Category: Blog

  • Recognized with 2014 Microsoft MVP award

    Recognized with 2014 Microsoft MVP award

    It’s official! I received notification yesterday that Microsoft has awarded me the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) designation for the ninth consecutive year. The email proclaims: “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2014 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world…

  • Facebook’s ‘experiment’ isn’t evil, it’s just marketing 101

    Facebook’s ‘experiment’ isn’t evil, it’s just marketing 101

    Facebook is taking a lot of heat after revelations that it conducted experiments with user’s social network newsfeeds. The outrage is unjustified, though. All Facebook really did is AB testing. It’s Marketing 101, and it’s used by a variety of industries for various purposes. First, a little background on Facebook’s transgressions. According to a study…

  • Amazon offering bundle of over 30 popular paid apps for free

    Amazon offering bundle of over 30 popular paid apps for free

    FREE. That is all. OK, it’s not really all–but need I say more? Amazon is offering 31 of the most popular paid apps for free for two days only–Friday June 27, and Saturday June 28. If you have a Kindle Fire–or any Android device for that matter–now is your chance to download $100 worth of…