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I've always recognized the importance of online reputation.One of the key things that has driven the rise of Paypal and Ebay, Amazon and others has been their "trust" factors.Having a way to prove users are who they say they are is nothing new, Op...

Google-Bad-Screen, originally uploaded by DJ_Riel. I can't help it, I get a secret pleasure when Google Screws up. So ... may I share this moment with you all. I'm using the (google) Chrome web browser I go to the address for adsense (goog...

Hyper Local Social Originally uploaded by DJ_Riel We went off to New York City recently to promote the LIVEIN websites to the digital elite in the real estate business. We had these shirts printed up so that when we were at the event, the ...

This is a new mobile video blogging app I'm playing with.

Signage has made a lot of advances in the last couple of decades, moving from simple sign boards, to new weather proof materials and more lately the move to digital sign boards.Being able to remotely update the signage on billboards is an importan...

 This is a little video blogging lesson that shows you how I use my N96 to create video blog posts.

Just wanted to try out this new screencast software that I found called ScreenToaster.I use JING a lot, but I always like to keep up to date on the new contenders.This one seems pretty smooth - Java based, web interface, even noticed an APICapture...

Business Catalyst was recently acquired by Adobe.OK, it was over the summer, but none the less, it's pretty fresh.I'm particularly interested in that fact, as I've seen them and their "brown" or whatever the retail platform was, as a real model of...

This will piss off garmin and tom tom ... in fact, if you check their stock prices, you'll see their nose diving as we speak. Yahoo! FinanceQuote for GRMN Have a look at this game changer, turn by turn navigation.So far, only on Android phone, bu...

Today Windows launches it's latest operating system salvoWindows 7I think Shelly Palmer said it best in this interview.And since I'm still on XP, I agree ... that's a day in my life that I won't get back.

Is it just me, or does this seem a little weird to you?Marge Simpson is going to be posing nude (almost) in Playboy.Not sure the blue haired mom is going to attract the 20 something crowed that they're hopping for.Interesting approach, we'll see h...

Saw an interesting article on the Wordpress site about hack's in themes.The deal is that many 3rd party websites are providing free Wordpress themes with encoded script slipped in - some even going as far as to claim that decoding the gibberish co...

How many of us buy things from Door to Door salesmen?I can't remember the last time I even saw a door to door sales man.This guy is inspiring, he's truely understood the path that he has to take.  It's not about the soap, it's about you and u...

?What would we do without skype?In an interesting development, JoltID the owners of the underlying P2P technology that drives Skype (the same guys that brought you Kazzaa as well as Jolt TV) have brought suit on Ebay, (who purchased skype for $2.6...

I can't tell you the number of times that it frustrates me that Amazon doesn't spend the time to cultivate the Canadian Market.I mean ... Ya, I get the numbers / economics thing.But haven't we consistently proven ourselves in the inventing technol...

?Microsoft has landed in hot water over it's use of custom XLM in word.Seems the judge felt that they were infringing and ordered them to stop selling word (?? wow)They'll appeal of courseSpokes man Kuts said:"We are disappointed by the court’s ...

?Always trying new things, these guys wanted me to verify the ownership of my blog ... with their widget (that's a good little link back tactic)Follow this blog                         &...

Check out this cool music seach and comment site, it's my new favorite site / appBlip.fm

This is a physical color wheel that gives you the web safe hexadecimal values for each color.Super handy for designers (or for talking to them about the color you're after for your text links).I got mine at the local art store, but here's their we...

I read "JoelOnSoftware.com" fairly regularly.Besides the fact that I'm a client of his (we use fogbugz in our development cycle) I find his writing pretty on topic.It's not highly technical and I guess since he's the CEO, he's talking about things...