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October 2008
September 2008
- Daily Digest 10/01/2008
- Highlight Midwest - October 29th
- links for 2008-09-27
- Android is Awesome - Friday Video
- Content Delivery Networks - Demystified
- Daily Digest 09/19/2008
- Hack the Debate!
- Amazon Web Services Content Delivery Service
- Daily Digest 09/18/2008
- Google Android coming September 23
- Google to Acquire Valve for Android Market
- Daily Digest 09/17/2008
- Daily Digest 09/16/2008
- Seinfeld and Gates - Friday Video
- Google Ad Manager Available to the Masses
- Daily Digest 09/12/2008
- Daily Digest 09/11/2008
- Daily Digest 09/10/2008
- Daily Digest 09/09/2008
- Daily Digest 09/04/2008
- No Google Chrome for me
August 2008
- Daily Digest 08/30/2008
- Twittad Launched This Week - Monetizing Twitter
- Ubuiquity from Mozilla - Friday Video
- GTDInbox - Firefox Plugin
- Site Updates - Need Feedback
- Daily Digest (weekly)
- BarCamp Des Moines Tomorrow!
- Announcing the 2008 Iowa Web Awards
- Discussing Microsoft move to West Des Moines on local ABC news
- Microsoft Data Center in West Des Moines, IA
- Daily Digest 08/21/2008
- Daily Digest 08/20/2008
- Daily Digest 08/19/2008
- Daily Digest 08/16/2008
- Daily Digest 08/15/2008
- 6 Reasons Diigo is Better Than Delicious
- Daily Digest 08/14/2008
- Brand Hijack - Blogging
- TrustyPig - Social Brand Hijack
- TrustyPig steals web design from SmartyPig
- Another Cyberwar - Russia vs Georgia Online
- Des Moines Web Geeks Kickoff
- Twitter Deleted My Account
July 2008
- The New Business Lingo
- Social Median Launches Social News Network
- Daily Digest
- Success with WordPress eBook
- Daily Digest
- Des Moines Web Geeks
- Des Moines Co-Working Arrives
- Sarah Lacy Visiting Des Moines This Weekend
- Daily Digest
- Daily Digest
- Friday Video - Font Conference
- Daily Digest
- Daily Digest
- Daily Digest
- Daily Digest
- Daily Digest
- Daily Digest
- Daily Digest
- WordPress 2.6 Now Available
- Daily Digest
- AT&T FAIL
- If I treated my clients like AT&T, I would…
- Not Cool, AT&T… Not Cool!
- Daily Digest
- WordPress App for the iPhone
- Daily Digest
- Coworker Word-of-Mouth Strongly Influences Purchases
- Microsoft’s Faltering Strategic Relevance
- Daily Digest
- Site Updates
- Top 5 Social Media Applications
- Popular Blogs are Mainstream Media?
- Search Google Docs with Spotlight
- links for 2008-07-09
- The State of the Web - Summer 2008
- links for 2008-07-06
- links for 2008-07-05
- What The F**K Is Social Media?
- links for 2008-07-03
- links for 2008-07-02
- Microsoft Data Center Coming to Iowa
- Google Ad Manager Updates
- Google and the Analytics Industry - Ask Andy
- Wufoo - Customer Satisfaction
- links for 2008-07-01
- “Firm” Alternatives
June 2008
- Micro-Consulting - An A La Carte Consulting Model
- Corporate Website in Five Years
- Leonard Downie Jr. on Future of Newspapers
- links for 2008-06-28
- Google Launches MediaServer (?)
- Jeff Bezos Interview
- links for 2008-06-27
- Finding Time
- It’s Not Rocket Science
- links for 2008-06-26
- MagCloud - Publish your own Magazine
- links for 2008-06-25
- Sneak Peek at WordPress 2.6
- Tablefy Comparison Charts - Web Apps
- A Geek Changed the World
- links for 2008-06-24
- CDBurnerXP - Vista Apps
- Friday Video
- Five Reasons I would work for Yahoo!
