Monthly Archives: February 2010

Monthly Archives: February 2010

Irony: Day of Thunder Postponed due to Snow

By Howard Yermish | February 26th, 2010
Just a quick post: The Online Marketing Day of Thunder scheduled for February 27, 2010 has been postponed due to snow. The new tentative date is April 17th pending the availability of the training room. The new date is Saturday, April 24, 2010 from 9am-4pm. Hopefully it will not snow at the end of April.
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Drum Music with a Wii Remote

By Howard Yermish | February 23rd, 2010
Sometimes technology and music intersect in amazing ways and this in one of them. Patrick Flanagan has managed to make a Wii Remote control all kinds of different drums and percussion instruments. If you know where my brain is, you can figure out why this is SO AMAZINGLY COOL!
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Recent Tweets for February 23, 2010

By Howard Yermish | February 23rd, 2010
I challenged SunGard to make me an offer: [view] SunGard is looking for a CEO for Availability Services – http://bit.ly/axDOzg – Go ahead, make me an offer SunGard. After a couple of posts back and forth between @SomaCowGeoff, I suggested a feature for Tweetie to it’s developer: [view] @atebits Great idea for Tweetie feature… allow [...]
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Your Email List Stinks

By Howard Yermish | February 22nd, 2010
Week after week, the same tired, boring content. Over and over and over again. What a waste of pixels. Someone somewhere convinced you that the person with the biggest email database wins. Perhaps you should rethink your email marketing strategy.
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Learning from the Grateful Dead

By Howard Yermish | February 17th, 2010
Recorded sound can easily be digitized and delivered over the Internet. It will eventually be free because the cost to deliver is nothing, and the inventory of choice is wildly abundant. On the surface this stinks. Especially if you are a song writer, a band or the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). This doesn’t [...]
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Wired Magazine Understands

By Howard Yermish | February 16th, 2010
This short 4-minute video demonstrates how Wired is going to use technology to do what they do really well: tell stories.
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David and Goliath, or Why Social Networks Scare the Heck Out of Companies

By Howard Yermish | February 15th, 2010
Silent Bob (Actor/Director Kevin Smith) wasn’t so silent. Southwest Airlines responded. And it got ugly from there. Whatever the specifics, consider that one person was able to communicate a negative experience to over a million people in real-time. And within 36 hours, most of the major media outlets in the country were covering the story. [...]
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Open your “Window” for the Weather

By Howard Yermish | February 6th, 2010
For those of you in the Philadelphia area, you might have noticed a little bit of snow this morning. But in case you haven't looked out the window, you can always head over to Twitter and see what is trending: Blizzard
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