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Killing Tynt’s “Read More:” Clipboard Copy Hijacker With The Adblock Plus Plug-In For Firefox

I love Firefox. It’s pretty much the only Web browser I use. I hate Tynt. If you’ve ever copied text from a Web page, then pasted it, only to find a mysterious “Read More:” link inserted at the end of the text you copied, you just ran headfirst into Tynt. Each time a user pastes [...]

New England GiveCamp 2010: What A Great Experience

The first New England GiveCamp was this weekend at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development building in Cambridge, MA, and it was, by far, one of the most rewarding experiences I’ve had in the 15 years I have been professionally coding. About 100 technical and non-technical volunteers spent the weekend of June 11-13 writing code for [...]

Social Media, Real-World Friends, A Thick Skin And A Sensible Strategy

Just a short while ago, my Facebook Wall had this series of notes from The Economist: What’s remarkable in this exchange is the degree of openness involved and the ability to accept a contrary opinion without changing their course of action. In short, it’s how social media is supposed to work; and it’s evidence of [...]

Designers And Developers: Donate Your Time, Talent At New England GiveCamp, June 11-13, 2010

One of the things I found out about at Tuesday’s MSDN Northeast Roadshow stop in Augusta is the first New England GiveCamp, June 11-13 at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development center in Cambridge, MA. I’m attending, and I’d urge you to do so. A GiveCamp is basically a gathering of developers, DBAs, project managers, designers [...]

A Beginning Entrepreneur’s Guide To Pricing, Part 2: How Price Conveys Value

When I previously wrote about how to price professional services, I noted that my strategy is to price toward the higher end of the market. That is, my rates tend to be higher than most, because I believe that price conveys value. People instinctively assume the price of something directly correlates to its quality — [...]

Goodbye To Yahoo! Answers: It’s Best We Part

Yahoo! suspended my Answers account today, for reasons they did not disclose but of which I am fairly certain. I made the mistake a few weeks back of calling out a sock puppeteer via e-mail, after about a month of his using his puppets to vote down my answers and vote up his. I noted [...]