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Can Klout and Quora really tell us anything about influence?

My Klout profile has a list of people who influence me. It includes some friends and also some recognized “influencers” like Brian Solis and Tim O’Reilly. Avinash Kaushik is also in the list. If you don’t know Avinash he published Web Analytics 2.0, works for Google as their Analytics Evangelist and publishes a pretty popular [...]

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Market what’s important to your customers, not yourself.

Last week as I was driving to work I reached a usual intersection where I make a left turn. The light turned green and I gunned it to make it, but something caught my eye as I veered round the corner . On the opposite side of the road I saw a sign displayed at [...]

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Privacy settings for Facebook places. Where are you?

I may be missing something here but it seems to me like Facebook places is ignoring my privacy settings. I have my settings explicitly set so that only one person can see where I check in. Yet when I checked in today I received a comment on my check in from a completely different person. [...]

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Goodbye clients, hello focus.

I’ve been freelancing for years outside my normal work hours. I enjoy it as it can break the monotony of “work”, provide a little extra cash and help build contacts. For about a year or so I’ve been trying to scale back, but as the offers come in I keep telling myself that it’s just [...]

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59 Days of Code wrap-up

It’s the day after 59DaysOfCode and I’m still exhausted. It was a fantastic event and drew a great crowd. Travis Sheridan and Irma Olguin pulled off an amazing feat to showcase the local talent from the Fresno region. I didn’t get an opportunity to take the time to see all the products and applications that [...]

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What happens when something goes wrong?

We’ve all been there, we’re completing an online form when kaboom! something goes wrong, there’s a cryptic message on the screen and it doesn’t look like the site you’ve just been on. Some users instinctively think they’ve done something wrong, that they’ve broken the web site. It takes real skill to break a web site, [...]

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