Despite the all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the tech community about how closed or limited the iPad is, it is going to sell simply because its users don’t care whether or not the thing is open or closed or “made of kumquats … so long as they can Tweet and Facebook with ease, they’re set.
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What Record Sales of the Amazon Kindle Means to Your Church Website
Yesterday , I was attracted by the Wired Magazine Gadget Labs headline “Amazon: Kindle Books Outsold Real Books This Christmas.” According to a release cited in the article:
“[the] Kindle has become the most gifted item in Amazon’s history …
… On Christmas Day customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books.”
Now unlike my good friend Vincent [...]
Don’t get BOSS’d around by your 3rd party API
As the dust settles from last week’s “Micro-Hoo!” partnership announcement, developers around the globe are beginning beg the question “what about my needs?”
While Twitter fiddled, their users burned – lessons learned
Twitter, in fiddling around with their @ replies notification setting, created a firestorm of outrage among the known twitterverse manifesting itself into to hash mark campaigns entitled ‘#fixreplies’ and ‘#twitterfail’ respectively.
The real reason Twitter beat the snot out of Pownce
Twitter gives our mundane lives meaning, that’s why it beat the snot out of a more ‘feature-rich’ Pownce.
To prove my point, let’s rewind about a year and a half ago to Tamar Weinberg’s comparison entitled ‘Twitter vs. Pownce: Who Pwns?‘ Dutifully she does what many of us do while shopping for software, cars, and food [...]
5 things more things about Christian spam email bombing runs
Ever get that annoying email from a church, friend, and/or family member who ‘accidentally’ sent a rant to everyone in their address book and/or a group-related email directory? Here’s how I respond to one such instance of a Christian SPAM email bombing run. Feel free to copy or link them to it my post to educate them on why this is such a poor practice of netiquette.
How cloud computing and Azure relates to your church website
Last week, while attending the MS PDC 2008, Ray Ozzie got all jumbo-tron’d at me about Azure and cloud computing. Here’s what it means to you and your church computing operations – now that I’ve had a bit more than a week to catch up on work and think it all through.
First, I suspect some [...]
5 Things Churches and Charities can learn from Google
So how did Google become a verb? Glad you asked … it did so by building an organization around intelligent people who understood how to grow the corporate needs around what the customer wanted. Put in more “Christian” terms, it’s about satisfying one’s self by first serving others.
SUMO Paint – a cool, free online tool to replace that crufty MS Pain’
Online office suites are great, usually missing only one or two applications I need to enhance a presentation and/or document. That missing link sometimes being a paint or paintbrush tool such as Photoshop, Photo Impact and/or MS Paint. That’s okay because there is an emerging set of Software as a Service applications that are online, [...]
How to use Google Moderator to crowdsource your questions (almost)
Crowdsourcing describes the act of outsourcing a task to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. Moderator is a new tool from Google that facilitates this practice by posing your question to the entirety a select portion of the Internet … almost.
What do I mean by almost? Glad [...]
5 things we can learn from the Twitter UI do-over
Now that the new Twitter user interface (UI) has had a few days to shake itself out, here are 5 things I think the webmasters of church and charity websites might learn from Twitter’s simple, yet effective changes:
Pastors and Lay Persons and BlackBerrys, Oh My!
With the debut of the now consolidated Google Mobile Apps for BlackBerry also arrives yet another reason why your church and/or charity should consider moving off the desktop and onto the web space. So what has this got to do with running your church and/or charity website? Glad you asked …
