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For those of you that have just found me via Twitter or Facebook, I wanted to let you know what my life is like (and ever evolving).  I am currently in New York working on a couple of projects and I have been checking how things are going for NY’s Fashion Week.  I have been doing a lot of travel for work in the past year.

An opportunity came up where I could no longer be a part-time editor and wri...

San Francisco fashion takes center stage on Saturday night, April 26^th with the third annual Discarded to Divine 2008 Fashion Show and Auction being held at the Academy of Art University at their Brannan Street campus. The Saint Vincent De Paul Society of San Francisco will show roughly one hundred new designs from local fashion designers from San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. The m...

It has been some time since I have been writing for my own blog. I have really tried to make great strides to put in time for a cause that I know needs to be changed immediately. My latest endeavor has been working with the Saint Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco and creating an online marketing plan (and implementation) from scratch for their gala fashion event. They have utilized this...

It’s amazing how Facebook has shot up at an astounding rate (Check out the numbers from Facebook Lead Engineer Lucas Nealon, from last month’s Geek Sessions at the SF City Club). It is also way greater than any phenomena that I have witnessed in my thirty plus years of living. Although LinkedIn started much earlier than Facebook , its beginnings are primarily focused as a way for professionals o...

Having been away from the Bay Area and the parties that I normally attend for Bubblicious, I’ve been speaking with non-English speakers. I realized that their reach into the United States is not as vast as it could be. Their meta tags and keywords focus on their local language. But, a tremendous benefit would be if Google could translate their content automatically into English.

The obvious bia...

My dear friend, SestinaVerde (who also is a grad school colleague from NYU), has had her blog for more than one year. It focuses on ‘Convenient, personally satisfying and eco-friendly tips for reducing clutter’. She was definitely an inspiration for me taking the plunge into blogging.

I also went to see Ms. Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post on Thursday night in San Francisco’s Herbst The...

I was helping my niece in the sixth grade on her math homework. I was surprised to see her looking at samples and populations at such an early age; criteria that I had to understand thoroughly well for my master’s thesis. To say that life is full of information and knowledge is obvious and trivial. I have learned in the last few years that as technology has evolved, it has taken people to reali...

When I worked on a project at Solutions Inc. based out of New York City, I worked on an enterprise level deployment of Exchange servers and other redundancy services on the backend. I wrote concise technical emails concerning the timeline of the project, specifications, and when systems would be affected. An email cascade effect ensued from board officers, secretaries, and other non-technical pe...

It has been a long time since I’ve written much and part of the reason is that there are so many wonderful people that I have met that I needed to go to my South Florida retreat to put things into perspective. In doing so, I have realized the true importance of what the Internet has on marketing not just for a business, but for an individual as well. For those individuals or businesses that do ...

I had a brief discussion with Aaron Peckham, Founder of Urban Dictionary. We both had realized that his site is the vehicle for the evolution of the English language. The languages that do not change die (for example, Latin is a dead language that no one outside of the Vatican speaks); but what came of it was Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese to name a few.

However, there are countries tha...

For years, I have heard that outsourcing has hurt the economy.  However, the opportunities that come with it are numerous. The opportunities that have come from globalization occur from fiscal issues to more efficient methods and processes in an enterprise organization.  But now, small businesses have begun to not only flourish but embrace the outsource culture because it enables them to perform w...

Social media is a digitized cousin of the traditional word of mouth advertising phenomena. It is with word of mouth that you actually get the experience of an actual customer to another potential customer. Having delved into social media for the last year (that and learning from some of the best social media gurus), I have realized that what they are doing is recreating a new product. In actu...

I am amazed at how fast Russians have embraced the ideals of capitalism. In doing so, they have revived horse racing at Moscow’s hippodrome for the annual Monte-Carlo radio grand-prix horse race. Strict dress codes were enforced such that men are required to wear suits and women are required to wear dresses. This report was highlighted in Russia Today’s entertainment programming.

For women in pa...

I was honored to meet the ladies from ‘Lucy & Lily’ at yesterday’s event sponsored by The Financial Women’s Association of San Francisco. It was held in Palo Alto this month. Being one of the few men in the room made me realize that all these ladies representing ‘L & L’ meant business when it came to women’s pants.Each table had a sample of the fabrics that they carry along with a form to fill o...

