Is Google+ New or Just the New Google Wave?

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So that’s what Google has been working on for the past year+. Google made it official in their Google+ blog post that Google is going full bore (again) into “social”. Word is that this slow public release (think early days of Gmail, but maybe even slower) is designed to prevent failures like Google Buzz and [...]

Oh Dropbox, what’s the next mess?

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My unabashed love for Dropbox is certainly being tested. First there was the whole we can’t decrypt your files, okay yeah we always could issue, which while bad wasn’t terrible. Yeah, well Dropbox didn’t again, except this time much worse. This time Dropbox engineers pushed some code into production (made live, etc) that disabled password [...]

RSS is dead like voice mail and telephones are dead.

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Brent Simmons wrote a solid post about RSS today and his points got me thinking. Brent talks about RSS as part of the plumbing, that although all but a few hard core geeks (like me) use RSS readers, we all use RSS on a daily basis—without even knowing it. Podcasts through iTunes? RSS powered. App update [...]

Would you buy a book on how to be a successful telecommuter?

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I was inspired by a post today—How to Hit Rock Bottom and Come Back a Business Owner—and it’s put me at a bit of a crossroads of sorts. Right now I’m hemming and hawing about the choice to make, so I’m turning to you all for some insight. I’ve got three books under my belt [...]

Updating Editions—What did I miss the first time?

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Here I thought that being asked to write a book (or three) was pretty cool. Nope, turns out being asked to update them for a second edition is better. If the book was a flop, then the publisher wouldn’t want to spend any more time or money on it, but if it does pretty well, [...]

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