- Live with Zane Safrit this morning
- links for 2008-06-18
- Firefox 3 Download Day
- Universal Remote - Cool iPhone App
- links for 2008-06-17
- links for 2008-06-15
- links for 2008-06-14
- IowaFlood.com 72 Hours Later
- links for 2008-06-13
- links for 2008-06-11
- The time has come - say goodbye to IE6
- “Half The Price” = Costs More
- links for 2008-06-10
- 3G iPhone - What’s Missing?
- links for 2008-06-06
- Friday Video
- links for 2008-06-05
- links for 2008-06-04
- links for 2008-06-03
- Need a Job? Move to Iowa!
- Addicted to Work
May 2008
- links for 2008-05-31
- Hack Everything
- links for 2008-05-30
- Friday Video
- Bad Customer Service…
- Windows 7 Features and Details
- Sync Google Contacts with iPhone
- links for 2008-05-29
- I’m Back, Baby
- Google Android shown off at I/0
- Amazon Streaming Service - A La Carte for Pay
- Firefox 3 is Smoking
- First look at Windows 7
December 2007
November 2007
- Friday Video
- Welcome SkyNet
- Budgeting Your 2008 Web Strategy
- Friday Video: Bonus Edition
- Friday Video
- Stock Photo Directory
- Two Years for GANB
- Open Handset Alliance
- Microsoft to officially release VS 2008 and .NET 3.5
- Friday Video: Bonus Edition
- Friday Video
- Would you buy Facebook stock?
- Feedburner Ads A Disappointment
- Central Iowa Bloggers Meeting Tomorrow
- nice{stylesheet;}
October 2007
- Good Day for Google
- Do Not Track List
- Halloween Video Special: Night of the Living Dead
- History of Halloween
- Set Your Widgets Free
- More On “The Clients”
- Hulu
- Growing Iowa’s Tech Industry
- Friday Video: Bonus Edition
- World War 2.0
- Friday Video
- Microsoft Wins Over Facebook
- Hey AT&T! Remember Me?
- A Hollywood Showdown on the Net
- Cyber Law - A legal arsenal for online business
- 5 Reasons it Sucks to be a Web Developer
- Moo Postcards
- Microsoft Releases Popfly
- Microsoft’s Sharepoint gets a Web 2.0 Facelift
- Google Docs on Mobile
- Ask and ye shall receive
- Marissa Mayer on GigaOm Show
- Web 2.0 Hotspot - Personal Finance
- On Google and Jaiku
- Friday Video
- Central Iowa Bloggers Meeting Tomorrow
- .NET Opening Up!
- Stand Up Meetings
- It’s been good
- Inspirational
- Brad Abrams on Silverlight and WPF
- 9 Reasons Visual Studio 2008 Rocks
- Microsoft Launches Live Workspace
- Embed PDF’s with Adobe Share
September 2007
- Friday Video
- Vista Media Center - Internet TV Beta
- On Noise and YouTube
- Amazon MP3 Store
- *Announcing* Fresh Trends
- A la carte TV
- Friday Video
- Bob Garfield of AdvertisingAge
- Big Week for Google
- Amazon Launches Affiliate Widgets
- *Announcing* Stream Of Conversation
- *Announcing* Fresh Feeds
- Friday Video
- CSS Off - Judge
- Ballmer should pull a Jobs
- Microsoft Bites Back
- Web 2.0 Master!
- Open Source Windows Apps
- Friday Video
- How I ended up on Facebook
- Friday Video
- Interesting Bug
- Jobs Issues iPhone Credit
- What Are We Up To?
- A Google Ad War
- Google Reader Adds Search
- RIP Business 2.0
- CIB Meeting This Friday
- Google Phone - Vaporware or Next Big Thing?
August 2007
- Friday Video
- Apple One in Six Laptops in U.S.