I applaud the Cayman National Cultural Foundation (CNCF) for their insight to help out local entrepreneurs in the fashion industry. This is very encouraging to see because it shows that business needs the other creative half; A Yin and Yang of sorts.

With that said, I want to say that if cities want to promote their gems of talent, (i.e. their artists), they need to combine them with smart entrep...

Earlier this week, Liz Claiborne announced that their Q1 earnings dropped 65% from the prior year in spite of taking huge steps to wow consumers by opening specialty stores to showcase new labels such as Juicy Couture. This goes to show that although new labels that set out to target customers need more than a new marketing campaign to make the sales.Jones Apparel Group and VF Corporation are ex...

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Ever since the tag cloud became part of the UI existence, I’ve been fascinated with the visual representation of ideas via dynamic word interfaces. I just like words.

With Wordle.net you can create interesting word visualizations from a few simple inputs.

Input options include:
1. Entering a group of words that you hand pick
2. Entering an ATOM or RSS URL
3. Providing your Delicious.com username...

We interweave every day, application to application, to web page, etc. Yet we don’t just VISIT something, we DO something, we have intent, purpose, machinations even.

We can track certain aspects of this weaving, we can try to label that tracking as “attention”, but it’s not really. Attention involves more than the process of weaving our lives together, we have a mind with synapses that form on n...

• getting inundated with AdTech party invites. Adteractive is back, hosting their party with Playboy models. Not sure what to think of that. #

• Windows XP Professional on MacBook Pro http://skitch.com/t/bua #
• @krynsky nope @atariboy found it first, but I Skitch tweeted it first. Evernote + Skitch rocks my world. http://skitch.com/t/bwx #
• DM Confidential now has so many ads in newsletter it takes longer than a webpage on a 56k modem to load the email. get real guys. #
• I’m giving away some Evernote invites for Skitch users. D me your email and Skitch account name if you want in. #

• @kimbui problem rectified #
• if you want to talk re: Skitch and I don’t follow you, please let me know. #
• ooooooooooooo new Twitter toys! yeah! #
• hearing the helicopters overhead pacing the Olympic torch run in SF #
• First look at Adobe Media Player - Application Install http://skitch.com/t/bud #
• @DannySullivan and @CShel at WMW Pubcon Vegas 2007 http://skitch.com/t/buf #
• Language Memes - TweetVolume : Fail | FTW | Jumped the Shark http://skitch.com/t/bug #
• @ChrisSaad Skitch.com notifies me when someone comments on my pics. I saw your note Not sure I agree with you tho, jury’s still out… #
• Hey Publishers, what do you think of https://pubaccess.advertising.com/ ? Will you be testing it with your traffic? #
• so far am completely unable to register with Platform-A PubAccess. Signup form failed in two ways, on 3 different browsers. Very frustrating #
• @waynesutton Twitter as OpenID provider sounds like a good idea. #
• @lisariolo Hi Lisa! Yes I’ll be at AdTech Sf and at Web 2.0 also. I’m hunting for some solutions. You going? Meet for coffee with Celine? #
• working at home I find Twitter is just like talking over a cube wall. ‘cept with the entire world listening. including my boss. #

Today I was reviewing my Google Blog Alerts and spotted a posting that surprised me. I was surprised because the post obviously may have an impact on the person who posted it because it contains some sensitive information that could have negative ramifications if it were made public.

I was curious, so I clicked to visit the Live Journal page that Google had obviously ...

Be thankful that I’ve not been vociferous on this site…

I try to maintain a high quality here, adding quality ideas as they arrive. I don’t always get as much time to write as I’d like, but as work is subsuming my attention these days I thought I’d post an experiment here. This image was loaded, then Twittered recently. It was sent using an experimental process that we’re developing.

I will post here more often.

I will not save my best observations for Twitter, but I may begin them there and expand on the subject here.

I will go outside and breathe fresh air more often.

I will visit 2-3 new countries in 2008. I will experience these countries as the local culture does as much as possible.

I will organize my RSS feeds for speed and breadth of information access.

I will capture ...