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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 2:02 PM

Microsoft Auto and Ford SYNC

One of the themes of last night's college championship football game (which, sadly, OSU lost, though not quite as badly as a year ago) during the commercials was the new SYNC technology available from Ford and Lincoln Mercury. I've been peripherally aware
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:10 PM

Lake Quincy Media Launches AdSignia

We just launched AdSignia , our new advertising management platform for online advertisers and publishers. Read the full AdSignia online advertising server press release for more details. We're still working out a few things and will have a better
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:17 PM

Lake Quincy AdSignia Announced

Lake Quincy Media , which I co-own, has announced initial availability of its new online promotion management software, AdSignia . Lake Quincy Media specializes in the promotion of products and services of interest to our network of dozens of Microsoft
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:50 PM

Windows Principles Editorial

An editorial piece of mine was published in a local paper Tuesday: Microsoft opens a window to entrepreneurs Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Sponsor
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:37 AM

Lake Quincy Media Site Facelift

Lake Quincy Media , the advertising network made up exclusively of .NET developer community web sites, has been undergoing a substantial redesign throughout the month of July. Well, after a lot of work, the new design was launched yesterday. The new design
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Monday, March 20, 2006 9:48 AM

Microsoft Atlas Contest

I only mentioned the Made In Express Contest a few minutes ago and now I see there is a contest for Microsoft Atlas , their new AJAX / Web 2.0 framework. You have a chance to win an XBOX 360 premium and Windows Mobile 5.0 smartphones! What is it? This
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Monday, March 20, 2006 9:40 AM

Made In Express Contest

Want $10,000? Microsoft is hosting a contest to promote its Express product set. Sign up at http://www.madeinexpresscontest.com/ You can also download flair to put on your blog if you're interested: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it!
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Monday, March 13, 2006 1:17 PM

KBAlertz TextPayMe Promotion for Charity

KBAlertz is giving away XBox 360s to two Arizona Children's centers and could use your help. Basically if you sign up for a TextPayMe account through their promotion page, you'll get $5 and they'll get 1/36 of an XBox 360. The promotion ends March 18th.
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Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:26 PM

Another Viral Marketing Buzz Campaign Almost Over

Ron McDaniel who is into Buzz Marketing posted about the TextPayMe marketing effort that I’m participating in. When I last checked, they’d given away 11 $300 XBox 360 systems (5 of which appear to be to the same CP from Washington). That works out to
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Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:49 PM

AxoSoft Social Marketing Experiment - OnTime BugTracker At 99 Percent Off

Axosoft is doing a social marketing experiment (blogs, Digg , etc.) where they're selling a $500 copy of their OnTime Small Team (5 users) bug tracker and project management tool for just $5 and donating the proceeds to the American Red Cross. The experiment
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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 2:03 PM

Deceptive Marketing

I've recently received a few emails from a component vendor announcing their new product, which includes this quote: And finally, the component developers have been eagerly awaiting for months… [productname will remain anonymous-ish] is the first-ever
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 2:55 PM

Google Optimization Tools and Permanent Redirects

A recent forum thread on AspAdvice.com dealt with this issue. It's far better to use 301 redirects than 302 redirects within your applications if the page in question is permanently at the new location. One example of this would be when handling site
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Friday, August 26, 2005 11:18 PM

Two Kinds of Writing

If you don't know me, just click here . If you do know me, you should read this interesting article (ok, blog entry) by Seth Godin , marketing guru, about why we are overly verbose when we're trying to get information across to strangers, but typically
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:24 PM

Tip For Employees - Don't Stop Looking

A few years ago, I worked for a consulting company for five years, which during that time (and somewhat still today) was quite a long time to remain with one company. It was a common occurrence for clients to offer me positions in their companies, but this practice was strongly frowned upon by my employer, who actively discouraged such recruiting. I never ended up accepting any such offers, but they did have the effect of keeping me aware of my marketability and of the existence of...
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Tuesday, June 07, 2005 8:12 PM

Seth Godin and Viral Marketing

Seth Godin ( Seth's blog ) has written several books on a term I believed he coined, 'viral marketing'. I was talking to some folks at TechEd this week about ways to generate buzz for their products, and two topics dominated my advice: blogs and viral
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