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BookMooch and Prisons

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Web Tools

As you know from a previous posting, I have been using BookMooch to trade used books. This week I received a mooch from “Prison Book Program“.
A quick search directed me to the web site explaining this is a non-profit organization that gives books to prisoners. I had no idea this organization existed. BookMooch seems like [...]

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Outlining: What Google Docs is Missing

April 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Web Tools

As a user of a PC at work and a Mac at home, I am always on the lookout for applications that will allow me to get my work done using my Mac when I work at home. Eventually I would like to follow many others and switch to a Macbook Pro as my work [...]

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Bookmooch: Free Books from the Airport

April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · WEB 2.0, Web Tools

My wife and kids read at least twice as many books as I do per year, which makes our collective used book generation pretty significant. A few months ago I signed up for the Bookmooch service to give our used books away. I was surprised at how fast books where being mooched (requested) from my [...]

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Skydeck - Analytics for Mobile Conversations

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Analytics, Conversations, WEB 2.0, Web Tools

I am glad I made it into the first 500 people invited to use Skydeck. After reading the basics about it the night before I couldn’t wait to get into the Beta. As you know I am in sales and I use my Blackberry as my primary communication device. I don’t have an office phone, [...]

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Now That’s Service! – Yousendit Callback in 9 minutes

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Service, Web Tools

At 5:35pm tonight my phone rang with the area code of 408, Silicon Valley. Hum could it be mom? I don’t have any customers in that area code. I was still in my office in Santa Cruz, CA trying to figure out if I could track who downloaded a file using Yousendit’s Outlook plug-in. [...]

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