Peter's Beard

  • Too Big to Fail

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    I’m reading a Wall Street Journal right now about AIG, the insurance company that’s been one of, if not the, largest recipients of the government bailout. I think going forward we should have a mergers and acquisitions law that says two companies cannot combine if a failure of the combined company at some point in the future would be too catastrophic to our economy.

  • Video as a Marketing Tool

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    We work with both the NYPD & FDNY to produce interesting video stories around their respective organizations and to then push those videos out through various distribution channels to make sure lots of people within their target audiences watch the video.

  • Blagojevich vs. Schumer

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    Don’t most politicians demand money in return for action? If so, what’s so different between Chuck Schumer, champion of Wall Street interests, and Rod Blagojevich??

  • Bubble Bath

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    I couldn’t resist. This is by far one of my favorite pictures of my nephews. Pretty much every picture of them is this epic.

  • Privatize the Gains, Socialize the Losses

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    the joy of bailing others out…

  • Irony of a Bailout

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    The government, funded by “average Americans”, is bailing banks out that are trying to figure out how to axe more American jobs to send them overseas.

  • Social Media within the Enterprise

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    Video: Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, talks about the tools that Intel is developing to connect employees with each other in a variety of ways.

  • Kevin Kelley on the Semantic Web

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    Video: It’s been 6,527 days, or almost 18 years, since Tim Berners-Lee made the first Web page. Where are we headed in the next 6,500 days of the web? Kevin Kelley of Wired Magazine lays out his vision for the future. Phase one of the Internet was sharing packets across computers. Phase two was linking pages and sharing links with others. What is the next phase?

  • Text Message Polling

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    Since I know at some point I’ll need this type of solution, I figure if I blog about it I can look it up later. Poll Everywhere is a text message polling solution that allows you to go to the Poll Everywhere web site, log in and create a poll.