Todd Sampson

Dad, Sailor, Tech Entrepreneur

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Entries Tagged as 'Tech Industry'

Yosemite Falls through the Snow

April 5th, 2009 · Comments

Yosemite Falls through the Snow, originally uploaded by tsampson_2000.

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Yosemite Valley

April 5th, 2009 · Comments

Yosemite Valley, originally uploaded by tsampson_2000.

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Are You Retweetable?

December 16th, 2008 · Comments

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The retweet — or RT as it is commonly used now — is becoming ever more popular on Twitter. Someone posts a tweet that you find interesting, you “retweet” it to your followers to make sure they see it.  Echo chamber issues aside, this is causing Twitter to become an [...]

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Tags: Tech Industry · Wisdom

Leadership, Management and Acquisitions

December 16th, 2008 · Comments

Cover via Amazon

I have been a big Seth Godin fan for years.  While I often find that I enjoy his blog and online videos more than his books, his new one Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us really hits it out of the park.  Among the many insights I gleamed from the book — [...]

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Tags: Business · Tech Industry

Cloudspace’s Excellence in Web 2.0

October 8th, 2008 · Comments

ITFlorida has awarded Cloudspace their Excellence in Web 2.0 award.  Congrats guys!

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App Store for Apple TV?

July 18th, 2008 · Comments

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I came across a great post by Doctor Popular (via Laughing Squid) about Using the iPhone as a gamer interface.  Very cool stuff.  And it got me thinking…
My brother and business partner John Sampson mentioned the other day that he was pretty amazed that more people haven’t gotten into the Apple TV.  It [...]

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Tags: Tech Industry · Television

Killer Product Features

March 26th, 2008 · Comments

I am beginning to think there is no way to avoid it. Every time we launch a new product feature at MyBlogLog, someone (usually multiple someones) tells me the new feature will kill another company. In the past month I have heard, “This new feature is…”

a Digg killer.
a Technorati killer.
a FriendFeed killer.
a Socialthing [...]

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Tags: Applications · Tech Industry

MacSpeech Dictate Shipping Update

February 16th, 2008 · Comments

I posted last week that MacSpeech was reporting that Dictate — their new voice recognition software for Mac — would be shipping yesterday. A new news release on their site says that they have started shipping, but only to “iListen Founding Customers” (whoever they are). They will next ship to iListen “crossgrade” customers. [...]

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Kent Brewster at Search Sig

February 10th, 2008 · Comments

I already posted about Ian Kennedy speaking at the Net Tuesday event in San Francisco this Tuesday, February 12, 2008. But, as Ian pointed out in the comments, there is another great event happening Tuesday night.
If you are closer to the South Bay, be sure to check-out Kent Brewser at the Search Sig event [...]

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Distributed Social Networks have Tipped

February 10th, 2008 · Comments

The last several months we have seen the launch of OpenSocial, Data Portability, DiSo, Google’s Social Graph, and many related efforts. I have also noticed the MyBlogLog Reader Roll on nearly every site that I visit. (Even with the amazing MyBlogLog growth numbers of the last year, I thought it was probably just [...]

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