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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

That summer, this bumpkin/badass former governor from Vermont running for president (Howard Dean) had found this guy Joe Trippi to run his presidential campaign. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. Barack Obama would not be president today without the path the Dean web team blazed.

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Milking the kush cow – how to benefit from the weed boom from afar

The Next Web

As more and more states have loosened legislation — or gone full whack and decriminalized for personal use like in Colorado, Washington, and Vermont — the industry surrounding the sale of the plant has blossomed from just growers, cutters, and dispensaries, to a… This story continues at The Next Web.

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The Montana Future In A Dream

Feld Thoughts

All of the computers in the house are too old to use a web browser. I’m screaming at my parents about my phone, my computer, and they are just staring at me. I run in the house to try to find a computer to log in to Google and figure out the dial-in number. Agitated, I walk into a big room full of people.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Tool: Adobe Sitecatalyst URL: Omniture.com/sitecatalyst What it does: Segments traffic to determine “high-value” Web visitors and offers real-time analytics. The breakdown: “We get most of our Facebook data by marrying up Facebook Insights data with our Web analytics from Adobe Sitecatalyst. Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Web Services.

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The Ultimate Office for Athletes and People Seeking a Healthier Lifestyle

David Teten

According to research done by the Vermont Board of Education , exercise is not only healthy for you, but it also increases your productivity. For example: - Camspace , an ff portfolio company, allows everyday objects to control a computer’s actions through use of standard web-cams.

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How to Make Mobile eCommerce Convert: What???s Effective In Mobile Design Right Now

ConversionXL

In this example, Tommy received an email from Amazon Local about a weekend getaway in Vermont, and these were the series of screens he received in order to complete the purchase. If your business is successful today in the desktop web, you have a set of assumptions about do’s and donts for online shopping.

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How To Identify & Improve Crappy UX Issues

ConversionXL

This is the conclusion from researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology who used eye tracking software and infrared cameras to monitor student’s eye movements as they scanned different elements of educational web pages such as menu, logo, images, social icons and the like. image credit.