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AMEX small business on web 2.0

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Ok, they don’t call it that, but the folks at AMEX Open Forum have posted an excellent set of short video interview clips about web 2.0 for small business, with Sean Parker of Facebook,  Jimmy Wales of  Wikipedia, hosted by Seth Godin, marketing blogger.
I’m often involved in helping traditional businesses grapple with the impact and [...]

This post written in Chrome

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I really debated a few years back when I gave up my Linux desktop and moved back to Windows.  I was a bit reluctant to do it, but I had just too many instances of clients needing me to run a Windows-only app, and then there was the blackberry/email integration, which truly only works well [...]

Some random name stats

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First names have a longer, thinner tail than long names:

 130 first names cover 50% of the US population
2500 last names cover 50% of the US population

From another large database:
Most popular first name (male):  Michael
Most popular last name: Smith
Now, for the interesting part …
My brothers name:  Michael Smith
Freaky, huh?