Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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My Wimpy Skin For Jones Soda Company
I was checking out Jones Soda's music site last week and saw they used the Wimpy Flash-based MP3 Player. This is the player I had just built a custom skin for on my son's website. So I dropped the great…
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How To Prepopulate A Form Field With Today’s Date and JavaScript or JQuery
While many solutions offer the opportunity to store the date with each form entry, there are other times when it's not an option. We encourage our clients to add a hidden field to their site and pass this information along…
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CRM: Data Cleanliness is Next to Data Godliness
I wrote a colleague today reinforcing how important Data Cleanliness is in your CRM efforts. Says I, "Data Cleanliness is next to Data Godliness." Says She, "Then I will be in Data Heaven!" We chuckled, but it's no small...
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What’s a Mashup?
The term mashup was originally popularized in the early 2000s. While it's challenging to attribute it to a single individual, it gained prominence in the context of web applications that combined data from multiple sources to create new, integrated services.…
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Create The Problem, Then Charge For The Solution?
One of the more bizarre issues I see in the technology industry is enterprise companies that sell a solution... that requires them to sell more solutions for problems their original solution causes. Here are ten companies that sell core products…
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Blogger: CSS Style for Code on Your Blog
A friend asked me how I made the code regions in Blogger entry. I did it utilizing a style tag for CSS in my Blogger template. Here's what I added: p.code { font-family: Courier New; font-size: 8pt; border-style: inset ...
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ASP RSS Parser, Feed Reader
This weekend, I've been glued to my laptop, searching the net for web-based RSS feed readers. The reason is that I wanted to write an ASP RSS feed reader that would display the feed so that the content could be…
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Why the Movie Industry is Failing
Me and my kids went and saw King Kong yesterday. The special effects and computer-generated graphics were fantastic. I think the true test of a movie (that depends on special effects) is whether you find yourself empathizing with the computer-generated…
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What’s Your Bailiwick?
Understanding and effectively describing one's authority is paramount in sales and marketing. How a brand, person, product, or service conveys authority can significantly impact its success and reputation. bailiwick noun, pronounced [bey-luh-wik] A person's specific area of interest, skill, or…
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Blogs Heating Up
This week was a difficult week. My job is fantastic, and my peers and my clients appreciate me. For the first time, though, I believe my blog interfered with my professional relationships. Having spoken with them at length, I don't…