Jackie, from CoC , responded to my quick comments about open source marketing and touched on how Tivo was pimping out their customers as opposed to letting them share in common marketing goals. Here is what she said: "TiVo *could* have open-sourced their...

Sandyk wrote an excellent post that I believe captures why many people remain die-hard baseball fans in an age where soccer, football, and basketball are taking over. " There’s a ton of beauty in baseball. There is indeed flux and it occurs in each individual...

I'm most of the way through " Leadership" by Rudy Giuliani and wanted to share two of my favorite excerpts so far. Read to the end to get a glimpse into how I see us applying the fundamental vision that could be extracted from them. First, He talks about...

I'm not surprised in the least that Firefox was able to secure funding from loyal users to pay for a full page add in the New York times. What I am surprised about is why anyone would say this is the future of PR? I could agree that blogging and social...

Today I tried to add some concept of post ratings to my page , but it's apparently beyond the limits I can control through the CSS overide since I can't add scripts to posts. Oh well, would have been cool. Here's hoping ratings make it into a drop we...

Just a collection of things swirling around in my head recently... I can't believe I've withheld my excitement from this blog.... The Red Sox BEAT THE YANKEES AND ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!! Will Ortiz cost them playing first base in the NL park...

Yesterday our VP, Soma, quietly announced a mini-project I was involved with after a conversation only a week ago about how his blog was going. Highlighting and aggregating the feeds of the Devdiv leaders certainly won't win any innovation awards, but...

Special Post Disclaimer: My standard disclaimer applies, but also remember that I don’t work for the Xbox Live team. Anything here is purely my opinion and examination based on what I see as a consumer of their outstanding service. My team owns delivering...

In the online world there will always be debates and discussions over security and privacy. What always surprises me is that everyone seems to be “up in arms” over security/privacy concerns surrounding your digital information over the internet, but never...

Recently Mark and I were talking to some of the folks behind the ISV Buddy program about some concerns we had. The concerns came from people on our teams that had experience in the program but, when put to the test, neither Mark nor I had actually signed...

I have yet to try out any real alternatives, but I think PowerPoint is an excellent piece of software. It does what I tell it, how I tell it, and it never takes me very long to learn something new. In the last couple of months I’ve been working to seed...