- Friday Video
- Virtualization De-Mystified
- Microsoft Advertising Closes In on AdWords
- Google Embedded Maps
- Facebook - $5 BILLION waste of time
- Blame Microsoft
- MS Paint breaking new ground :)
- Social Network ROI
- Stupid Million Dolllar Ideas
- Friday Video
- 300! (no not the movie)
- Facebook Code Leaked
- The First Internet War
- A Web 2.0 Primer
- Time’s Best of the Web
- Social Bookmarking in Plain English
- Although, Ad Revenue NOT Growing at Premium Sites
- NES on Mobiles
- Politics and the Web, Part II
- Eric Schmidt on Web 3.0
- Internet Ad Spending Scheduled to Surprass All Other Media
- Google Docs API
- Web 2.0 Jumps the Shark
- The Media is Commoditized
- Is Your Software Lightweight?
- Free Idea for Apple
- The New and Improved Central Iowa Bloggers
- Friday Video
- More iPhone Hackery
July 2007
- Fox on Bloggers
- Announcing the new Iowa Blogs
- When is enough, enough?
- Wanna be in a Google commercial?
- More Major Publishers with Invalid RSS
- See Me at SEMEE Tonight
- Safari on Windows: Pleased so far
- This can’t be true…Free Health Insurance for Entrepreneurs?
- More iPhone Hacks
- On Des Moines and Fast Company
- iPhone Hackers on the prowl
June 2007
- David Pogue’s iPhone Video
- Click and Drag Directions from Google Maps
- Links: Designer
- Eight Random Facts
- AOL News Relaunches
- Facebook, the platform
- Inside Facebook
- Customer Videos
- Craigslist Hates Developers
- Top 50 Business Blogs
- Where are all the cool jobs?
- Live Blogger Tossed from NCAA Game
- What’s in your RSS feed - Items, Title, Description
- Car 2.0
- What’s in your RSS feed - Optional Channel Elements
- What’s in your RSS feed - The Link
- Remember the days of Choice?
- What’s in your RSS feed - The Description
- What’s in your RSS feed - The Title
- Wiki in Plain English
May 2007
- WOW: Surface Computing from Microsoft
- Andy’s talk at IgniteIT
- SOBCon feels the sun
- RSS Best Practices Profile
- The Break Up
- Niche Social Networks
- Need A Haircut?
- Web 2.0 Sucks?
- It’s that damn internet again - The Newspaper Saga
- Lifeless Environment
- What does Sun think it’s doing?
- “I’ll bet you (fill in the blank).”
- Microsoft Heart Yahoo!
- Map of Online Communities
- The Next Net Battle - Adobe vs Microsoft
- Classifieds Going Web 3.0
April 2007
- Got a case of the Mondays?
- Most Influential in IT
- One way to lose business…
- RSS in Plain English
- Google, The Unstoppable Machine
- Home Automation
- Ehh Hemm, Bubble Anyone?
- What’s Google up to?
- CSS Positioning
- From New York to London
- Go “Up” Messaging
- Rss enthusiast
- Living the Cube Life
- Twitter Vulnerabiliities
- ATM Scam
- Intranet Out of the Box
- My 2 Cents on the Blogger Code of Conduct
- Craigslist Hoax Leaves House Trashed
- O’Reilly School of Technology
- IgniteIT - Ames, IA
- Is OpenID the Single Sign-On Holy Grail?
- Geek Quotes
- Thirteen23 - Amazing Vista Apps
- A great way to stay on track
- Provide Support - A Customer Service Tool
- SOBCon 07 - A Blogger Conference May 11-12
March 2007
- I want to work for Reed Hastings.
- Internet Security Trends
- Blogger = Spam Heaven
- The woes of an RSS hacker
- Catchup on your March Madness
- What if AT&T buys Yahoo!
- Microsoft - Small Business Summit
- Twitter, the fad and the potential
- Ask - Getting Search Right
- Virb wants you to leave MySpace
- I want this job
- Virb
- What is RSS?
