Soldiers at attention: awright Twitter conscript, you’ve probably heard that Twitter has finally enabled a feature it calls “Retweet”. Well, after years of hacking together manual ReTweets – cutting and pasting, editing, shortening, and workarounds by Twitter partner applications like TweetDeck, you’d think this would be cause for great rejoicing among the weary soldiers of [...]

This is a message from one geek to another. I was raised on computers as a teenager in the mid 80′s, and have been on the Internet since before browser technology made it easy for everyone in the 90′s, the question seems pretty straightforward: “what is a browser?” But in April, when Google staffers from [...]

An open break-up letter to the Intel brand. Dearest Intel, This is hard. We had such a good thing going once, and in a lot of ways, I still love you. But, well, things have changed. You’ve changed. And I’m afraid you just don’t understand  why… [sniff] …I no longer want you inside. [sound of sobbing] [...]

My family and I walk by this tiny church on our way to the grocery store all the time. And while I’d always noticed the odd architecture of the place, it was only recently that I took a second look and was struck by the name. Big promise + tiny package = big let-down Now [...]

Yesterday, I blogged about the Interbrand 2009 list of 100 Best Global Brands and how it showed that Google was getting big, and I mean silly-big, fast. I mused about how this might impact their ability to deliver on their internal motto: “

Ten days ago, I wrote  10 days to Interbrand top 100 brands & 10 reasons to care. Well Friday (three days earlier than adverstised), the results came in. And if you have time, you can read full results and commentary at two sites: 1) Interbrand and 2) Business Week. But I’ll warn you, it’s a lot of [...]