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Re: The economy of Friending

Allen Harkleroad — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:51:17 -0000

While I do have a fairly large number of "friends" on at least one social media site, we as a group do have much of the same likes in terms of things we share with each other. Many of these friends do live in other countries besides the US, but all speak English. Perhaps my friending is on of those small percentages of people actually build a community of people around similar thoughts and likes. (shrug) I loved the article but don't agree with it 100%, I do however wholeheartedly agree with the respect for others.

Re: The 4G Portal.com

Allen Harkleroad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:05:56 -0000

Sprint overcharged my small (US) company for over $50,000.00. We caught them doing it and now they refuse to refund the over-payments. You can read the full story at http://www.sprint-really-sucks.com

I also wrote an open letter to Dan Hesse the Chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel. It is a good read so please consider reading the letter.

http://www.sprint-really-sucks.com/open-letter-...

Re: Sleazy measures for sad times: VC-backed Cash4Gold attracts complaints

Allen Harkleroad — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:27:49 -0000

Seems Weronika Ciwr has been busy on the net with the same freaking defamation email. I can't wait for the Streisand effect to kick in. (We got one to for pulling direct quotes from consumerist.com). So lame....

Re: Sprint’s WiMax now ready for lift-off

Allen Harkleroad — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:01:15 -0000

Sprint overcharged my small (US) company for over $50,000.00. We caught them doing it and now they refuse to refund the over-payments. You can read the full story at www.sprint-really-sucks.com

Re: Sprint's Instinct, a shameless iPhone rip-off?

Allen Harkleroad — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:07:26 -0000

Re: Verizon to Launch QChat, Compete with Sprint

Allen Harkleroad — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:58:41 -0000

Shouldn't take much to beat Sprint silly.
Sprint overcharged my small (US) company for over $50,000.00. We caught them doing it and now they refuse to refund the over-payments. You can read the full story at www.sprint-really-sucks.com

I also wrote an open letter to Dan Hesse the Chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel. It is a good read so please consider reading the letter.

www.sprint-really-sucks.com/open-letter-dan-hes...

Re: Sprint’s Samsung Instint now available for, yeah, $129

Allen Harkleroad — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:47:55 -0000

Sprint overcharged my small (US) company for over $50,000.00. We caught

them doing it and now they refuse to refund the over-payments. You can

read the full story at http://www.sprint-really-sucks.com

I also wrote an open letter to Dan Hesse the Chairman and CEO of Sprint

Nextel. It is a good read so please consider reading the letter.

http://www.sprint-really-sucks.com/open-letter-...

Re: Sierra Wireless Compass 597 EV-DO USB Modem on Sprint

Allen Harkleroad — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:39:53 -0000

Sprint overcharged my small (US) company for over $50,000.00. We caught them doing it and now they refuse to refund the over-payments. You can read the full story at www.sprint-really-sucks.com

I also wrote an open letter to Dan Hesse the Chairman and CEO of Sprint Nextel. It is a good read so please consider reading the letter.

www.sprint-really-sucks.com/open-letter-dan-hes...

Re: 2008/02/22/popularo/

Allen Harkleroad — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:15:12 -0000

I do hope that popularo gets traction and takes users, traffic and influence away from Digg.

Re: 2008/02/28/mixx-facebook-app/

Allen Harkleroad — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:33:15 -0000

I think it an excellent strategic move on Mixx's part. Mixx has rapidily gained marketshare in the social news niche. I see more great things coming from Mixx in the days ahead.

Re: 2008/03/02/nine-inch-nails-album-download-free-ghosts/

Allen Harkleroad — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:40:05 -0000

I love seeing musicians embracing new ways to distribute their work, and cutting out the middleman (RIAA). Let's face it the CD/Album business model is dead. It's time musicians used their music online to drive ticket and merchandise sales and to keep a bigger piece of the profit for themselves.

Re: 2008/03/02/predictify-freakanomics/

Allen Harkleroad — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:45:10 -0000

Man this is great. I am a big Freakonomics fan, I wonder if the pay to answer is worth the effort though?

Re: Sprint MP6950? HTC Touch Pro? Maybe…

Allen Harkleroad — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:55:46 -0000

Re: Top 142 Social Marketing Blogs on the Web

Allen Harkleroad — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:59:41 -0000

Thanks for the mention of Favorite {fvrit} Blog, what a pleasant surprise!
Allen

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Re: Google changes its monetization strategy toward a Microsoft one?