- Browser Wars Episode II
- Why I won’t buy an iPhone - yet
- Five Reasons I Blog
- A Million Dollar Marketing Budget
- Photoshop on the web
February 2007
- The Jarvis View of the News War
- News War - A FrontLine Must Watch
- User Experience Design
- PrezVid - Tracking the YouTube 2008 Campaign
- iPhone Commercial from the Oscars
- The Media Divide
- The Internet Explained - 1993
- Microsoft’s latest ventures - Healthcare?
- Tech President - Tracking the ‘08 Election in New Media
- CommunityNext Panel with Guy Kawasaki
- Internet Demographics
- Yahoo releases latest YUI version
- Is your business model obsolete?
- Is your company ready for DST changes?
- Wurkit Books - a blog recommendation
- Adobe’s New Feed Reader - myFeedz
- Help!
- Cube Door!
- The Medium is the Message
- Study: We’re ready for mobile marketing
- Text Message Google Local
- Will IPTV get versioning right?
January 2007
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Limited Numbered Signature Edition
- ErgoPod - An Ergonomic Workspace
- Subliminal Advertising on TV
- Wordpress 2.1 Today
- AT&T History - Colbert Show
- iPhone Commercial Parody
- Central Iowa Bloggers - News River
- Windows Vista Test Drive
- May change things up a bit
- 10 Reasons Steve Jobs picked Cingular
- More on the DM Register and Business Section
- Thin-Slice Your Software
- Microsoft Launch Event - Des Moines, IA
- More on the iPhone
- Megite 2.0 and Megite Video
- iWant an iPhone
- CES Time
- John Edwards + New Media = Campaign
- Scobleshow - Politics and Bloggers meet in Iowa
- OPML DeMystified
- Little Bit of Truth
- What’s Google’s Homepage PageView worth?
- What about Bob?
- New Google Error?
- I’m back
December 2006
- 2006 Zeitgeist
- On LinkedIn
- The Des Moines Register is looking for an Online Developer
- Jeff Hicks - Making Your Brand Part of the Conversation
- To Vista or not to Vista
- Wordpress Tiger Admin 3
- Firebug
- Applications I use
- Some 2006 Stats
- Bloggers Download BlogDesk Today
- My Desktop Applications
- Des Moines Register - Analyzing My Local Gannett Newspaper
- Can Microsoft play with Adobe?
November 2006
- Reed Hastings on Success
- Living Uninstalled
- Des Moines and Viral Marketing
- ChangeThis - The Bootstrapper’s Bible
- Are Choices Bad?
- Why Firefox is better than IE 7: Reason #1
- Liberated Films - YouTube of Independent Film
- MP3.COM is Back!
- YouTube Down For Maintenance
- Information Cleansing
- Web Three Dot Oh
- Ballmer - Web Interactivity is Key
- Happy Birthday to Us!
- Footers
- Microsoft Revises Vista Licensing
- Is Hell Freezing Over? - Microsoft and Novell Calling Truce
- In Seattle Nov 9 - 17
- The State of Politics - and the Web
- Google Documentary - Behind the Screen
October 2006
- IE7 Ripple Effects
- What To Do When Zombies Attack
- Google Acquires Jotspot
- Yahoo Publisher Network
- IE Team sends cake to Firefox Team - Congrats!
- CNET TV
- Why Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft are NOT Competing
- 37S on Apple
- Yay, Internet Explorer 7 Is Out!
- Google Gadgets for Your Site
- Microsoft and the War for Your Living Room
- Apple Ships iPods with Virus
- Down with Flock, back on Google Reader
- IE 7 Requiring Restart
- ISU College of Business, MIS Program
- Microsoft Designs the iPod Box
- Microsoft Visual Studio vs Adobe Dreamweaver
- Do you care about the Google YouTube deal?
- Big Day for RSS?
