Flash...Not happening Adobe

All too often this box appears.
Back in the day when Adobe developed for Apple FIRST, things actually worked. They got lazy, got into acquiring the competition mode and stopped developing their own quality software. Sad, but true.

So Adobe, how about getting your CEO to come out of the caves and oversee some development teams that will develop your OWN version of software, not piggy-backing on the development efforts of others.

Get back to Old-school software creation in-house that works.

Mike

WIN Girl's Night Out - Scottsdale 2/11/2010

Well folks it was an amazing evening out in Scottsdale last night. Maria Simone, Karen Russo, Jennifer Rundall & Debbie Allen hosted an event in Scottsdale AZ last evening to introduce some ladies to The WIN www.thewinonline.com

Keep your eyes and ears open for one of these events in your city! And don't miss the big get together in LA at the Westin in April! Check out www.thewinonline.com for more information and you can find them on facebook as well.

Yours truly was in attendance and I must say that being the only man amidst a sea of lovely ladies...well guys eat your hearts out!!! Yes it was a lot of fun for all.

We had a full room and some amazing vendors stayed as well at the Scottsdale Home & Gardening Expo Center which is normally open Friday, Saturday & Sunday, but they stayed to share their wares with the attendees.

CEO Paula Fellingham captivated the audience with a wonderful sharing about The WIN and what it's doing to help mobilize women and get them into connecting and sharing with each other as well as bringing families closer together.

Lauren Solomon one of the show hosts from NYC was snowed in and unable to make it to the event. You can see her website at www.lsimage.com she was very much missed from the event.

Below you'll see some photos that I took and wanted to share with all. I hope you enjoy.

Jennifer Wilkov & Maria Simone

Suzanne Musa & Karen Russo

Michael Murdock

Maria Simone talks Passion & Prosperity

Paula Fellingham sharing heartwarming stories

Maria Simone captivates the audience

Debbie Allen shamelessly promoting :)

Karen Russo sharing her book with us.

Maria Simone & her NEW BOOK!!!! PREORDERS!!

Smiling Coach Suzanne Musa

Show Host Norma Strange networking after the event

Maria Simone, Karen Russo, Jennifer Wilkov, Paula Fellingham & Debbie Allen
WIN Show Hosts & The CEO stopping for a picture.

Lauren Solomon was snowed in, in NYC so she did not get to attend.

And the lovely Jennifer Rundall was sick with the flu. Get well soon Jen!!!

That's all for this posterous session!! I love this site!!

See you all soon somewhere on the web.

Michael

Sponsored Tweets...or...The Magpie

To be honest, I like both.

Okay, so when you have a second go and check this out as everyone and their cousin is asking me how to make some additional income on the web. One surefire way to do it is to tweet things that people find interesting and after a while you'll see opportunities that offer you the ability to have someone pay you for your words. Yes, that is a run-on sentence :)

Anyhow check these folks out as they're pretty good:

SponsoredTweets referral badge

And if they're not your cup of tea, then check these guys out as they've actually had to send me a 1099 from income earned last year which blew me away! I never knew that tweeting could be so profitable. Just so you know, the Magpie has been more controversial, but in the end out of nowhere it delivers cash to my paypal account in such a way that one would say screw the controversy. Yes, there is language used in my postings that comes from the gut. :)

Launch viral advertising campaigns on Twitter with Magpie!

I think that's all to say about this for now. More another time. Enjoy your day!! Tweet On!

Michael

http://www.docmurdock.com

Apple Announces iPad®

I love it when the company that I admire so much comes out with something so cool. The event was today and...WOW. Let the images speak for themselves. Images are property of gdgt.com All rights reserved.

I had to laugh when I saw this one above.

Truth hurts. Netbooks really suck. Plus they run Microsoft Windows. OUCH.

That is a sweet looking device. The grin on Steve's face says it all. He's pleased with this thing.

Thin is in. 0.5in thin. WOW.

You can change the home screen background to be any picture you want. So that must mean that this is
coming to the iPhone as well. That will be cool.

Here's facebook running full screen.

NYTIMES is a free app that you can read the paper with. Yes turn it sideways as well to read specific sections
or portrait style (up and down) to read the whole paper at once and zoom to sections with multi touch.

