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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Beyonce – Single Ladies
Damn, that’s a fine video…terrifically catchy tune: Curiously, YouTube has disabled external links/embeds (??? I’m using a plug-in to turn links from videos into views from my site), so here’s the direct link to the video for Single Ladies. I hope that SNL posts the skit from this past weekend with Beyonce, Paul Rudd (as [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Wine Podder of the Month – Me!
It has been a most interesting and enjoyable experience attempting to create wine with the WinePod so far. You can read more about my adventures here: WinePodder of the Month – Eric Porres
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
The best intentions for this site
Over the past couple of months I’ve been taking inventory of the various ways in which I communicate, whether is be for myself to keep track of news and information (on NetVibes), externally through tweets, Facebook updates, NYGrapes updates, dojo updates, or this blog. In short, while I hope to keep this site fresh, you [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
My iPhone apps
Now that I’m a iPhone-toter, a number of folks have asked what apps I’ve purchased/installed. They are as follows: Simplify Media Pandora AOL Radio WeatherBug Twitterific Facebook Loopt WordPress Starmap Clinometer Recorder iTalk MyLite NYTimes Restaurants PointAbout Tris Enigmo Cube Runner BubbleWrap Italian (from Lastminute.com) Translator vSNAX Google Earth TrackThing iMapMyRide GPSLite Epocrates Rx Shakespeare [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
The Tera Era or Peta is Better?
Here are some fascinating stats about data storage (thanks to my friend Glenn Rempe for finding some), spawned in part by my purchase of an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ 3TB device: From an article in Computer Technology Review: In terms of raw numbers, IDC, a leading market intelligence and research firm, estimates the volume of digital [...]
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Quoted today in AdWeek – and further explanation
Earlier today I went to Yahoo’s unveiling of it’s APT platform. Brian Morrissey, digital editor at AdWeek, was in attendance and his write-up is here. I was quoted: Eric Porres, chief operating officer at Underscore Marketing, said Apt could help make finding targeted audiences easier for agencies, but the advances will mostly be felt on [...]
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Jason Fried at Web 2.0
Just saw Jason Fried, the founder of 37 Signals (I use Basecamp and also am a regular reader of their blog) give one of the micro-keynotes at the Web 2.0 conference. Here are a few quick notes: Building Software requires… – no raw materials – can build anywhere Challenges with building software – Doesn’t have [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Free idea for Jeff Bezos, Amazon & Kindle
I’ve been thinking about getting a Kindle for a long time. I’ve had an Amazon wishlist of titles even longer; I pretty much keep any and all books I’m interested in but don’t have time to order/read immediately on that list. Out of curiosity, I added a Kindle device to my shopping cart, only to [...]
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Articles of Interest for 8/11/2008
Is Google a Media Company? – The New York Times Is Ad Targeting the Next Big Thing – Don Dodge Evil Genius: (The Good Side of PowerPoint) – Maya Design How To Demo Your Startup – Tech Crunch Facebook’s Redundant Ad Rating System – Tech Crunch Web Privacy on the Radar in Congress – The [...]
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
The Myth of the Creative Class
Jeff Jarvis wrote this very interesting and provocative blog post today. Here’s just a brief taste: The internet doesn’t make us more creative, I don’t think. But it does enable what we create to be seen, heard, and used. It enables every creator to find a public, the public he or she merits. And that [...]
