Can anyone say 10k DOW? http://ow.ly/6mX

Can anyone say 10k DOW? http://ow.ly/6mXzr

Dad quits job to watch son play in colle

Dad quits job to watch son play in college world series – Nice! – http://ow.ly/5nicZ

Dude goes to jail to get medical care –

Dude goes to jail to get medical care – wow! http://ow.ly/5nibB

Sony attacked again – http://ow.ly/4ZVhy

Sony attacked again – http://ow.ly/4ZVhy – they might as well just put everyone’s info on a public web site.

Living a Six-Figure Lifestyle on a $30,0

Living a Six-Figure Lifestyle on a $30,000 Salary – pretty smart stuff – I don’t buy new cars anymore either. http://ow.ly/4T85W

Lemonade?

Ok, so you’d think that I could get at least one post per month out on this thing wouldn’t you? Apparently not. It’s just that this blog has doesn’t ever seem to make it to the top of my mind – or the top of my list – until I have some other www.goodbiz.us articles to post, and then I think “Oh Crap – that weblogpros thing – I should post something.” Well, so much for my professional blogging career. I should probably change the name of this to Amateur Blog Slacker….but someone probably already took that one.

So anyway, last night, I ran across this movie called “Lemonade” – http://www.lemonademovie.com/ - and I really liked it. It totally goes along with my “getting out” theme for this blog. It has a bunch of people in it who were laid off during the height of the recession and they all tell their stories about how they sort of reconsidered their life and found something that they love to do and didn’t go back to working for “the man”. There’s a 30 minute or so trailer for you to watch on the site. I want to go see the whole movie sometime, but then, maybe I can wait for the DVD.

BlueWave cloud-based PBX now provides missed call notification

The BlueWave cloud-based IP PBX now provides “missed call notification” – so that you can call back leads who hang-up before they speak to someone or without leaving a voicemail. Call us for more information at 1-866-321-2583 or visit www.callitsimple.com

BlueWave has just added “missed call no

BlueWave has just added “missed call notification” emails to it’s cloud-based PBX. Nice For small businesses and contractors who need to quickly callback potential leads who hangup without speaking to anyone or who hangup on voicemail without leaving a message. http://ow.ly/4NWGO

Did I say WTF before? I’m saying it again….

So, I’m still thinking about how to (keep) post(ing) on this thing more often…maybe build a following of my own – thinking that maybe I’m a halfway decent writer and have things to say. It’s going to be a long read to get to the WTF, so stick with me here…I’m rambling a bit tonight.

I have to admit – I’ve been kind of a facebook slacker. I’ve almost kind of gotten a little sick of it….maybe I added too many friends – meaning “people that I used to know” – as opposed to “actual” friends….Maybe we need Facebook 2.0 where you can’t connect with someone unless you know 10, or maybe 20 facts about them. I have set my facebook chat status to “off line” months ago and refuse to turn it back on. Don’t get me wrong – I like facebook – it’s ok – and I like that I can connect with old friends there, but I get sick of the constant updating…maybe that’s why I only write to this blog once every couple of months – I’m either lazy or have ADD. I also read that Frances Bean Cobain quit twitter all the way back in 2009. That is, if I had the right FBC – since there are LOTS of fakes out there. But I wonder how many people have done that….and if I will end up quitting too…I guess I’m having a bit of information overload….if you’re still reading this, you’re probably not.

On the other hand, I’ve started doing the twitter thing myself, at least a little – and it’s ok – I mean, I have some people I’m following there, so go ahead – Follow Me.

Anyway – somehow, I ran across this guy named James Altucher – who was an investment banker – and has a some pretty interesting stories to tell. What can I say? Everybody loves a train wreck. You can read about how he raised 100 million dollars and screwed Yassar Arafat our of 2 million dollars in the process and then LOST the 100 million dollars – or how he thinks that owning a home is a scam -  or what it feels like to be rich. OH! And that’s what brought me to the guy in the first place – that was an interesting read. I haven’t read any of his books, which apparently aren’t any good, but for some reason, I have some kind of weird kindred feeling for the guy. I mean, a lot of that crap that he talks about, I’ve been through – dealing with trying to build a company, raising money, and failures. So if you’re interested in those kinds of stories, check him out.

