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The Redneck Guide to Silicon Valley

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Tonight I took the stage with 18 other folks in front of +700 other folks for Ignite Raleigh at the Lincoln in downtown Raleigh. My presentation was “The Redneck Guide to Silicon Valley”.
I had a lot of fun and kept up with the pace of 15 seconds per slide pretty well even [...]

March 4, 2010 18 comments Read more... →

iPad Review

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The Friday Fudge Five have weighed in on the collective wisdom of crowds to bring you a comprehensive and hard hitting look at perhaps the most amazing and innovative product of the 21st century… the latest creation from Apple — the iPad.

January 28, 2010 0 comments Read more... →

Bandwidth caps are broken

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Apparently, Comcast has moved ahead with their infamous Comcast broadband cap and provided a Comcast broadband cap tool so that Comcast subscribers can see what they are using.
To be clear, my comments/opinions will reference Comcast but this is not meant to single out Comcast. I’ll just use Comcast since it is more succinct to [...]

December 3, 2009 0 comments Read more... →

Kill Your TV

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A pre-production evaluation of the latest foray into the digital living room from Cisco may have flaws but it represents a response to perceived needs of consumers that demand more simplicity. Expect to see the an array of alternatives that deliver much simpler use case scenarios for a world that is composed of consumers that [...]

December 2, 2009 0 comments Read more... →

Movember

On November 1, 2009 I will… transform.

I have decided to join a global movement that is bringing much needed attention to cancers that affect men. I’m doing this by growing a Moustache this Movember, the month formerly known as November. My commitment is to grow a moustache all November and I am hoping that [...]

November 22, 2009 1 comment Read more... →

Facebook Hates Email

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Update: January 12, 2010 Hell freezes over
Background: TechCrunch is having their RealTime CrunchUp event and solicited comments from the founder of Gmail, FriendFeed — Paul Buchheit — now at Facebook. Comments don’t appear to be working so… as I was trying to say:
Facebook has demonstrated very clearly (so far) that their approach to “email” is [...]

November 20, 2009 0 comments Read more... →

Audience

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I’ve embedded a presentation with my raw notes from Audience Conference (see below).  Enjoy!  Also, please scroll down for official resources and additional commentary from others that attended the event.
Audience Conference 2009
View more documents from Jay Cuthrell.

As you might expect, there are other resources elsewhere to temper and consider.  I’d recommend starting with official sources [...]

November 8, 2009 0 comments Read more... →

Got my card? We should stay in touch.

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This post is a landing page for when I attend a conference. In this case, the conference is Audience Conference. While I’m not certain who I will meet or what companies will be there — I have high expectations. 100% of the companies I work with have some kind of audience. [...]

November 5, 2009 0 comments Read more... →

straight pool

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Let’s not mince words: Cisco sells routers. Cisco sells a great many IP things but you’ve probably heard: Cisco sells routers. While Cisco has a massive portfolio of solutions and an M&A trail that would make any MBA blush, the Starent deal is straight pool.

Mobile core in the side pocket.
Much of the analysis so far [...]

October 19, 2009 0 comments Read more... →