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If you search Huffington Post for the phrase “This article originally appeared in”, you get over 11 thousand results. That’s 11 thousand pieces of duplicate content. Of course, this is one of million examples I could have listed. Every big site, from Forbes, to Mashable, to RWW, to you name it…sais they’re doing us a favor [...]

I’ve been suspecting it for a while, but only mentioned it in confidence. But now I know…top players in the blogosphere are keeping Triberr a secret. Hehe…get it? “Top” secret? Get it? oh, nevermind…moving on… :-p Of course, I’m biased, but I dare you…I double-dog dare you to find a platform that came out in the [...]

I was just sitting there, watching it in disbelief. The new Apple commercial, there was something odd about it. It created this odd psychic friction in my mind. Something was different about this one. But what was it? Apple’s noise canceling technology, “so when the world gets noisy, calls sound better,” the voiceover proclaims. Link [...]

In any industry, there is a very small number of top tier players, a large number of those who aspire to be like them, and a very large number of those who will live vicariously through the top tier. A good example of this is NFL. There are less than 200 professional NFL quarterbacks. And yet, [...]

My Denver connection, Brian Vickery, and my girlfriend‘s favorite online buddy, Margie Clayman, invited me and Dan to join a Heckler’s Hangout. What’s a Heckler’s Hangout, you ask? Think a hornet’s nest of bloggers that’s always buzzing with tough questions. It was a blast. For a written breakdown of the hangout, check out Margie’s write [...]

I was in Denver, CO last week, and I happened upon the offices of SendGrid. Triberr uses SendGrid for its transactional emails, as do many other big platforms (Pinterest, FourSquare, etc.) Whenever you receive an email such as “you have a new follower on Pinterest”, or “you have a new friend request on FourSquare”, you’re [...]

I was in Denver, CO last week. I’ve spent a few days with Lori Ruff, Mike O’Neil, Don Cooper, and of course, Mark Fidelman. We were all on a tight schedule and there was a million things to do, so Mark and I decided to multitask. Breakfast AND an interview. We were going for that informative [...]

Triberr is a very powerful content distribution tool for bloggers. In fact, it’s so powerful that many don’t quite know how to handle its awesome power. In this post I will pose -and answer- the following questions. How do I use Triberr responsibly? How do I honor not only my tribemates, but also my audience [...]