Welcome to Nerdcast – Take 03: The Tagging Twins.

Although Puneet Gupta and Rafael Sidi were NOT separated at birth, they are two forward thinking individuals. In this first installment of the Tagging Twins, I interview Puneet Gupta … CEO of ConnectBeam. His company provides social networking / tagging services that reside inside a company’s firewall. This fact (i.e. inside the firewall) is extremely important for engineering design applications.

Okay, why the tagging twins? Both individuals are forward thinking individuals who were early advocates of social networking and tagging for the corporate enterprise.

• Nerdcast – Take 03: Puneet Gupta
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A few educational facts about this Nerdcast

1. I followed my own advice as found in my podcasting tutorial
2. The interview environment was a "quiet" conference room
   • My office had too much noise due to ventilation fans and server noise
3. My equipment was my Dell laptop, a Polycom, and Samson microphone.
   • My microphone was within inches of the Polycom
   • Puneet was on a land line, not a cell phone
   • I occasionally held the mike too close to my own mouth
4. Start to finish … the eight minute podcast took me 75 minutes

Overall, this was a good effort. When I interview Rafael … it will be better. My thanks to Puneet for being my guinea pig.

Obviously this blog focuses upon eContent … well, if your job involves web / internet resources, you must download this free eBook.  It is a great market analysis of the digital world:

• Digital Economy Fact Book

Okay, how much work can a man do before he needs a break?! Thus, use "The Google" and run this query:

• Google Query: Science Fiction Covers
• Classic Science Fiction Covers

You will get some great results. Have fun exploring!  Here are some of my favorites; I've read seven of these eight books … (click upon any image for a larger view)

 
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I’ve often said that I reverse run queries, links, etc that bring you, my visitors, to this blog. Ever wonder why and how I do that? It’s not sneaky. I use a combination of Feedburner and Typepad stats to track web traffic. I’ve attached two example screenshots to this posting. Even though the images don’t show the full url or keywords, I actually have access to them.

Now the why … the ability to reverse run interesting queries is valuable.  Everyone searches for information in different ways … in ways I would never have personally thought of.  No two brains think alike. Thus, if a keyword query looks interesting, you help me discover and learn. After all, based upon my blog page to which you linked, I generally understand the nature of your query. I then run your query and look at the first ten to twenty Google results.

Thanks lurkers … you’re also welcome to posts comments and send me emails. Many folks do!
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Many years ago I attend a Newton product demo by Apple Computer’s software evangelist, Guy Kawasaki. Although the Newton was a product "before its time", I was impressed with Guy Kawasaki. Anyhow, Guy has gone on to many other ventures … often focused upon entrepreneurship. If you have a new, somewhat radical product idea, or want to start your own company, you need to watch this webinar:

• The Art of the Start (about 40 minutes long)

In addition, the presentation is nicely indexed such that you may skip around, or come back to particularly relevant points.