Full size keyboard for typing on. WOW. Behind that you'll need to know is two-pane email! Look at your
list of emails and on the right side see the messages. Very quickly get to your email with this setup.

Batterylife...WOW. A month of standby time!!! Holy Smokes!

Games...needless to say I think that there will be a full screen version of Bejeweled Blitz for this and OMG
that will be something.

MLB.com showing LIVE VIDEO FEED!!

My thoughts to Amazon...Break out the Kindle Tombstone. Color is in, B&W is OUT and the iBooks store will
compete with you folks bigtime. Smart move would be to reformat your books to work on iPad and expand
your revenue stream that way.

$9.99 for these apps. WOW that is an amazing deal.

Have a USB port waiting for this right now!! Bring it!!

This is good to see that Apple stuck with AT&T. Nice job. Sorry Verizon. Not so fast boys. I guess that
Steve is not happy with what he's seeing from them and so they'll have to wait a bit for anything in that regard.

This is the finishing touch (yes PUN intended). The price of this baby is sweet!! I can feel that $829 model
already gracing my fingertips in the next 90 days. After all, I do deserve a good birthday present, even though
that's March 18th, but still. :)

That's all for now. Glad to see what Apple has done. This is SWEET!!! And it smokes every netbook on the market
for screen resolution & ease of use.

Happy Wednesday!!

Mike

Craigslist fake emails coming around

See the email below. My Apple Mail junk filter caught this (Entourage DID NOT).
Yes it is junk, but the concern is that some will find this look legal and will click the link. Notice that the link has nothing to do with Craigslist. See the yellow band with the pocs... that's the fake site that when you click the link you'll be dropped onto which will ask you for private information. It's called a Phishing email because that's what it's doing. FISHING for a sucker to click the link, fill in the info and have their account stolen.

So wanted you to see that this is now coming around. If you see one, delete it and then using your webbrowser, just in case, change your password in your craigslist.org account.

Best regards,

Michael

Watch out for South Korea Spam emails

A new breed of 'steal your login' emails is making its way around the circuit.

These are coming from a south korean domain/hosting company out there.

I tracked one today that was trying to get me to download a Microsoft Outlook.exe file to run on my computer to give them access to it.

Sorry boys, I use a Macintosh and Apple Mail!! 

So beware of anything coming from your domain name that the email reads as follows:

Subject: For the owner of the insert your email address here
To: your actual name

Dear user of the yourdomainname.com mailing service!

We are informing you that because of the security upgrade of the mailing service your mailbox (yourname at yourdomain.com) settings were changed. In order to apply the new set of settings click on the following link:

(that next link is to a file that will land on your pc and infect it nastily)

and then there's a fake letter ID# after this.

Don't click any links, simply delete the message and save yourself a world of trouble.

Best,

Michael Murdock, CEO
DocMurdock.com - Internet Business Consulting

So what is an Evangelist?

Well...there are a number of definitions for this, but if you go to Webster's (not the little guy from TV, but the dictionary) you find the definition of Evangelist to be:

e van ge list |iˈvanjəlist|noun1 a person who seeks to convert others to the Christian faith, esp. by public preaching.• a layperson engaged in Christian missionary work.• a zealous advocate of something : he is an evangelist of junk bonds.2 the writer of one of the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John) :St. John the Evangelist.

The one we're looking at in this case is that of:

"A Zealous advocate of something" meaning someone who speaks of a product or service constantly or consistently, and even potentially raves about it.

As in Guy Kawasaki is an evangelist of Apple Computer. Or Guy Kawasaki is a Macintosh Evangelist. Not sure whether you're for both or for one now Guy, you'll have to comment on your own.  I evangelize ProsperityCart. Why? because they deliver service and support and a product that works as described in their documentation which they constantly update.

For myself, I don't fixate on any one product unless of course I use it for my business or in daily life. If I do so and I am pleased with the way it performs and the support that I get when I require support (Yes it does happen), then I will speak favorably of a product and never expect anything from them. However when a product does not work right, inhibits client usage and is lacking in support...the last thing you want me doing is Evangelizing your product because that has the effect of King Midas in reverse. No gold here, only KA-KA. (technical term)

What I will NEVER do is consult with a product company to allow them to fix their product using my suggestions for improvement and do it completely and totally free. That's not how I roll. There are times when I will reward a company with suggestions or observations and expect nothing in return. In fact there is ONE company that I do this with often and that's APPLE. Why? Because I worked for Steve Jobs, and I feel a loyalty to a platform that I began using back in 1978.

