http://www.davidlithman.com My Life Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:33:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A week or so ago, I received a free copy of Gary Vaynerchuk's book "Crush It." Here's a quick synopsis from Wikipedia: The book encourages people to determine what truly makes them happy and pursue monetizing around it on the internet. It argues that because of recent social and technological trends ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2010/02/gary-vaynerchuks-crush-it/ This morning I changed the wordpress theme for two of my sites: Tim Tebow Zone and Assassin's Creed 2. They were both pretty standard designs and kind of ugly considering the volume of traffic that they bring in. It was definitely time to update them with new looks and new ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2010/01/changed-wordpress-theme-for-2-sites/ You've all probably seen this toolbar on websites and blogs, but you might not know where it came from. The Wibiya toolbar pops up at the bottom of your screen when you visit a website that has it installed. The toolbar was built and designed to boost your site's interactive ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2010/01/the-wibiya-toolbar/ One of my Christmas presents from my wife was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on PC. I had seen all the commercials and heard everyone talking about it so I really wanted to play. I don'tplay video games alot - maybe 3 hours worth a month, but still this ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2010/01/i-got-modern-warfare-2/ So I'm playing with the new iPhone application called Dragon Dictation. It's very cool. It's a voice to text application. Basically you open the app and push the record button and you begin talking. The application automatically translates everything you say into text form. You can then take the text ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2009/12/dragon-dictation-iphone-app-review/ According to Wikipedia, a core competency is a specific factor that a business sees as being central to the way it, or its employees work. It fulfills three key criteria: 1. It provides consumer benefits 2. It is not easy for competitors to imitate ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2009/12/define-your-core-competencies/ A couple of years ago, I used to run 2 dedicated servers and a VPS. Since then, I've dropped the dedicateds (to save money) and house all my sites not on a single, powerful VPS. A VPS is nice because it's a lot cheaper than a dedicated server, and with ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2009/12/upgrading-hosting-during-the-holidays/ I know this post is a day early, but I'll be heading up to North Carolina for the holidays so I wanted to get this out before it's too late. My wife and I will enjoy Thanksgiving dinner at my parents house here in Jacksonville (though it will be served ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving/ Ubisoft's most highly anticipated game of the year finally hit the stores yesterday. Assassin's Creed 2 is a follow up to the original game, which came out in 2007. This is relevant to me because I run an Assassin's Creed 2 fansite. Traffic is up 120% over last week and ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2009/11/assassins-creed-2-drops/ Today is Veterans Day in the United States. I want to take the time to thank all of those who have served, and continue to serve, our country. I think we all know someone personally that has served in the armed forces. Both my grandfathers, who are no longer with ... http://www.davidlithman.com/2009/11/happy-veterans-day/