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Interesting Video

Microsoft offers glimpse into future of productivity. The futuristic workspaces seemed a bit sterile and I felt some of the GUI was ambitious and a slightly impractical, but I have no doubt that the accessing and manipulation of information and data will continue to evolve at a rapid pace. Augmented reality glasses and contacts are…

Google – Barrel Roll

Type “do a barrel roll” into Google search. See what happens. Pretty unexpected and awesome.

Humorous Facebook Posts

Thought I would inject a bit of levity in today’s blog post. A friend of mine posted this on (where else?) Facebook this morning: Enjoy! Some of them so ridiculous, that it makes one wonder if they are perhaps fake. Good for a laugh anyhow.

Bounce Rates – An Excellent Article

Found an excellent article on Bounce Rates this morning: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/bounce-rate/ Benchmarks Bounce Rates into different page/website types.

Twitter: When Used In Bad Taste

The execution will be Twittered, apparently. Full Story Here. Regardless if one thinks this was done in poor taste or not (I think it was), its seems people still have not grasped the power of Twitter to potentially backfire and blow up in their faces when wielded incorrectly. That is the peril of a tool/toy…

Using Google Adwords To Find A Job…

Pretty good article here at the Huffington Post (be sure to watch the video.) The gist is, this man knowing that people do vanity searches on themselves in Google, created an ad asking them for a job. Genius!

10 Things Google Has Taught Us

An excellent article I found this morning on Google: http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/22/technology/auletta_maxims.fortune/index.htm Really frames both what the company has done right and how they did it. Now I don’t agree with everything Google does – but overall, their track-record speaks for itself.