Technically Speaking

Technically Speaking, how hard is it for you to go green to show your support for the people of Iran that actually got off their asses when their system failed them?

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While it’s been brought up today in two different posts, one by Steven Hodson over on the Inquisitr which I saw earlier, and now it’s been re-plugged on SiliconANGLE by Rizzn, I really don’t see the sameness that both guys are pushing. Leo Laporte’s claim on Twit is just that. Twitter is a totally different entity entirely. I never have gotten the two confused.

I’ve always liked what Leo has done for the older generation of geeks, but come on now – Twit and Twitter? Not even close to the same. Never have I confused the two products or brands. Plus I don’t believe either one has been referred to as the other. I don’t think anyone has thought Twitter had anything to do with Leo’s show/brand called Twit. At least people with a little common sense and knowledge have never thought that.

If there is in fact any type of case to be brought up, its should be the case of day late dollar short. That’s right. If Leo wanted to make claims to Twit, his registered trademarked brand name, why in the heck does he wait until 2009 when Twitter the totally unrelated brand and never referred to the Leo brand Twit, to make a public gripe about it on his FriendFeed? Can you say stir the pot, and jump on the twitter money train?

What money though? I guess when you have the momentum, Hollywood can think of turning anything into a reality show. Now that Twit has realized that they missed the moment of opportunity, and just let Twitter slide by unopposed, they jump in with this idea that somehow their trademark and brand is now infringed. I think they are stretching for an easy revshare pay day, and the courts might grant it, even though they’d be totally wrong to do so.

Technically Speaking, Twitter and Twit – never have confused one over the other in my mind. Vote in my twtpoll if you want too:

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Because Jones’ Big ASS Truck Rental and Storage is funny:

And if that’s not good enough, here is commercial # 2:

Technically Speaking, because it’s funny! btw, he is from Chicago and not the #STL as I was just told via AIM!

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After a year of it being on the market, I happen to be in Target last night looking for a $10 DVD cleaner and ended up walking out with (Nintendo smart marketing tactics – the price hasn’t dropped in over a year!) $89.99 WiiFit. They are not that hard to find nowadays, as I saw 5 of them at a BestBuy a few weeks back. Last evening at Target there was exactly ONE. I summoned the electronics person to unlock the case.

Last night I plugged it in to get my initial body test, and yeah, I could have told you I was overweight and out of shape! Didn’t need the board to tell me that. I figured I’d start the actual exercise part tomorrow (today).

Today, I figured it was time to get in some sort of routine and give it a go. Did I look like the below pictures? Somewhat. I went through each exercise one time to give me a full WiiFit run through. The nice thing, I was able to unlock extra exercises and games. That was cool, so more for tomorrow to try.

Technically Speaking, we’ll see how this works or even motivates me to do other things, such as play some corkball if it ever stops raining!

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First off – Happy Cinco De Mayo! Kind of cool that it falls on a Tuesday this year. >:-? If you didn’t know, a little while back a twitter friend of mine said something to the effect of “I guess my sarcasm didn’t come through on twitter?” It didn’t. So I stated, “You should have an emoticon that depicts sarcasm!” That is when I came up with >:-? for her. I now use it all the time when I’m being sarcastic.

What is this new twitter use? For quite a bit now, I have had a contact form on this blog’s contact page. I have also had it on another page which I call Advertise. Both have been great annoying harbors of stupid ridiculous spammers. I tried another form this morning, which just had more spammers hit it almost immediately. That is when the tweet-god went off in my head. “Why not just tell people to connect with me via an @ or DM on twitter?

Technically Speaking, the above isn’t a ground breaking twitter use idea, but for me – at least with twitter I have more control over who follows, who I follow, who I can outright block, and who I converse with via @ or DM. While not ground breaking, twitter just solved a spam problem for me. Feel free to share this idea with others!

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While I posted yesterday about the BGCC launch press release, I started to think about this today – and decided to do a quick twtpoll.

Technically Speaking, I never seem to have much of a response out of these and have been told it’s because I give nothing away for you to vote! So for those people that get a great response to your polls – What do you give away to get people to vote???

