handpickedtomatoes
Blog URL http://handpickedtomatoes.com/blog
Located Irvine, California USA
Tags web_development, web_design, web_architecture, business_and_the_web
web development collaboration
Latest Blog Posts
- Microsoft Office Web Apps versus Google Apps on Nov 4, 2009 in Business Cloud Computing Google Microsoft Google Apps Office Web Apps
Microsoft is countering Google Apps with its own cloud based office productivity suite called Office Web Apps. Why should you, as a business or personal user of office productivity software care? Because the cloud makes things easier, safer, and a...
- The Biggist Mistake is Not Asking for Their Email on Oct 22, 2009 in Uncategorized
OK, you’ve earned their attention. They’re your newest fan. Your hard work resulted in them visiting your site and they’ve found your message relevant. Now what? Why not ask for an email address? FeedBurner makes doing tha...
- What is Google Wave and When Should You Jump In? on Oct 19, 2009 in Business Online Marketing Daniel Tenner Google Wave
What is the Wave? Wave is a new collaboration technology from Google. It’s just been made available in a pre-beta version to about 300,000 to 600,000 people globally. (100,000 invitees who in turn can give access to 5 additional people e...
- Slammed by an Online Review Lately? on Oct 9, 2009 in Uncategorized
It starts off like this: “Worst service…I have ever seen”. And ends like this: ”…Don’t ever do business with these guys, EVER! Followed by a 1 out of 5 star rating. Ouch, that really hurts. It hurts doubly ba...
- 7 Reasons to Dump Microsoft for Google Apps on Oct 2, 2009 in Business Cloud Computing Google Apps Microsoft Office Professional
I was an early adopter of Microsoft Office in the late 80s. While the development underground was busy hating Redmond – and demonstrating their lack of effection by exploiting countless Windows security holes, I was busy admiring Bill Gates,...
- Hooters, Owls and URL Shortening on Sep 10, 2009 in Online Marketing Web Development online branding ow.ly Twitter url shortening url shortner
Creating a top URL shortener has the bling chasers in Silicon Valley coding like mad. One of my favorite’s is ”ow.ly“. Why ow.ly? Two reasons: 1. the ow.ly url itself is super short. Twitter power users know the importance of l...
- Protect Your Brand on Aug 31, 2009 in Online Marketing
Decades before the World Wide Web, Dylan wrote, “the vandals took the handles” as part of the lyric to Subterranean Homesick Blues. That makes the words pretty prophetic being that today there are people feverishly scheming to register ev...




