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Gary Vaynerchuk is the host of Wine Library TV (with over 80,000 viewers a day) and Director of Operations at his family’s company, Wine Library, in Springfield, NJ. He grew that business from $4 million to $60 million in only five years, and is … Read More »

LessConf Interview: Mike McDerment, Freshbooks

Mike McDerment is the co-founder and CEO of Freshbooks. I caught up with him at the recent LessConf event in Jacksonville, Fla, to chat about Freshbooks’ focus, whether you can trust web apps with your data, and working with family members. Do you work with … Read More »

 
 

Authenticity As Your Extreme Internet Strategy

Speaking at Izeafest, influential blogger Liz Strauss (@lizstrauss) of Successful Blog said that she considers authenticity her “extreme strategy,” both online and off. Strauss, who is a social media and web strategist based in Chicago and CEO and founder of SOBCon, … Read More »

Are You an Influencer?

Aaron Brazell, aka @technosailor and founder and lead editor of Technosailor.com, when he spoke at Izeafest 2009, shared his thoughts on what makes someone an “influencer.” The difference between being a celebrity and an influencer, he said, is that, “Being a celebrity … Read More »

I like Twitter, and I embrace it for both personal and private use. Until recently, though, I’ve been hesitant to take the next logical step and attend a tweetup, despite their popularity here in Toronto. (A tweetup is a gathering of Twitter users, and is something … Read More »

What's Your Favorite Web App, Guy Kawasaki?

I’ve been at SXSW attending sessions, seeing product demos and interviewing tech company founders. I’ve also been asking anyone who identifies themselves as a web worker about their favorite web app and how it helps them with their work. Here is the first of a series of … Read More »

WebWorkerDaily Guide to SXSW Interactive 2009

South by Southwest 2009, one of the largest and most widely-covered technology and Internet conferences of the year (and that’s to say nothing of the music and film portions!), is fast approaching. While many industry insiders will attend in person, SXSW will also be widely covered … Read More »

Do Cell Phones and Airline Flights Mix?

What if the restriction against cell phones on airlines were lifted? Read More »

WWD Meets TechCrunch in Paris

I get to go to the first TechCrunch Meetup in Paris today! I’ll be wearing two hats there (hopefully neither of them a lampshade, but there will be an open bar, so we’ll see…). One is my entrepreneur hat; of course I’m hoping somebody who hasn’t … Read More »

Google, GE Join Up to Tackle Energy Policy & Tech

Search engine giant Google and conglomerate GE have announced a partnership to collaborate on energy policy and technology, including pushing for a smarter electricity grid, cleaner power generation and greener transportation. Initially the companies will work on policy to build out more electricity transmission lines … Read More »

Earlier this month, I said that "Nokia’s N78 is going to surprise you" and now’s your chance to see if I was right. The U.S. version of the … Read More »

Let me get the important bits out right up front… I don’t think this is a fantastic solution for remote controlling a Mac (or a PC for that matter) … Read More »

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Big news today out of Adobe with their Acrobat.com launch. It’s a suite of online tools based around Adobe Flash & Flex that offers a word … Read More »

DeskAway is a project management solution from India-based Synage. Discovering Basecamp was a revelation, but I’m paying over $24/month for the service and am running out of the alloted Active Projects (15). I figured I should look at other options as my business grows. Although it … Read More »

As a former designer who still dabbles in the odd piece of commercial or hobbyist work, I’m sometimes stuck at the inception of a project, trying to discover the initial creative sparks that ignite a design, for those fragments of inspiration that set out the … Read More »

MicroISVs, software developers who have fired their bosses and clients to start their own software companies, work on the bleeding edge of online technology. They are the earliest of adopters, among the fastest to jump on a new tool, idea, process or site that let’s … Read More »

After five years of working remotely, the one problem I’ve yet to solve is the conference call. Or more accurately, the conference call where I’m the only one on the phone. If you telecommute, you’re savvy to this problem, and even if you don’t, you can … Read More »

By Kyle West Editor’s Note: Around here, “switching” isn’t just changing operating systems. It can also be about leaving a more traditional work environment behind and switching to web work. Kyle made the jump a couple of years ago and shares with us the lessons he … Read More »

Free battery meter applications for Windows Mobile are a dime-a-dozen, but we haven’t covered any in while, so some of our newer readers might benefit from VistaHide Battery Gauge. A quick … Read More »

Are you happy with your cell phone? Do you feel you get enough value from your landline provider? What’s next in the communications world? These and many other topics are up for discussion at the Emerging Communications (eComm) Conference next month in Silicon … Read More »

Note to self: never get a review unit of anything two weeks before or after CES. Not even a new-fangled USB paperweight. OK, not that I’ve got that personal productivity mantra off my … Read More »

Facebook is everywhere. Read More »

Jonathan Lane worked side contract jobs as a web developer until he grew his business enough to freelance full-time. Then he moved to Mayne Island, a small island off of Canada’s west coast, a place he had visited as a child. Now he takes on … Read More »

