by Mark Mason | Jan 10, 2008 | Gadgets
In January 2008, I was looking at the new Motorola RAZR2 Luxury Edition cellphone and could not believe my eyes. The special edition RAZR2 had gone completely over the top with 18-karat and 24-karat gold-plated accents on a black metal finish. It had pin stripes on...
by Mark Mason | Jan 10, 2008 | Gadgets
During the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2008, the Today Show featured a product that caught my attention: the GlowCap. It was a smart pill bottle cap made by a company called Vitality that could communicate wirelessly with the internet to report when it was...
by Mark Mason | Jan 7, 2008 | Gadgets
In January 2008, I was watching the Consumer Electronics Show coverage from Las Vegas and wishing I was there. CES was the annual tech spectacle where companies showed off their most impressive hardware, and that year Panasonic stole the show with the world's largest...
by Mark Mason | Jan 3, 2008 | Miscellaneous
Some of the best content on the internet has nothing to do with business. In January 2008, I shared my dad's potato soup recipe on the blog, and it remains one of those posts that reminds me why I started blogging in the first place: to share things that matter to me....
by Mark Mason | Jan 3, 2008 | Blogging Software
In January 2008, I wrote a technical tutorial about how to add FeedBurner's FeedFlare social sharing buttons to a b2evolution blog that was running multiple blogs from a single installation. This was one of those nitty-gritty hacks that early bloggers needed because...
by Mark Mason | Jan 1, 2008 | Miscellaneous
On New Year's Day 2008, I published my ten-step plan for losing weight. This was one of my two resolutions for the year, and being an engineer, I could not help but approach it with analytical rigor. The core premise was simple: weight loss is not rocket science, it...
by Mark Mason | Dec 26, 2007 | Web Monitization
In December 2007, one of the ways people talked about making money online was through the sale of eBooks. Being the curious engineer that I am, I decided the best way to learn about this was to investigate directly. So I bought an eBook about making money with eBooks....
by Mark Mason | Dec 25, 2007 | Miscellaneous
Right around Christmas 2007, my buddy Tom sent me an email about a neat way to teach kids about how the Earth revolves around the sun. His idea was simple: visit a website that showed real-time satellite imagery of the Earth with the daylight and shadow terminator...
by Mark Mason | Dec 25, 2007 | Announcements
Merry Christmas from Late Night Internet Marketing. The original version of this post from December 25, 2007, was just a simple holiday greeting, and honestly, that is exactly what it should have been. A Christmas Tradition This blog was barely a week old when...
by Mark Mason | Dec 24, 2007 | Gadgets
In December 2007, I wrote about how much I loved my RIM BlackBerry 8800. At the time, it was the ultimate gadget for a tech-loving engineer with a day job. I could do almost anything with it: email, web browsing, calendar management, and even some basic document...
