Technology

Google Doodle Celebrates Mark Twain’s Birthday.

November 30, 2011 By Dan Perlman Leave a Comment

Crusty Mark Twain gets his own Google Doodle as does Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.

If you’d like to know more, here is Vatornews’ take.

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Want to be a Social Media Strategist?

November 23, 2010 By Dan Perlman Leave a Comment

This presentation shows what Jeremiah Owyang of the Altimeter groups finds to be the job.

Keynote: Career Path of Corporate Social Strategist

View more presentations from Jeremiah Owyang.

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What’s Happening?

November 1, 2009 By Dan Perlman

jake and me

I bought the domain name danperlman.com several years ago with the idea of writing a personal blog. That never really happened. Now this domain is becoming the heir to my web writing.

Among other online toys and personas, I’ve used Techgolem and had planned to write a blog about tech startups focusing on marketing as techgolem.com. That never really happened. So I’m pointing techgolem.com here, so if you’re one of the 3 – 5 people who landed on that site in a day and wonder how the hell you got here – now you know.

For the last year, I’ve written about technology and tools on enquiringmimes.com (I have an unfortunate weakness for stupid domain names).

Moving forward, the plan will be to still write enquiringmimes.com. There I’ll continue to cover the kinds of technology and tools that fascinate me and are supposed to make me more productive.

danperlman.com will cover startups, marketing, some technology and probably a little food and the occasional personal stuff.

I’m also parking previous techgolem and enquiringmime posts here just because.

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What about Bob? or Sergey?

October 15, 2009 By Dan Perlman Leave a Comment

google-labs
Gmail Labs are the experimental additions to Google’s web-based mail service. Some are muy useful, like being able to add emails to a “to do” list, others not so much, like changing the Gmail logo back to show that the service is still in beta, as it was for so long.

For awhile the additions were coming hot and heavy, lately we haven’t seen much new — until today. Gmail added two new ones – “Got the Wrong Bob?” and “Don’t forget Bob” .

Got the wrong Bob? – Gmail checks to make sure the “Bob” you’re including in your email is the right one based on who you email most often. When I send to Mark, I mean my brother, not some guy I worked with in a former life. Addressing email to the wrong person can, of course, be more embarrassing that my example.
Don’t forget Bob – With “Don’t forget Bob,” you can start composing an email to a group of people, and Gmail will suggest other contacts you might want to include.

To enable either or both, go to the labs icon in the upper right of your Gmail screen, click it, find the Bob’s and enable them.

Since it is Google, wouldn’t “Got the wrong Sergey” have been catchier?

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Prosaic steps to becoming happier

October 3, 2009 By Dan Perlman 2 Comments

Declaring that I’m a fanboy for Gretchen Rubin and her Happiness Project is no new ground here, but watch this to see Gretchen on the CBS News giving “prosaic” steps you can take to make yourself happier. She mentions: