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There are some products that, if they actually work as advertised, offer so much promise. You smile just thinking about the possibilities, the endless happiness they could provide.

Knowing that if I put my free swag down anywhere someone else would snatch it up like a crack fiend confronted with a stray dime bag, I got depressed just thinking about babysitting a big cumbersome box all night.

Hockey, fence jumping and river swimming, watermelon eating and math are core events at the stereotype olympics

Learning English for Job Seekers…

Video: I interviewed David Pogue in our NYC studio a few weeks ago. Of more interest was what happened once the interview was over. Knowing that he plays the piano, I surprised him with an 88 key Alesis QS8 keyboard. He had about 7 minutes before he had to leave to catch a matinee broadway show, but in under 7 minutes, we switched the set to a green screen background, put the keyboard in place, did a quick audio check, and in one take he nailed a Weird Al rendition of the Beatles When I’m 64.

Article: As we move towards a world of managed services, software-as-a-service, utility computing, doggie walkers and other outsourced services that make our lives a little easier and cheaper, I thought I would take a minute, just a moment, to reflect on the horrible downside of putting complete control of your business “uptime” in someone else’s hands.

Commentary: In news that doesn’t really have anything to do with anything we cover but is just kind of interesting, flour becomes the new oil.

We produced an in-studio interview between Bob Margolis, Community Content Manager of Reuters AdvicePoint, and Eric Janszen, Founder and President of iTulip.com. Given how much clout bloggers have in the industries they cover, and their ability to spread truth and rumors as they break news, what kind of self-regulation does Eric put on himself to ensure the accuracy of his commentary.

Article: In part one of what will become a recurring rant, I’m going to call out, one by one, all the companies that do online video advertising wrong.

Video: The trend is to empower B2B professionals to harvest value from their core professional relationships as well as to pull in their more multidimensional selves from social media online portals to help relationships become deeper more quickly and more effectively. The next generation of applications is likely to start mining social media content more effectively to provide alerts, trends, behaviors and other key indicators that can effect both relationships and transactions.