On another stupid topic, but one that you’ll probably like to read, I ran across this blog by Mikalee Byerman called Me 2.0 – which is about her totally bat shit crazy divorce. Try googling “Me 2.0″ by the way – you’ll find a billion stupid links that aren’t her. At first I thought this was original for a blog – and especially for a divorce’e – but apparently not….speaking of divorce’es, remember that Happy Days Episode…hehehe…but I digress. This one was one of the top blog reads of the day and I clicked it because I was bored. If you’re bored, or in a bad marriage (or even a good one) – you’ll love her blog – start with how her marriage ended with a brick. I haven’t read it all – and may not ever get the time to focus on it long enough to, but I like that she says (or writes) “Yip”. – Not sure why, but it’s different…and different is good. Yip.

So, back to my original point…if there was one or at least back on track – I found this site called HootSuite – which allows you to post a single message to Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, and probably others – all at the same time. Obviously, if you want the post to hit twitter, you have to limit your writing to tweet size. So, I’ve been using it a little to post messages about our business (BlueWave) and our call tracking/ad tracking, hosted pbx service, and social network management service CallItSimple. It’s very useful – oh, and it also does linked-in. At any rate, it’s pretty cool – and if you want to be able to post something one time and have it go to all of your sites/networks, then this is a good thing.

The thing is, while HootSuite  is useful – it’s not really that great either – and, in my opinion FaceBook is going downhill….since they started changing the interfaces and the way stuff works, there’ve been a lot of screwed up pages, etc… that make me think that Zuckerberg doesn’t have the tight leash on that monster that he used to.

Oh, and here’s THE POINT about the state of all of these services and this ranting, rambling blog post – I GOT BILLED – by Classmates.com today – FOR TWO YEARS OF SERVICE – apparently because last year I thought it might be worth a crap. When I noticed it on my bank statement – I thought “Crap, ok. Well, I’ll go have another look – maybe I won’t be sorry…” – WRONG. Apparently Classmates.com is now “Memory Lane” – or is being branded as such – and it’s so full of ads, retro pics and vidoes, etc… that I can scarcely see the classmates PART of the website anymore. I’d LOVE to hear from someone younger (or older) to see if this design is working for ANYONE – or if they’re just surviving on the auto-renewable subscriptions that some of us idiots were stupid enough to shell out for. My guess is the latter – and almost sixty dollars for that piece of crap. REALLY?!?! Really. WTF? I mean, the publishing of yearbooks is cool, but what will it take for these guys to realize that this thing that they’ve got going – isn’t going to “go” anywhere unless they re-invent themselves AGAIN….It’s sad really – that they probably COULD have BEEN facebook if they would have got it together sooner with a better site…sigh….c’est la vie – on to the next thing I guess….I’m just waiting for the FB empire to crumble at the hands of the next hotshit young web developer with a better idea.

So, that was really my WTF for the day. I realize that this isn’t too PC, and that my blog isn’t as professional, well formatted, well organized or even as grammatically correct as either James or Mikalee’s, but it is what it is, for now at least. I did decide today to stop calling it “weblogpros” – which was probably stupid to begin with and sounds even stupider now – ahhh hindsite. At any rate, this blog is now mine and about me and my thoughts and rants – and hopefully, sometime next quarter maybe, I’ll put in some better formatting, more pictures, videos, and all of the stuff that make a bad blog better.

Cool things happening today. Google anno

Cool things happening today. Google announced it’s +1 program – it’s answer to the Facebook “Like” button. This will immediately benefit ad-words users, and if you don’t know what it is or how to set it up, you should get in touch with us at http://www.callitsimple.com for a social network management review. HP Also announced today their connection with Google CloudPrint – which is also very cool. Happy to see more and more services being driven to the cloud.