- IE7 This Month - Uh Oh Developers
- Super Best Friends on Office Space
- Web 2.0 - Getting it Right the Second Time
- Let your employees have fun!
September 2006
- Google’s Personalized Search
- Business Week Best of the Web vs Me
- USBCells are cool
- Getting Ready for 3.0
- Album artwork Widget
- Lewis Black on Fast Company
- Remember…
- Ricky Gervais Microsoft Training Videos
- NPR Shuffle
- NEW: College Football Goodies
- Extreme Localized Advertising
- Best free stock photos around
- Developer Wars
- 2006 Customers First Awards
- How about them Microformats?
- IE7 site….pretty funny
August 2006
- Photoshop (psd) thumbnails in windows explorer
- Backup Your FireFox Extensions, History, Cache, Themes and more!
- Gmail Shortcuts
- Our Web 2.0 Office
- Google software for your company
- Ever wish you had a time machine?
- How punk rock is your company?
- He believes Dell Lied
- More on IE7 and CSS changes
- Google Base API
- Business Week’s Best of the Web
- CSS Tip!
- What makes a good IT employee?
- Active Collab Rocks
- Buzz Manager - Market Analysis
- Dvorak tears down the CSS walls
- IE7 Standards Compliance, Again
- Getting Viral
- And totally redeemed themselves
- Windows Live Writer Nothing Special
- Down with wizards
- The Wizard on DVD
- How the XBOX 360 Failed
- Less is More … In customer service too
- New version of Opera released - 90.1
- Seth agrees with me
- More on IE7 and web standards
- Media Drunk on Bubbly
- We told them, they listened.
- I got an email from Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay
July 2006
- Arrested Development moves to MSN
- On my way to a super smart home
- A breath of fresh customer service
- How do you read Get A New Browser?
- PodBuffet
- It's not delicious if you can’t taste it
- My favorite sites (at least this week)
- Technorati
- How often do you read your feeds?
- When software gets little
- Movies coming to Bit Torrent
- PC Mac Guy
- Can Dell get back in touch?
- Delicious Library
- 9Rules Technology Feed
- An Ad I Hate
- Web 2.0 aimed at the enterprise
- Basecamp competition
- Can I get a drama filter?
- Wordpress Plugins
- What's the deal with customer service?
June 2006
- Google Checkout Goes Live
- Google Reader blows up
- Art.Com Lost my business
- SaaS Case Study
- wikimapia - Wikipedia on a Google Map
- tourb.us - live music, delivered
- Do you deliver?
- up and running
- moving to a new server
- Thanks Bill
- Intuitive design
- Slooowww
- Doing it for the community
- A Conversation with Microsoft
- Do we need a Web OS?
- Accessible Input Fields
- Design Thinking for Business
- Implementing Google AJAX Search
- 9 rules!
May 2006
- Left Brain—Right Brain? | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog
- Google Hosted Calendar
- Flattening Information Architecture
- web 2.0 slides
- Left and Right Design
- Presto, Real Life Software Part 2
- Tagging in Outlook
- CSS Columns
- Aggregation
- The Contest
- My new Mac Book Pro
- We’re ready
- Google Web Toolkit
- Distributed Working
- New Tools from Microsoft
- Macromedia, err Adobe’s AJAX Framework
- Carson Workshops : Recap
- Yes, they are still all about search
- Google Trends
- Barenaked App
- Headline Typography
- Workflow at work
- Carson Workshops: Building Beautiful Websites with CSS
- FM Publishing Launches
- Developing the Invisible from UX Matters
- Web Standards - A Lost Cause?
- Microsoft RSS Feed Directory
- Christian Montoya » Spring 2006 CSS Reboot Trends
- IPTV is coming
- Network Neutrality
- design trends and their demise
- Customer Support Add-On for Basecamp
- New to Microsoft’s .NET ?