Allen Harkleroad — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:55:55 -0000

Funny thing you should mention not having Google ads on your blog because you don't want Google to make money off of your content or be forced by Google to make money from your site. I ended up pulling the Google Ads off of Designer Today and several of my other content sites because of that exact same reason. I still run AdSense on some of our sites but none that have my unique content on them. I am glad someone finally made mention of Google monetizing their content, or being forced to do so.

Re: No HD local channels for Scoble (Hint: there’s the Internet as a workaround)

Allen Harkleroad — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:31:36 -0000

I myself have been waiting for a broad roll out of HD on DirecTV or even our local cable company. Heck I get NBC/CBS/etc from both coasts plus local news plus everything on DirecTV but I have been told there are only like 6 HD channels out of the hundreds offered. My local Cable company is just about as bad, the offer only a handful of selected HD channels. It just plain sucks. I have a huge Sony TV with HD, all my AV equipment supports HD, just no HD signal to watch for the most part. it is a conspiracy by TV manufactures and the Networks I tell ya!

Re: I hate eggplant

Allen Harkleroad — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:51:59 -0000

Eggplant, Yuck, i can sympathize with you.

Also Happy Birthday, i just hit 41 last month ;-)

Re: Microsoft researchers make me cry

Allen Harkleroad — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:11:49 -0000

Robert,
I love and hate this kind of stuff. I so want to know what could get you emotional over at Microsoft. It must be something extraordinary. I hope you get the scoop and post it before big media breaks it. - Allen

Re: The most important Google Tool for businesses (that you probably have never used)

Allen Harkleroad — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:41:39 -0000

I've been using the keyword tool for a long while to find keywords that I might be missing when optimizing sites. Good tool.

Re: Google still has a sense of humor

Allen Harkleroad — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:35:58 -0000

Good stuff Robert, Microsoft's "Chrome" (1998) was a couple years after ClubIE (1996). Remember those days? ;-)

Re: First hour with Google’s new browser

Allen Harkleroad — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:16:22 -0000

Yeah it is fast and luckily we design our websites to work both in FF and IE, so they all look great in Chrome.

Re: Social network advertising: not your father’s banner ad

Allen Harkleroad — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:10:38 -0000

Bah, banner ads are going anywhere for a good long while, especially on non-social sites. Too much branding to give them up. I still see excellent CTR on plain ol' static image banners. As long as they continue to produce good revenue I am not going to dispense with them.

Allen

Re: Testing out the latest Windows Live Writer

Allen Harkleroad — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:18:05 -0000

The latest version of LiveWriter is slick, I am so liking it. The formatting tools could use a bit of tweaking, however LW 2009 is definitely a great tool and keeps getting better. Has anyone else tried the Twitter plugin? Good stuff!

Re: What’s the best new productivity tool you’ve adopted in past year?

Allen Harkleroad — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:13:09 -0000

For me it's a yellow legal pad and a pencil (cheap productivity tools).

Re: The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Allen Harkleroad — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:04:05 -0000

I've seen some strange behaviour on Digg.com in just the last couple of days. One item I dugg hit 290+ Diggs, made the popular category and even #2 on the front page of Digg.com in less than two hours the story was evidently auto buried even though the item had over 116 comments, and the item was very active up until it was buried.

Something is amiss at Digg.com that's for sure.

Re: I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things

Allen Harkleroad — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:32:02 -0000

This is exactly the sort of reason why I prefer asp.net applications such as BlogEngine.Net. PHP seems to get hacked a *lot* more than asp.net applications. Don't get me wrong I like FOSS, but refuse to use PHP as a web server platform.

Re: Clearwire-Sprint WiMax Merger: Few Hurdles Left Until Closing; Termination Fees Are High

Allen Harkleroad — Mon, 19 May 2008 23:43:01 -0000

Sprint overcharged our small company over $50,000.00. We caught them and asked for the over-payments to be refunded. they have refused. Read the full story on www.sprint-really-sucks.com

Re: Sprint Looking To Customer Service For Redemption

Allen Harkleroad — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:59:51 -0000

Re: Sprint Nextel Sells Its Towers; Raises Around $670 Million

Allen Harkleroad — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:43:53 -0000

Broke is as Broke does, next thing you know Sprint will be unloading inventory on eBay as it breaks itself into smaller and smaller pieces.

Re: Sprint's iPhone Rival Is Cheaper, But Is It Better?

Allen Harkleroad — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:47:17 -0000