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Wow! The month of April has sped right on by. I guess that is what happens when you have one full time gig and a couple of part time gigs going on. So here are some quick items that just ran by me today that I wanted to share

- PercentMobile – Grab your invites if there are any left! I talked to David the CEO late this afternoon and he opened up some more invites, but those could be gone! You really need to know what your % Mobile is. And don’t forget to follow the twitter @mobileanalytics

To get a sense of some of the data you would see, check out this report for FourSquare, the mobile social network that MG is in love with. Not surprisingly, 76.5 percent of all of its traffic is mobile. Although it comes as an iPhone app, you can also access it via a mobile browser. The most popular device accessing it that way is not the iPhone (since most people use the app), but rather the Blackberry (9.9%), followed by HTC’s G1 Android phone (9.6%), followed by two more Blackberry models (8.9% and 7.4%), and then the iPhone (7.3%), and then another Blackberry (7.1%). Guess which platform FourSquare is going to develop an app for next? Yup, the Blackberry.

- EGolfGroup and Innovative Business Golf Solutions join forces to launch the Business Golf Country Club – Nice to see Scot getting this social network of his going quite well from what I read and hear. Also now they have the golf heaven connection, which I understand is anywhere from Palm Springs, CA – Sedona, AZ.

“The bond that links golf and business is indisputable,” says Bisbee. “On any given day thousands of executives take to the fairways because they have heard golf is good for business, only to discover the process for success is as difficult to master as basic golf technique.”

Duke, author of How to play business golf, founded his company after researching and playing business golf in different business environments only to realize the vast majority of golfers who attempt to use golf as a business tool fail to grasp the precise parallels.

“Like a private country club, the BGCC ensures an exclusive, safe and absolutely spam-free Internet environment for golf-related business and networking,” says Duke. “We afford our members the tools to post messages, communicate freely and exchange information with fellow BGCC members.”

The Business Golf Country Club makes every effort to screen out applicants who have no interest in golf or golfers. Spamming is not tolerated, nor posting any information for the soul purpose of selling products or services.

Read the entire BGCC press release.

Technically Speaking, Full Disclosure time: I am working part time for PercentMobile in the capacity of Community Manager. Scot Duke and I have been friends for a few years now and we have done podcasts and other ventures in the past. Follow me on twitter to keep up with everything!

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It’s that time of the year here in the #STL that usually wouldn’t be a problem, but this year due to some unforeseen circumstances, didn’t hire a yard crew. Now that spring is fully here, and some other unforeseen events, looks like it will only be for a short time anyways.

As many of you have read, I took the job out in Los Angeles with ShopitMedia as their Director of Publisher Management as announced here.

Some of you may be scratching their heads as you may have also seen this earlier post on RWW about another position I recently took with Bit.ly in a consulting role as their Community Manager.

No confusion. The Bit.ly gig was only a part time opportunity which I’m still doing at least for the current time being. The ShopitMedia gig is full time. Also, note that Shopit is the main company. Lot’s of interesting stuff they offer, so you may want to check that out if you aren’t looking for traditional banner advertising.

And what about the siliconANGLE blog? Oh yeah, I’m still doing that also! Just not as much as I use too, but I contributed an article there this week. I also participated in several different threads over there, as that is what we want to see – other people’s angles via the commenting! Also – We still need more regular contributors to sign up! We already have had many new names show up in the past week, but we can always use other angles!

Technically Speaking, you have been updated, and now some yard work awaits me!

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While I had a very successful trip to Los Angeles, of course I am a bit behind and just finally getting around to catching up on my RSS feeds. I found this video below that is just a pure LOL / ROFL video. Great way to break up a rather busy morning. Of course, found where else? On the blog that never sleeps!

Technically Speaking, the trip to LA did in fact land me a new full time gig as – Director of Publisher Management at Shopit.com.

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Another great find on the blog that never sleeps.

Technically Speaking, if you remember watching the Monkees in first run on television – you’re old! Even if you watched them in first or second re-run, you might be a bit up there!

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