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Dear Duke Energy (and your web guys)

Dear Duke Energy,
I would like to activate my account online, as I very much cherish the wonderful utilities that you bring to me in my daily life. However, in your quest to make your website “Web 2.0″ cool, with Wizbang Ajax, you have managed to make me and every other Firefox and Safari user, unable [...]


Unofficial LinkedIn Profile API

I have been foaming at the mouth since I read this post about a LinkedIn API. (For the none techie - an API gives you the ability to grab information from LinkedIn and pull that data in to another website, plus a whole lot more). However, so far LinkedIn has yet to deliver anything I can use.


The future of the internet is at risk (seriously) [Video]

This 10 minute video will make you smarter than all your friends on the subject of “net neutrality”, and specifically why we should REALLY REALLY be paying attention to it.


Download the free LinkedIN Wordpress theme

Dear Wordpress World, here is a theme inspired by the popular corporate “social network” LinkedIn.
UPDATE: Being a theme virgin, I didn’t think about even trying it out on the “testing” wordpress format. Out of shear embarrassment for how it looks I removed this download. - I’m going back to the drawing board.
Name: LinkedIN Wordpress Theme
Download: [...]


If you haven’t failed, you haven’t lived. [Short Video]

Life = Risk. I’m not sure who made this, but its outstanding.


Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation

This week The McKinsey Quaterly asks: what does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? Apparently, a lot.

Read On: Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM


Dapper: The Data Mapper

Dapper: The Data Mapper
As a marketing technologist, I work with a lot of Data feeds like RSS, ATOM and XML. However, many websites do not offer any type of “RSS” to pull from. Dapper is a really good answer to this problem.
With Dapper you visually build RSS feeds (or other formats) from almost any [...]


Blog by Phone with Jott.com

Jott you had me at “Who do you want to jott?”. Jott.com is a mobile service that converts your voice in to text. How many times have you been struck by brilliance while driving? Every time it happens to me, I now hit my jott.com favorite and boom it’s captured.
On top of the [...]


Another Apple shareholder files backdating lawsuit - Engadget

After the SEC more or less cleared Apple of those pesky backdating charges and a California court dismissed a shareholder class-action lawsuit accusing the company of improper accounting procedures, it looked like the good times were over, but fear not: another institutional investor has filed suit against Apple alleging the company cooked the books. The [...]


8 Best Open Source Shopping Carts | WebTecker the latest Web Tech, Resources and News.

A lot of friends and clients often ask for suggestions on ecommerce solutions, a recent post on Webtracker does a nice job breaking down some of the more popular open source solutions out there…

is robust, professional grade e-Commerce shopping cart that you can download, install, and use for free. In the back end, you [...]


Appendant + Arbita.

Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) April 9, 2008 — Arbita, the Minneapolis Internet Recruitment Powerhouse, has signed a definitive letter of intent to purchase selected assets of Indianapolis-based Appendant Marketing Group, LLC. The asset purchase will close on or before June 30, 2008. Under the terms of the agreement, key personnel from Appendant will join Arbita in [...]


My Work Experience - by Brandon Corbin 2008

Interesting in seeing what I have been up-to over the last 12 years? Check out my working resume here.


AppleInsider | Steve Jobs pans Flash on the iPhone

AppleInsider | Steve Jobs pans Flash on the iPhoneThis is really really annoying. I almost can not believe that Apple is still using the excuse of “power consumption” as a reason for not having a Flash Plugin on the iPhone. Steve is really good at making us look the other way from the facts - [...]


Apple Store’s Tokyo Elevator Control System

Apple even spends time on making cool and USABLE elevator controls!