The impact of the first follower This starts out very silly and fun. By the time it was over, there were tears in my eyes. I hope that you can feel it, too. Here’s a great analysis of the first follower. I think the version of the video that I’ve posted has more raw emotional [...]
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The end of an era
By Lee on Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
I opened my Mindspring account in 1996. I was later than some, to the Internet party, though way ahead of most. (I was on Compuserve and Prodigy before Mindspring, but I was even a Usenet user back in the late 70′s and early 80′s.) But Earthlink blew it. They lost a customer of 15 years, [...]
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By Lee on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments
I know why Web 2.0 brings with it all the groovy spellings and made up words like Flickr, Friendster, and Facebook (and that’s just the F’s). It’s because the damned cybersquatters have already registered every decent English word and phrase you can imagine. There’s nothing left for the people who are actually trying to do [...]
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