- Dont Bother with Sphere
- SketchUp - Model Your World
- rebooting
- GMail Sync
- Web 2.0, SOA, SaaS
April 2006
- Five Big Online Marketing Mistakes – Part 1
- Real Life Software, Part 1
- Social Niche
- Photoshop mockups vs. Client Expectations
- Futile Communication
- Readables
- Project Detail Systems
- CBS is Getting Viral
- .NET can play too
- Design resource roundup
- Vitamins provide nourishment
- Feature Requests
- links for 2006-04-17
- Brand Search Side Effects
- Element Ready
- Bill Gates goes back to college
- Google is a Portal
- Subscribe to our RSS via Email
- Scooch gets it right!
- More props
- The Web 2.0 List
- cl1p.net Review
- Now there is no excuse
- Standards for Life: Standards in a Nutshell
- Google Strategy, Part Deux
- Google Music Search and Google Reviews
- Recognize!
- NCAA Media Advertising
- Designing for Content
- Wizlite | Collaborative Page Highlighting
- Old Media, New Ideas
- Moll’s Redesign
March 2006
- I’m on rails
- media madness
- Props
- Sell your users
- Dynamics
- The State of Search - Dont Become Extinct
- Adding contributor
- new design!
- The UnSurprising Truth About Good Design
- Web 3.0 in production
- up and coming
- Seeing signals
- Flashblock : Good stuff
- Toss standards out the window?
- Office 2.0 in a Web 2.0 world
- entrepreneurial quotient
- The next best app
- never doubt ‘the Om’
- More on Google Office
- a cell world
- Whitespace vs ‘The Fold’
- getting real is getting rich
- megite news site
February 2006
- where did we go?
- What’s Google’s strategy?
- Did someone say GeoCities?
- A Navigation Study
- listings on steroids
- sparksislying
- Last.fm
- Scoble, king of all bloggers
- Screen Real Estate: Typical vs. Non-typical Usage
- macmanus heart IE
- yahoo throws some developer tools on the table
- technorati adds relevance
- accessibility vs usability
- serial designers
- the FeedLounge faux pas
- coffee naps
- microsoft old vs new
- css mania!
- defensive design
- it is a real nickel
- web 2.0 calendars
- singing along with opera 9
- gmail chat
- Need cash? How about an IPO?
- ”Four things” meme
- internet sector’s lackluster performance
- IE7 beta test
January 2006
- Form Layout Examples
- Problem loading page
- digg comments
- Poor navigation
- yahoo digging for news?
- this is bubbly
- yahoo gives up on search
- wouldn’t it be nice
- spending big to be small
- disney to be adding jobs
- ning not dead
- @Media
- getanewpodcast.com
- yahoo and searchfox
- CSS Typography
- by the numbers - online shopping and usability
- First Impressions
- don’t bet on technorati
- Are classifieds a viable market?
- bubbilicious
- skype 2.0 out now
- gym = new vc’s
- Chatsum
- searchfox shuts down
- more bubble talk
- ingredients of good teams
- the truth
- what does larry have to say?
- Tivo now with podcasts
- look out — ajax 2.0
- simple is better … for hardware?
December 2005
- Google Zeitgeist + Google Design Trends
- bigger font
- Form Overhaul, No Buttons
- best buy has podcasts
- new feed button
- odeo just isn’t cutting it anymore
- comment search?
- google video upcoming updates
- Amazon’s last minute Christmas brilliance
- Move Over Flock
- tj’s new look
- non-usable usability
- Outages,Downtimes, Service Interruptions
- Podcast! Getanewpodcast.com
- del.icio.us down…again?
- del.icio.us down?
- Change This
- flock blogger
- slide out sidebar elements
- list item alternating backgrouds
- posting issues
- stop the presses, yahoo buys del.icio.us
- Purevolume.com reloaded!
- 10 reasons for web standards
- new design
November 2005
- Firefox 1.5
- user preferences
- why comments suck
- the netflix purchase
- Where standards matter least when they should matter most
- building ganb
- ganb and IE
- First official post
- welcome to our new site
