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Who Killed Google Wave?

By David W. Boles on January 28, 2010 7:25 AM | 6 Comments

I want to know why Google Wave was found dead in its grave and who put it there? It's been a couple of months since there's been any news on Wave from Google. All the interesting active "Waves" have washed out. What's up with the Wave?

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Cash in Pocket

By David W. Boles on November 10, 2009 8:22 AM | 6 Comments

We live in the world of virtual money -- but has the ATM card replaced the money in your pocket?

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The Definition of WordPunk

By David W. Boles on August 6, 2009 9:15 AM | 2 Comments

Creating ideas and words can help bring home a brand and emboss meaning in the atmosphere of the internet. When we started this WordPunk blog on August 11, 2007, we were hosted on TypePad and the word -- "WordPunk" -- really had no divine meaning or intended purpose.

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Being a Man in the Disney Store

By Gordon Davidescu on July 14, 2009 10:19 AM | 7 Comments

About eleven years ago, I had a rather unpleasant encounter in The Disney Store that still leaves my mind wandering and wondering - why did it happen? What could I have done differently to get a better reaction? Let me set up the stage for you:

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What Good is Plagium?

By David W. Boles on June 15, 2009 9:38 AM | 6 Comments

Plagium is a new web service that tracks "Plagiarisms" using the Yahoo! Search API. I tried Plagium this morning and I was disappointed in its lack of helpful returns and I was disappointed because I always love catching content thieves.

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The Tropicana Nipple

By David W. Boles on April 21, 2009 10:32 AM | 4 Comments

PepsiCo have done it again! First, they re-designed the Pepsi bottle to look like a wrinkled penis and now they have recalled the redesigned Tropicana orange juice carton because the cap -- in the shape of half an orange -- actually looks like a human nipple.

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Writer Groups Ruin Writers

By David W. Boles on March 9, 2009 1:00 PM | 8 Comments

The business of writing is not mystical or special. Writing is tough and thankless work and I don't know a working writer who has time to stop to attend a writer's group because the author is either in the middle of a deadline or is collapsing after just hitting a drop-dead date.

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