February 23, 2010
The Hidden Art and Culture of San Jose
So today while facilitating the Team San Jose Twitter page (@teamsanjose) and checking out the conversations focused around Cinequest I saw a post from @Astrogirl who happens to run Gallery AD mentioning a discount to Cinequest goers who bring in their ticket stubs to her gallery @AnnoDomini
This prompted me to visit this gallery on South First Street today and I have to say, I really missed the culture you can ...
February 22, 2010
Oceanic Airlines delays my writing
Lost was one of the many popular shows on television I didn’t want to watch. Not that I thought it would be bad, but mostly because I limit myself to how many shows I will follow to around four at a time. Even that number seems high to me.
However, my wife recently started watching the show from the beginning, courtesy of Netflix and after three weeks has caught up. During ...
February 12, 2010
A brief look at Google Buzz
So Google has finally decided to merge their mail service with user profile pages in a way that allows content to be fed in and named this Google Buzz.
I’ve probably over simplified it, but essentially you now have the option on your Google Profile of sharing information from your other websites with people you frequently email. This allows your Google Profile to work much like FriendFeed in that you can ...
February 10, 2010
Yelp Exploits
So I'm going to toot my own horn because I haven't had much time this past week to really come up with anything better that is finished yet, and at the same time it'll remind me to stay focused on my writing as I'd like to see if I can't keep getting myself into things on Yelp each month for the remainder of the year, or at least see how ...
February 6, 2010
Star Trek Online (STO) Review
Pre-game impressions
I had my doubts about this game last year when I first heard about it. I’m not really a huge Star Trek fan, though I did watch some Kirk episodes, a few Generations, a little bit of Deep Space 9, but I stopped with Voyager and never even looked at Enterprise. While I do prefer the lore of Star Wars to Star Trek, I am a bit of a ...
February 1, 2010
Outlets your Business should be using
SM for Business
Whether you’ve mastered your social media outlets and are conversing with thousands or not interested in checking out Facebook and Twitter just yet, you’ll want to take a look at these three sites.
More importantly, you’ll want to make sure your customers are looking at these sites:
Yelp.com
Yelp is currently the most popular online review site, from restaurants, to convention center facilities and everything else. If a business or facility ...