http://mikepk.com Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:46:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I picked up a copy of 1Password a while back when it was on sale. I have to give a brief plug for it, it's a very nice piece of software. You never realize how many passwords you're managing in your head and how bad your passwords are until you ... http://mikepk.com/2008/12/one-password-to-rule-them-all/ Gadget geeks love spec sheets. When the iphone was first released, many gadgeteers sneered at the device, no GPS? Insanse! No video? Crippled! No removable battery? Scandalous! 2MP camera? What a piece of crap! When I first got the iPhone, and being of a technological bent, friends and acquaintances would ask ... http://mikepk.com/2008/12/a-touchscreen-does-not-an-iphone-make/ Apple: Aluminum MacBook X-Ray Makes Perfect Desktop Background: "" Technology in x-ray always looks cool to me. (Via Gizmodo.) http://mikepk.com/2008/11/cool-macbook-x-ray/ I've been using our new product VibeMetrix to read materials on social media tools, and general philosophy of social media marketing. It's interesting how many slight variations there are on the theme and what people think it means. I while back I ran across this slideshow by a local ... http://mikepk.com/2008/09/social-media/ I know we're used to thinking of it that way, but I think that image belies the nature of the company or what it's rapidly evolving into. Google has created some pretty cool technology, have some of the best and brightest working away in the Googleplex, but are they a ... http://mikepk.com/2008/09/google-is-not-a-technology-company/ The blog has been a sparse lately because we've been working, heads-down, on VibeMetrix. What is it? VibeMetrix, is a tool for engaging with social media. We hope it will evolve to become the best tool for engaging with bloggers, building relationships and filtering and tracking conversations on the internet. I've ... http://mikepk.com/2008/08/vibemetrix-our-newest-product/ I was reading my normal feed stream today and came across this post from the 37signals guys, "I had that idea years ago!". It made me smile, ironically, I wrote a similar post (in the same spirit) a few years ago so I thought I'd dredge it up and repost ... http://mikepk.com/2008/07/i-wrote-that-post-years-ago/ Independence Day has to be one of my favorite holidays. Happy 4th my friends, and without further ado... muppets... Gotta love beaker. http://mikepk.com/2008/07/happy-4th/ I've been thinking more on names and reading a lot of the commentary that seems to have been sparked by that same GigaOm post. I still think we're overly obsessed with startup names, but I felt like my last post on it was missing something. We all have some deep ... http://mikepk.com/2008/06/wonder-bread/ Names. In startups why do we obsess about them? Naming things is fun. It's a direct application of creative energies. It's also something anyone can do so people feel free to give you their two cents at every turn. But how much of an effect does the name of a ... http://mikepk.com/2008/06/roses-by-any-other/