Google’s Building a Boat!
I just read an interesting post from the NY Times Freakonomics blog about Goggles potential plans to set some of their data centers afloat. I’ve read discussions about floating data centers before, just not related to Google.
Carsonified Giveaway
The folks over at Carsonified are holding a contest where the prize is free admission to ALL of their 2009 events. All you have to is write a blog post, get people to leave comments and you will entered for the drawing. If interested, check out the post for more details.
New Microsoft Add
I saw the new Microsoft TV add this morning with Jerry Seinfield and I think it’s great. Funny and entertaining yes, but I’m not really all that sure what it’s trying to sell or explain.
Skills Every IT Person Needs
My dad sent me a link to a great article this morning called 30 Skills Every IT Person Needs published by CIO. It’s got some good ones on there like points 5, 10 and 15. Check it out and see how your skills compare.
Blog Action Day 2008
For those of you that haven’t heard of Blog Action Day yet, it’s one single day out of the year where blog owners are asked to come together and all write about a single issue. I think this is an awesome idea and I’m definitely going to see what I can do to help. This years issue is poverty. Check out the promotional video below and get involved! Blog Action Day 2008 Poverty from Blog Action Day on Vimeo.
Gary Vaynerchuk
I had never heard of Gary Vaynerchuk until I saw him on Chris Pirllo’s web site one day. After I found out how to spell his name I did a little research and subscribed to his blog. He posted a great short video today about a mantra he uses for success.
Surprise Your Customers
I have a subscription to National Geographic Adventure magazine, the photos in it kick ass and I also enjoy dreaming of running off to the bizzare destinations they write about. Anyway, about a month ago I came across a brightly colored full page add for a web site called Zappos. After visiting the site and looking around a little I determined that it was just another online shoe store and moved on.
Need a MacBook??
Smashing Magazine announced a cool guest author contest yesterday. The deal is you can submit up to 3 articles for consideration. They will post articles they think are good and the best will win a new MacBook Air. Give it a shot… everyone has something to say!
Turn your RSS feed into an e-mail newsletter!
I had one of those duh moments this morning. Every once and a while I come across a web app that solves a problem or does something interesting and I can’t help but ask myself “why didn’t I think of that?”. The app I found this morning is called Nourish and it allows you to turn any RSS feed into an e-mail newsletter. In looking through their site it looks like the app was launched back in January (of ’08) and I think the concept is brilliant.
How 37Signals built buzz
The guys over at 37Signals posted an interesting article a few days ago about how their business transformed from a typical web design and development company to one that offers wildly poplar SaaS products. Check it out when you have some time.
Who is Chris Monnat?
Chris Monnat (aka mrtopher) is a web application developer and entrepreneur located in Alexandria, VA. This site is his island of information where he blogs about CodeIgniter, PHP programming, business topics, the Internet as a whole and other miscellaneous bits and bytes.
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