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Re: Joseph Leonard to open

taterhead — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:12:10 -0000

Looks great. We'll try to get by there this weekend.

Re: Au Pied de Cochon

taterhead — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:22:03 -0000

I was reviewing your blog for our trip up to NYC next week and found this about Au Pied de Cochon. My favorite place ever and had the same experience with too much food!

I need to read GG more to keep up. Can't wait to get up there next week. Thanks for all of your help.

Gregg Smith

Re: Cloud Based Messaging

taterhead — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:50:58 -0000

Installation issues on Win XP. Mostly due to my old laptop and Windows.

I tried it again to investigate the issue so I could reply. I had to edit the registry and it appears to be working now. Ahh windows.

I'll try it with Google Reader and let you know if it works.

Re: Cloud Based Messaging

taterhead — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:08:32 -0000

Regarding an offline twitter...can you pull your twitter RSS feed into Google Reader and use Gears to read offline? I would try but I've given up getting Gears installed properly on my laptop.

Re: How to Wow For Less than $3.00

taterhead — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:41:46 -0000

Todd:
Sell me on a subscription to Angie's list. I've looked hard at it but can't get past my reliance on trusted word of mouth recommendations from friends.

Thanks
Gregg Smith
@greggwitt

Re: The Fedex Takeover

taterhead — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:07:22 -0000

FedEx is legendary for losing a lot of VC money. The firm I worked for here in Memphis has/had one of the original business plans (but they didn't invest). FedEx went through a couple of down rounds, but Fred somehow still stayed on top. I'll dig around for more.

Re: The Fedex Takeover

taterhead — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:04:13 -0000

I'll see if some of my fedex friends on twitter from here in Memphis can look into that (read this @mattceni?)

Re: Youtubing

taterhead — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:57:10 -0000

Fred (and others interested in the online video segment) check out fivedollarcover.com ...a series of 5-8 minute shorts about the Memphis music scene. Notable artists include Amy Lavere and Snowglobe/Tim Regan (there are some bad ones too, so be warned). Craig Brewer of Hustle and Flow did them and while the acting isn't award-winning, I think its a pretty unique take. MTV is running them Friday nights at 11 and they are all free online. AT&T paid for them.

flipsidememphis.com is a documentary video site with more background on the artists, locations and other assorted Memphis stuff. I was skeptical, but have to admit I'm impressed. Good music with a story produced for the web.

Re: Fring Launches a Better Twitter Mobile Experience for non-iPhone Users

taterhead — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:00:49 -0000

i have fring for my winmo blackjack II but it won't stay up in the background. i've looked at every setting. gtalk function for me is critical but fring won't cut it if i have to log in every 5 minutes (which takes 3 minutes). unless this changes with the new version, i'll stick with m.slandr.net. I'll give it a shot though.

Re: Yelping My Way Through LA

taterhead — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:34:22 -0000

I was going to bring up chowhound. Used to spend hours and hours searching and creating google maps of locations for travels in the US and Europe. Still have a huge note book for Scotland.

You are correct that Chowhound is multiples deeper than Yelp--for many more locations. I really don't think Yelp would even know about Wiley's Tea room on in Harray on Orkney Island. Passionate about unbiased reviews as well...Yelp has a lot of bias in my opinion.

I use yelp in Memphis quite a bit and review everywhere I eat, but I go to Chowhound if I want to find something under the radar.

Re: 6 Kickass WebApps

taterhead — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:17:14 -0000

Pretty great looking list of apps. Save drop.io, I've never heard of them. I'll use prezi and feedweaver immediately.

thanks, Bobby.

Re: Path Mapping - Career Guidance Powered by Path 101 - How to use LinkedIn as part of your job search: Networking and getting a job with LinkedIn

taterhead — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:48:14 -0000

Great advice--especially about reaching out to those in my network whom I could get to know better. I'll do that.

LinkedIn has been vital for my search. The ability to research the companies I'm talking to and the people throughout that company is a huge benefit that I have over someone not on LinkedIn. I can look up someone's past or find a common connection and get impressions about the person or the company.

Great post.
Gregg

Re: Why I Haven’t Worked an ERP Gig

taterhead — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:46:21 -0000

I had someone share an erp story this morning...how it almost killed a $100M business, but a 200k accounting package implementation in a much more technically complex setting was a huge success. Another story of a 6 month, $500k implementation not complete after 2 years and $2 million is another...I've evaluated them, but never implemented. There's a reason.

Re: Cwabs! - One of my coworkers has a side business making...

taterhead — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:19:00 -0000

Is he making ROMs?

http://www.synergyteamworkout.com/

Those babies go for 15k!

Re: The Valuation Blues (aka How FAS157 Is Tortuous)

taterhead — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:12:32 -0000

We did the same thing. We issued tax basis financial statements that allowed us to use LCM. This was 4 years ago though (got back in to running companies).

Re: Boxee

taterhead — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:31:24 -0000

Love one too, Fred. Thanks

@taterhead
taterhead at gmail . com

Re: Thinking About Groups

taterhead — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:49:49 -0000

Jay-
What is the alternative to getting 50 emails/day or reading the updates/communications on the ning.com site? I'm struggling with this too.

Re: Why there will never be "One Ring to Rule Them All" in web services for groups

taterhead — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:44:40 -0000

i'm looking at ning for a group of 100 (50 couples). i've found 15 or so of those 100 on facebook. if they did groups (mainly events and group communication) well, facebook would get 85 more profiles. I'm looking at paying for ning's premium service to get rid of the ads, but there's no good event management or managed communication. We need a calendar too...possibly the best solution is google groups for email, google calendar and eventbrite. It would be really nice to be contained in one system.

Re: Velib Is Awesome

taterhead — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:01:34 -0000

Why doesn't the free market deal with this? We rented bikes easily all over Montreal. You need a certain density and bike-friendliness (lanes, paths, etc).

A good blog on urban biking with a nod to Copenhagen: http://www.copenhagenize.com/

Re: A Twitter Add-on That I Need

taterhead — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:37:59 -0000

And one I need is twitter tags. I wish Twitters "Bio" section was organized as tags like Facebook's "Interests". Tough to search for dad healthcare cfo foodie fixed gear bike riders in Memphis or Atlanta with tweetscan. Not that twitterers like that are interesting or anything.

Re: A Twitter Add-on That I Need

taterhead — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:05:23 -0000

I use an RSS feed from tweetscan in Netvibes to monitor @taterhead (and a few other relevant-to-me terms) in twitter. I think profilactic.com is working on an autoclipping feature that could pull similar information into a feed.

Re: Mixtapes - A Hobby That Just Won't Quit

taterhead — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:33:31 -0000

Muxtape is so good. However, it's obviously getting hammered right now.

(edited for really, really poor grammar)