets out the reasons why the Continental Congress voted on July 2, 1776 to separate...
How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets [INFOGRAPHIC]

How Agencies Are Spending Online Media Budgets [INFOGRAPHIC]

The Modern Media Agency Series is supported by IDG. IDG predicts online ad spend will reach almost $35 billion in the U.S. for 2011, an increase of nearly 14% from 2010. While online advertising continues to register significant gains quarter to quarter, the...
Top 100 Most Valuable Brands 2011 by @BrandZ

Top 100 Most Valuable Brands 2011 by @BrandZ

For those who are interested in a little more than just the Top 100 Most Valuable Brands for 2011, the report breaks everything down by industry and region, while also providing some interesting opinion from industry leaders along the way. You can download the PDF...
Full List: The World’s 50 Highest-Paid Athletes

Full List: The World’s 50 Highest-Paid Athletes

No. 1 Tiger Woods, $75 million, Golf, Age: 35 Woods has failed to win tournaments or sign new sponsorship deals since his November 2009 car crash and the infidelity scandal that followed. Yet he retains two valuable partners, Nike and Electronic Arts, both of which...
Three-player chess game invented

Three-player chess game invented

Wow – as a someone who loves a good game of chess – this looks so intriguing! This small company, http://www.3manchess.com/  has invented a round chess board and a set of rules that enables three people to play chess at once. via Three-player chess game...
8 billionaires created now at Facebook

8 billionaires created now at Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg ranks 52 on the Forbes list of billionaires. 28 years old and worth $13.5 billion. Facebook has also created 7 more billionaires, Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. Facebook has also billionified investors Peter Thiel and Yuri Milner...
Jerry Seinfeld launches site of all his videos performances

Jerry Seinfeld launches site of all his videos performances

This is how it should be done. TV funnyboy Jerry Seinfeld, concerned about posterity, has created an awesome curation site that will ultimately contain nearly all his content, mostly in video format. It just went live seconds before this posting. Watch and laugh:...

The Digital World, Now and Soon via @Digitizd

This is an amazing visual look at how the digital world looks today and how it will change and look in just five more short more years. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/23903009[/vimeo] via The Digital World, Now and Soon | Digitizd.  
Todays Twitter Updates May 2011

Todays Twitter Updates May 2011

Just saw that in WW2, 43 million American men were registered for combat service. Today we have 1.4M active and 1.5M reserve personnel The Startup Genome Project Examines the Science of Startups http://bit.ly/j9q5xg Dog Sucked up by Tornado Finds His Way Home...
Navy SEALs Recruitment Ad – Sneaky…

Navy SEALs Recruitment Ad – Sneaky…

Called “Footprints,” it was created in 2006 by director Stu Maschwitz and Detroit ad agency Campbell-Ewald. Maschwitz started out at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic, then co-founded top visual-effects company The Orphanage, where he worked...