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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

October 6, 2011

in Application Development,Marketing,Media,Sports,Technology

I’ve owned and used Apple’s products for a very long time. In my last year of college, I built my first computer, an Apple II+ clone – sourcing and soldering all the individual components, circuit board, cabinet, keyboard, and it ran on Apple’s OS. That of course, endeared me to Apple early on. Of course, [...]

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Set Up Events signs up!

July 13, 2011

in Marketing,Media,Sports,Technology

This morning we officially announced that fortyninegroup is the new Sponsorship Sales and Strategic Marketing provider for Set Up Events. Set Up Events was founded in 1994 by Bill and Lynda Scott. Bill has an extensive history in endurance sports and events. In the early ’80s, he worked at Southland Corporation, then owners of the [...]

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Netflix unlimited streaming – $7.99/month – hello music labels???

December 10, 2010

in Marketing,Media,Technology

I had one of those “convergence of thoughts” reminders the other day. In the content and tech business sectors it has recently been impossible to go a day without a story on Netflix – further evidence this morning – a WSJ story on Netflix being added to the S&P 500 (kicking out the NYTimes and [...]

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Is Facebook AOL 2.0?

December 6, 2010

in Marketing,Media,Technology

I’m by no means alone in my perception that Facebook’s mission is to become the Internet. I’m a proponent of open standards, open software, open platforms and an open internet, the past several months have made me feel that the online world is coalescing around two internets – Facebook’s version of the internet and THE [...]

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Goodbye S-Works, Hello P4

November 19, 2010

in Marketing,Sports,Technology

My much-beloved 2008 Specialized S-Works finally packed it in about 10 days before Ironman Florida. Seen here, during an IM race in 2008, the bike was extremely fast and I continued to get faster with it over the 2.5 years of riding it. But 10,000 miles and the extreme South Florida conditions of heat, salt [...]

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Beatles For Sale

November 16, 2010

in Marketing,Media,Technology

The availability of Beatles tracks and albums in iTunes is, understatedly, long overdue. The standoff and speculation has been documented endlessly elsewhere, as have the specific issues that have existed between Apple Computer (now Apple Inc. and Apple Corp. I’ll add a couple of points to the stories. Back in the early days of digital [...]

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School and Faith – BuyWidget pops 2 new sites

November 10, 2010

in Application Development,Marketing,Media

BuyWidget, the social commerce network, launched 2 brand extension sites today. You can read about them in this release. SchoolBuyWidget is focused on the educational market, allowing schools to place a BuyWidget on their sites and monetize content sales. Perfect for motivational school songs and anthems, pep rally music, drama or glee club performances etc. Similarly, [...]

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LINCHPIN

November 9, 2010

in Marketing,Technology

I finished Seth Godin’s book LINCHPIN yesterday on a flight back to Miami from NYC. Without taking away from Seth’s premise, LINCHPIN extolls the merits of the creation of art as a core element of your life’s pursuit. Art, doesn’t mean sculpting, painting, while that is by virtue “art”(or can be), but as it pertains [...]

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Ironman stumbles…

October 29, 2010

in Application Development,Marketing,Media,Sports,Technology

Interesting times for the World Triathlon Corporation, owners of the Ironman brand. As 1) a repeat Ironman competitor myself, at both full (140.6) and 70.3 distances, 2) a professional who works with brands everyday and 3) respects the Ironman brand… although I don’t have it tattooed on me… it’s intriguing to watch the stumbles made [...]

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Looking back – looking ahead

July 2, 2010

in Application Development,Marketing,Media,Sports,Technology

Looking back I seldom look back on a week, preferring to always look ahead to the next week. Even rarer are the occasions when I would allow the occurrences to coalesce into a posting, but in the technology world, a lot has happened – one event was substantial in scale, others… smaller but portending the [...]

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