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Stephen Pickering

Category: Tech

  • Internet Shopping: Etsy.com Continues to Flourish

    On the heels of a recent report that Etsy, the ecommerce site known for “arts & crafts” is set to do $50,000,000 in revenues this year from a base of 7 million customers and over $400 million in transactions, I felt it would be good to write about it. I’ve heard about Etsy for years,…

  • How to Link Text in HTML

    OK, I know this is dumb. But mainly this post is for me. When I write things down, and especially in a public facing place like a blog, it helps me remember. Which goes to one of my tenants: A blog can simply be a repository of things you want to remember, and if that…

  • The Best Way to Use Twitter

    Update 9/27/11 Here it is in a nutshell. You don’t need to read the rest of this post: Don’t worry about getting followers. Just fill your inbound (who you follow) with cool people your interested in who, and this is key, whose information will somehow make your life better. Help you learn cool new stuff. …

  • More Examples of the Social Media “Shadow”

    I think every time I see a Tweet or other notification from out in the World of Social Media that is an example of Social Media’s “Shadow” Side, I’ll put in a post. We’ll call it the on going “Shadow Side of Social Media” series, although in some sense, I hate to harp on the…

  • More Cloud Site Hosting Questions Answered

    As some of you may or may not know, I’m reselling Rackspace’s Cloud Sites product. Here are the plan details. From time to time, I publish recent questions I get by email concerning the product, so that I can build up an FAQ page that is here. Q: I assume the name servers use the…

  • The iPhone Could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (9).

    Update 10/07/10 – It definitely could be just a bad USB port causing it. That same port that was causing this error for me is also crapping out every few seconds when I plug in a mouse. So that’s definitely what it was for me. I don’t know why or how USB ports can go…