The weekend is almost over and that means off to Studio N for the latest episode of The M Show.
Listen here: Direct link to file
You can also check out some new photos from Fenway Park, my sister hooked me up with Yanks/Sox tickets on Friday.
So it’s been a busy week. I had a wedding to go to on Monday (yes, different, I know, but it ended up at Finale, which is a wonderful thing), so I’ve been playing catch up ever since.
Important things for you:
This week’s Marketing Over Coffee podcast is up and I’m going to see if I can get a player to work right here:
I failed to include a link in the last post to Scott Monty, it’s because it was 1am and I was going to add in a link to one of his Sherlock sites and then never went back to it.
I’ve also got a partially written post from my discussions with The Smartest Man in the World (who just jumped from #9 up to #3 in Google! Go Saul!), but some of it ties into a super secret project that I am working on that will not roll out until June, so it may be a while on that. ’til then check out the funky cartoon thing he’s playing with, it’s very cool.
Gadget Alert!
The traffic function on this GPS looks incredible, I am in.
Imagine getting pinged when your best customers are a mile in and closing!
The latest Marketing Over Coffee has hit the stands, a bunch of interesting Google stuff this week and some chat about copywriting offers. You can listen for free over at the site with the best marketing podcast.
I’m just too tired to write anything today, the 5:30 am recording sessions will do that, but if you are a stats junkie, along with the latest show we’ve published the numbers for Marketing Over Coffee for you to check out.
Lots of emailing this week. Interesting stats but nothing exciting to write about…
Thanks to the hard work of Scott Monty of Crayon working with ooVoo, I was part of my ooVoo day, which makes me a “prominent blogger” according to the Wall Street Journal. Now all I need is a link…
You can also check out the St. Patrick’s Day edition of The M Show for some easy listening fun.
This week’s Marketing Over Coffee (the best marketing podcast) is up for your listening pleasure. Some interesting talk about Free, Branding, and making an ass out of yourself at corporate events.
Check out some of the photos from San Francisco and there’s finally a new M show out after a week off.
As part of the normal trade show routine I buy a monitor. It’s usually around $175 to rent one vs. $250 to buy one, so the first time we do a show in a town we buy a monitor and the local rep gets to use it for the rest of the year. We even do the same thing with some 40 inch monitors where we have bigger shows.
I hit the online fliers to see who’s got the best sales, this week it happened to be Office Max, although I chose a monitor based on the fact that it had internal speakers – which completely suck.
I’ve heard about Fry’s Electronics, but I had never been to one so I decided to swing over there just to see what they were about. The place is geek heaven. It’s about 4 times the Best Buy near my house and has the same stuff they carry plus a lot more components, toys, and other random stuff like pepper spray.
On top of that there’s a whole Raiders of the Lost Ark temple theme going on in the place. Worth a trip just to see, or if you need a $799 case for the next computer that you are going to build.
Burdened with a compulsion to measure technology I did a speed test today now that I finally got my new Palm Centro pimped out to serve as wireless modem. I’ve used PDANet on my Palm 600, but the new version takes advantage of the expanded service that the Centro uses:
The top two boxes are via cellular modem, the bottom two is the same box via FIOS. So the good news is that the Centro is about 20x faster than the Treo 600 was. Uploads are just more than 3 times faster. Not bad considering it’s for situations where there’s no wireless of any kind. Also interesting to note that it’s half as good as my connection at work (although we’ve upgraded and I think work is now about twice as fast).
If you don’t have FIOS and you want to make yourself cry, check out past speed tests. I’d also love to see your speed test results, you can check your speed here.