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Andrew

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Limitations

Limitations, originally uploaded by frank-c. I’m working on making this jump…

Announcing HowTwitterWorks.com

I hit the “go” button on How Twitter Works about two weeks ago because it seems like my number of “real world” friends on twitter has exploded beyond the circle of technology/internet fiends I have been following on the site for the past two years… I think [...]

Mankiw Blurs The Blog/Textbook Line

Harvard Economics professor Greg Mankiw announced today that his publisher has put together a “blog map” which outlines relevant content on his blog and maps it to parts of his widely-used Economics textbooks.  As far as I know, this is one of the first effective instances of [...]

Oh the places you’ll go…

As 2008 winds down, I noticed a few other people posting their year-in-review travel recaps and thought it was a rather nice idea.  Most of these are also listed over on Dopplr, a great web app for tracking your travel schedule and comparing it to friends who [...]

Hiatus…

I’ve been a bit absent around here lately due to my recent relocation to New York… I have a few posts in draft that I need to polish up this week: a quick post about the Future of Web Design conference I attended last week and a [...]

Moving to MediaTemple

Possible site outages over the next few minutes as I migrate the site over to MediaTemple.  After a few weeks of testing the waters, I’ve decided to move all of my domains and client sites to MediaTemple… Bluehost was fine for my first year of internet presence [...]

It’s Never The End. Just The Transition.

I am really rather late in getting this post out the door, but life has been a bit…I’ll say ‘stretched’…as of late.  Earlier this month I accepted a position with Ripple6, a great company based in New York City  that develops white label websites built on a [...]

Twitter Spammers Get a Business Model Before Twitter Does.

I just noticed that “Oct 2008 12″ is a trending topic on search.twitter.com… check out the feed of people sending out tweets with nothing but the following text: “What a day . Wed, 08 Oct 2008″ At first I thought this was just some random thing but [...]

Guest Post at SearchFuel.com: “How To Stop Making Visitors Hate Your Website”

The agency I work for runs a blog dedicated to the world of search marketing over at SearchFuel.com and today, I’ve posted my first contribution to the subject matter.  Well, since I’m no search expert, I instead posted on website usability, because ultimately the only reason people [...]

Social Media Is Bigger Than You Let Yourself Believe

I’ve been asked a couple times recently why I got into the world of social media research and engagement.  I love it because I want to be on the express train to the future and I think I picked the right one. Social media is about allowing [...]

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