Dare has a great overview of the SimpleDB services. Although there are some downsides to the service it certainly was the next logical step for Amazon in this space. I can't help but wonder where MSFT is in this game. That and if Penton will have ...read more

I noticed a ?new? feature on facebook today when I added two facebook newbs as friends today. Although I've seen research presented that says it doesn't matter if someone is welcomed as to whether or not they will come back I'd like to think ...read more

Still funny. Penny Arcade! - Facebookery ...read more

Good products tend to pay attention to the little details. Not all the details, but enough to make you notice. Lately I've noticed that the list of supporters or fans or whatever you want to call them on Facebook pages seems to always show a few people ...read more

Since I already had one e-bay post today... Ebay used to be held up as the golden standard for online reputation engines. Because of thier system you believed that buyers could trust sellers and vice versa. Ebay recently decided to make the reputation ...read more

Sure, it's a petty thing, but I've been Mr Gretchen for a long time in some circles. I'd like to prevent that from happening in the Twitter-Verse. You can help prevent this by heading my shameless call to follow me on twitter via http://twitter ...read more

I don't know what we'll do when we have over 6 people per virtual team, but I have to agree with Dave. I've really enjoyed seeing the faces of the people I work with virtually. If you work with remote teams I highly recommend checking out ...read more

I probably just noticed something that's been going on for a while. I thought I'd check out the Seattle group on FB. It's a 200k audience being fed daily spam like this: Facebook needs to find a way to deal with this problem because ...read more

This one comes from ebay. Hold a regular town hall, ask people to submit and vote on questions, use the town hall to reply live. ...read more

If you tune into This Week in C9 you may have caught some stumbling over my name. It starts around the 7:30 mark. But the best part is hearing Gretchen referred to as "Josh Ledgard's wife." I know this won't make much sense to many of ...read more

It's been well over a year since I joined Telligent as a Remote employee. I wasn't sure I'd last six months working outside of the main office. I'm sure these aren't the only tips, but they are the ones that work for me. Maybe some ...read more

I don't usually go out and create a 1 per post "mindless link", but I tend to agree completely with what Dare said in this post and it wouldn't have been long before I wrote up something similar... so I'll just let Dare say it for ...read more

On the Freakonomics blog they link to a comparison between recent YouTube and MetaFilter user commentary. The question is asked if $5 can improve the quality of the comments. You can guess what this looks like, but its worth checking out the difference ...read more