The Origins of the Internet
How did the Internet start? Who invented such a thing? Why did it almost fail? I recently finished a fascinating book called Where the Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hefner and Matthew Lyon....
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Technology Innovation – Are We Lagging?
Are we technological laggards? Lawrence Solomon suggests we are. In his recent Financial Post column, Mr. Solomon laments that technological innovation of the past 70 years has not been of the same order of magnitude as the end of the 19th...
4 Lessons From My First Published e-Book
In my latest e-commerce experiment, I published my first e-book on Amazon. As with my AdSense experiment, this one may make me a few bucks, but that was not my primary goal. My primary goal was...
3 Lessons from Using AdSense for a Month
After my initial excitement with 2 days of earnings from Google AdSense, the month of June results for Reason for Success are much more modest. Yeah, I know. ‘Twas to be expected. However, this...
Free Images from Pixabay
Quick note today. I started using Pixabay recently for free images (including the ones in this post). According to their licensing, the images are free for commercial and non-commercial use. Great for adding to any...
Gadget Ecosystem Review
Over the past few years, I’ve been watching the evolution of gadget ecosystems emerging in a race to attract customers. These ecosystems consist of gadgets designed to work together to bring the user a...
4x the Website Traffic Doing Nothing
A strange thing happened to a website I manage. Reason for Success is a personal productivity website that attempts to integrate philosophy and science to the art of personal productivity. For over a year,...
The Web Explained
I set myself a bit of a challenge. I wanted to explain how the World Wide Web worked in the simplest terms possible. I wanted to explain it such that my very non-technology minded...
The Ultimate Web Analytics Book
Web Analytics 2.0 It’s been a while since I have found an IT book that I’ve been able to geek out over, learning tons and enjoying the writing style. Well, over the last week,...