Chuck Brotman is the Director of Sales Engineering for ON24, a webcasting and rich media marketing company based in San Francisco. He’s seen the web impact the sales organization in terms of convenience, speed and productivity. Describe your job/career/business I work as the director of sales engineering … Read More »

Joshua Porter runs a design and consulting company that focuses on designing social web applications. He left full-time employment this summer to found Bokardo Design and now works out of his home office. Josh blogs at Bokardo. Describe your job/career In August of this year I … Read More »

Stephanie M. Cockerl enjoys the freedom the web allows her to build things fast while keeping an eye on her grandma. She’s a great example of how the web can help you blend the professional and the personal. Stephanie’s company next STEPH offers services including blog … Read More »

Alex Harris of Alex Designs runs a 100%-online web consulting and design business. Describe your job/career/business Interactive creative director managing an agency (AlexDesigns.com) that is focused on Web Based Customer Acquisition and Conversion of eCommerce, Lead Generation and Traffic Building. Our team delivers effective creative … Read More »

Judi Sohn doesn’t just edit Web Worker Daily, she’s also an executive at nonprofit C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition. She works remotely for the Alexandra, Virginia based organization from her home in New Jersey (or anywhere else she happens to be). Describe your job/career/business. You may know … Read More »

This week’s field report comes from Gautam Ghosh, an HR consultant and micro-community founder based in Hyderabad, Indian. Gautam combines home-based prospecting for opportunities with on-site work. Describe your job/career/business I’m a Human Resource Consultant based in Hyderabad, India. How has the web changed your working life? It … Read More »

In the beginning, there was instant messaging. And it was good at a lot of things. But not everything. The subtle nuances of modern communication sometimes require face time. With new web-based video chat services, you can replace that : ) with a real, live smiley … Read More »

Today’s web worker field report comes from Lea Woodward, who ditched a job as a management consultant to travel the globe with her husband Jonathan as a location independent coach, consultant, and writer. Describe your job/career/business My husband and I are both ex-corporate rat racers. I was a … Read More »

Back when the Zune dropped (and kept dropping…) I was talking with a friend about the features – specifically the wifi that came built-in. While the product as a whole seemed like a brick, there was something interesting about having a media device with ad-hoc … Read More »

What if you were able to fight mass extinction by snapping nature photos with your GPS-enabled device? Soon you will be with the Encyclopedia of Life, an uber-wiki that will one day “provide single-portal access to all knowledge of living organisms.” The ambitious project … Read More »

Over the past few weeks I’ve had to make multiple trips to my local Apple store to pick up this, that, and the other. I’m the typical guy in that I when I go shopping I don’t actually “shop.” I go in, get what I need, … Read More »

If you haven’t heard yet, Apple and AT&T have FINALLY announced the phone and data plans that will be available to iPhone users on Friday. And true to Apple form, they have convinced AT&T to offer plans the “Apple Way.” The available plans are: $59.99 … Read More »

Hmmm….those Coffee Break posts we do from Starbucks might be harder for me to come by. I was checking out the XM Radio web page to see if … Read More »

Life in the multiplatform age means we get phones call from Samuel L. Jackson telling us to see his Snakes on a Plane, but media also moves the other way, rippling up through the mediascape. Premiering this Wednesday, June 18, Lil’ Bush is … Read More »

A New York Times article over the weekend, “The High Price of Creating Free Ads,” takes a look at the difficulty H. J. Heinz brand ketchup is having in getting quality work in a consumer-generated advertising (CGA) promotion on YouTube. The current user-submitted video tagged … Read More »

I am sick and tired of hearing this over and over again. It’s been on so many blogs, and even in Mac Addict magazine – that Apple will/should license the Mac OS to other hardware manufacturers, so that, for example, you could legally run OS X on … Read More »

I believe 2007 will be yet another exciting year for fans of Apple. Undoubtedly we’ll see a handful of new hardware specs announced that will set our mouths-a-salivating, and our wallets-a-weeping. I’m guessing the iPod roll-out schedule will stay on par with 2006 (so … Read More »

Last time I met with Randall Kruep, he was out pushing Procket Networks. And now he is heading up a new start-up, Stoke, which is building products that help cell phone networks play nice with WiFi networks. With funding from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins, … Read More »

Wall Street Journal reports that Intel Corp. is going to invest in Craig McCaw ‘s new company Clearwire, and the two companies will work on making WiMAX viable. The money is coming from a $150 million fund set up by Intel’s venture-capital arm to promote … Read More »

The private networks might be on their last legs. Latest data from TeleGeography’s Global Internet Geography research service, shows that the Internet backbones now account for over 85% of the world’s cross-border capacity used in fiber-optic networks. The balance of used capacity is dedicated to … Read More »

Here is a completely kooky stuff from a post by Jim Griffin, founder of the Pho music/tech mailing list on EFF blog on the Grokster decision. That is a ways off, but from what I’m hearing back-channel it is not too far off, as Apple prepares … Read More »

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