Do You Type?

I was at a lunch the other day when the topic of big business and its leadership’s unwillingness to take the Internet by storm and weave its marketing assets (like Facebook, Twitter, and Blasting) into the fiber of their business strategy is startling. 

I knew the answer. It’s one of those right in your face, too simple to believe answers. They don’t know how to type.

I got involved with the Internet in the early 1990′s on Compuserve, today’s AOL. As friends ...read more

Stanford University’s Most Popular Class Ain’t American History.

I have a friend who bats techie things back and forth with me. We got iPhones together a few years ago, both dumped them, and now I’m back with passion and sureness that it’s the phone of the future and my new best friend. I saw her yesterday, and we had words about the fact that I’m back and she has spent $1,000 on her blackberry (Don’t ask. She uses an address program that is from the dark ages of ...read more

Twitter: What the hell is it? And, do I want it?

Congrats to Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone, co-founders of Twitter, on their recent entry to Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. That’s really something. You can be virtually unknown twelve months ago and one of the 100 most influential people in the world twelve months later. There’s hope for us all. The fact that they are ten years old (ok, I’m exaggerating, but not by much), should not be held against them.

My generation had those same “think ...read more

Are you kidding me? Mozy needs to change Ad Agencies.

Dear Devin at Mozy,

The following email blast from Devin at Mozy (he’s probably the President, don’t you think?) was sent to me because somewhere I signed up for something that didn’t honor the “we do not give your email address to anyone”.  I was bored today and opened the email. I read this three times trying to find a different way to see it.

Does Mozy really think that the men were worried about their information being backed up while escaping ...read more