When you ask someone to help you fix an issue with your company's flagship product and you say to them "Well I'm not in a position to be paying for your suggestions", stop what you asking and find the person who is responsible, can write the checks and allow them to  make an ovation of an engagement. This way we don't waste each other's time. You see when you perform the asking, you're really asking for a consulting engagement. If you're not in a position to be authorizing payment for the engagement...you should not be asking for the engagement.

Granted there are times when I will post things on twitter and facebook as hints to companies that there are problems they may wish to examine and fix to improve their impression in the eyes of their customers. I may hint at specific things that need attention in specific areas when I've used a service and its failed to perform at expected levels. However, I am not someone your company can call and say "Hey I saw your postings and so can you tell me all the places we need to fix our stuff?" (basically so I can reap the rewards of this because we screwed up and I am trying to cover my ass and I can't believe you caught this stuff, And by the way we appreciate you giving us that info, but we can't pay you for it".

That's just comical and I will publicly call you on it. Do yourself a favor, grab the company checkbook with the CEO in tow and call me and then start that pen moving across a check with a nice respectable dollar amount for my time, and we can go over your product top to bottom and discuss how to fix it. What's respectable? Start at $5,000 an hour and we'll cap it at $25,000 for 5 hours of brain dump. After that we can go from there and I'll knock $500 off per hour to save you some money.

I will do a favor to the company which I am referring to laughingly in this posting. I will not post your company name here. I'll leave that to others to do the research and piece together the answer from my tweets and facebook postings.

If your CEO wants to engage my services to help you better understand your product, your market and the solutions to your current problems we can discuss such things. However, that does not mean I will evangelize your product. That takes time and trust and so far...we're not there.

Lastly, if I have contacted you on behalf of a client to get a refund for your product being oversold and under delivered to that client, please don't insult me or my client by offering a refund that is basically 50% less than what has previously been offered to them. That's ludicrous and the only thing they'll get from me on your behalf is a referral to a law office for their case and a lot of primetime blog, twitter, facebook, and other social network time bashing your product until it seriously hurts your bottom line.

Service is about ensuring "Customer Satisfaction". If your product is not doing that, please don't ask me to be an affiliate, an evangelist, or even to mention your product. It will not happen in a positive light.

To people like Guy who I admire and respect: Thanks for paving a great road to ride on.

Sincerely yours,

Michael Murdock

AAA for your website!! I hate my webmaster!! :)

Greetings. How many times have you had a problem with your website, tried to find someone to help you and there's nobody around? How many of those times did you have someone on retainer and they were not reachable? Did you ever wish you could call AAA and have them come and rescue your website? Well we're NOT AAA, but we're pretty close. http://www.ihatemywebmaster.com is the site to visit. We're basically AAA without the noisy towtruck. We're here to get in, find out what's wrong with your site and get you back on the Internet (Information Superhighway) fast. Right we're offering some specials you need to know about. Since this is an emergency services offering, we're limiting the number of things that we do to those that need instant fixes. Need a form created, need a page aligned, need things done that you can't do and can't find someone to do, we'll do them fast. We're offering 3 types of "policies": 3 Month, 6 Month, 12 Month and just like your insurance policy we also offer a payment plan. So if you subscribe, then before the next payment decide you don't need this, you can cancel and you won't be charged anything further. So when you have a second, check out http://www.ihatemywebmaster.com and see our offerings there. We have discounts on the FULLPAY products until XMAS Day. We can only take a limited number of clients and provide the high levels of service you expect, so get in early and don't be left out! Merry Christmas to all and Happy New Year. We look forward to serving you and making your 2010 one of no website downtime.

Michael Murdock, CEO

DocMurdock
480-659-8406 Office
480-335-9008 Cell
ceo@docmurdock.com

http://www.docmurdock.com/

Proprietary And Confidential DocMurdock © 2003