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How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web, Part 2
7 Comments Published November 6th, 2008 in Blogging, Flickr, Internet, Social Media, Tech, Twitter, Web 2.0 101, Web2.0How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web, Part 2
We’ve talked about how getting your own domain name can give you immediate exposure on the Web in my previous article, for my friend who wants to use the Internet to find a job. It’s a first step, that provides the virtual equivalent of an online [...]
How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web
1 Comment Published October 29th, 2008 in Internet, Social Media, Tech, Web 2.0 101, Web2.0 How to Raise Your Visibility on the Web
Recently, a friend of mine who is doing a job search asked me:
Bill… Petro… dot com, how did you come to get a .com after your name, and more importantly, how could potential employers find me more easily on the InterWeb?
And well he might ask. Aside from [...]
VMworld 2008: Day 2 Review – Virtually Anything is Possible
2 Comments Published September 17th, 2008 in Blogging, EMC, Social Media, Twitter, VMworld, Web2.0VMWORLD 2008: DAY 2 REVIEW – VIRTUALLY ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE
VMworld is not just a trade show about virtualization, it uses virtual technologies and Web 2.0 technologies in a way I’ve never seen before. Here’s an example:
Blogging:
Not only is blogging encouraged, but it is honored. There is a special set of tables in the keynote auditorium [...]
VMworld 2008: Day 1 Keynote
2 Comments Published September 16th, 2008 in Cloud computing, EMC, Internet, Tech, VMworld, Web2.0VMWORLD 2008: DAY 1 KEYNOTE
Following yesterday’s opening event, both the Technology Exchange and Partner Day, the conference started in earnest today with a keynote by Paul Maritz, VMware President and CEO.
Paul is quite an articulate speaker, sounding both like a savvy businessman and an erudite professor. For many, his accent is difficult to place, is [...]
iPhone 3G Launch: a Tale of Two Cities and Two Vendors
1 Comment Published September 2nd, 2008 in Apple, Gadgets, Web2.0, iPhoneiPHONE 3G LAUNCH: A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND TWO VENDORS
Remember the old Far Side cartoon that shows a couple thinking about each other — with the commentary “Same planet, two different worlds”? That was the sense of the first day the iPhone 3G went on sale in the US.
It seemed that the two partners [...]
I love movies, and I love the Academy Awards show. I’ve watched it each year for decades, but I did something this last Sunday that I’ve never done before. I tracked comments on the show via Twitter. There were about a thousand “tweets” on subjects related to what people were wearing, what jokes worked or [...]
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