March 2013
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“Sell customers, not marketing.”
– Wise words from someone experienced at selling to local SMBs
March 2012
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February 2012
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July 2011
14 posts
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Google Hangouts will revolutionize political...
If you don’t know what Google Hangouts are then let me explain it really quickly. Google Hangouts is a group video chatting feature that is built into the recently launched Google+. In layman’s terms think Skype with multiple users in a call. They’ve built some awesome functionality into it. For example, there is only one large video stream and the software has intelligence to...
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Vatican 360 degree tour. Lovers, haters, and...
Click the link below and select a tour. It’s incredible. The quality is the best 360* photography I’ve ever seen.
360* Vatican Tour
Share if you enjoy!
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Where's Google making its money? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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Information: Past, Present, and Future.
The Future
The first and most dramatic change is the concept of Social News. Social news is quickly taking over our need for staying up-to-date with what goes on in the world. News is no longer being reported by journalists, now it comes from everyone. And it is being reported directly from the source to you - bypassing the traditional media channels.
But social news is much more than that....
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Don't kick the chair out from under yourself just...
With the news that Moodys is talking about downgrading US debt from its current AAA rating, it seems that everyone is panicing and not thinking rationally. I encourage you to take a step back and relax. We’re not approaching a cliff. It might be a large downhill slope, but we’re not going to fall to our death.
Look at the following chart. This shows how our nation’s debt has...
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Moody's puts U.S. ratings on review for downgrade →
A Passionate Reporter Driven to Resignation →
This is such a great read from a truly passionate individual that is now out on a quest to find himself. I should add that I completely agree with his political and fiscal beliefs.
“In 2011 a power outage is a “life” outage. Pray to God you...”
– Me
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“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime...”
– Warren Buffett
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Watch
Dramatic amateur footage from the Japanese tsunami.
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Google+ is Awesome. Facebook Maimed, Twitter...
I´ve spent the last week playing with the new Google+, and I´m here to tell you the service is pretty damn awesome. Dozens of Silicon Valley startups, especially social behemoths Facebook and Twitter, must have had some pretty fun meetings over the last several days. The title of the meetings: how the f*ck are we going to defend ourselves against this incredibly...
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About $22 Billion In Gold, Diamonds, Jewels Found...
In Southern India a story that sounds like the plot line of a Hollywood adventure is unfolding. Over the past week, on orders from the country’s Supreme Court, a panel has found a treasure estimated to be worth $22 billion in the underground vaults of a Hindu temple in Trivandrum, India.
The AP reports:
Inside the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, investigators were counting the...
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June 2011
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Why a Great Individual Is Better Than a Good Team
Anytime a CEO, quarterback, engineer or author is paid ridiculous amounts of money, dozens of investors, armchair quarterbacks, and scholars jump in to debate the value of individual contributors versus teams. Bill Taylor wrote the most recent of many interesting pieces, where he argued provocatively that “great people are overrated,” in response to Facebook CEO Mark...
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Facebook trading at $71 billion valuation in...
Facebook’s stock in now trading at a $71 billion valuation. At this valuation, the company is essentially valuing each of it’s 750 million members at just under $100. To me, that seems a little insane, especially when given the fact that many of those users are not active.
This morning news came out that GSV invested 6.6 million into Facebook which gave the social...
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Philip Morris fights planned Australian packaging...
“Tobacco giant Philip Morris launched legal action on Monday against the Australian government over the country’s plans to strip company logos from cigarette packages and replace them with grisly images of cancerous mouths, sickly children and bulging, blinded eyes.” - via The Boston Globe
I think this is quite ridiculous and Phillip Morris...
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“48% of Americans believe that another Great Depression is likely to occur in the...”
– CNN opinion research poll
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“Whether you like it or not, control of oil is the primary reason behind the...”
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A philosophical rant on society, our evolution and...
Society is the inversion of the natural system of life that has, up until the last few thousand decades, controlled the world for 4+ billion years. I think we need to ask ourselves questions about society. Why is society good? What is it doing to our evolution? What is the end? Where are we headed?
I’m not going to spend time answering all of those...
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Where have all the real investors gone?
People are irrational, which is why we see such incredible speculative investing which then creates massive bubbles. It happens time and time again. We’ve all heard about the tulip mania at which time some tulip bulbs were selling upwards of 10x the annual earnings of a skilled craftsman! I’m not suggesting that we’re in a bubble of that...
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Peak Oil: It's real and we're going to feel the...
A barrel of Brent Crude (the truest indicator of worldwide oil scarcity) sits at $118, up from $75 per barrel in July 2010 – a 57% increase in eleven months. In the U.S., the average price of gasoline is $3.69 per gallon this week, up 37% in the last year and up 100% in the last 30 months.
The pundits and politicians are responding predictably. They blame the Libyan revolution,...
Thank God for Xanax...
…because if I didn’t have it… I would actually care about the fact that I’m going to be imprisoned in a 2x2 cage that they call a “seat” for 3 and a half hours until the trains stops in Seattle. THANK YOU PFIZER!
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This is why you should build on Android (206... →
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A New VC Model That Turns Designers, Not Techies,... →
The Designer Fund angel-investor and mentoring network is meant to encourage entrepreneurial designers to get into the tech startup game.
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Large BitCoin heist and the problems plaguing the...
Close to US$500k stolen in the first major Bitcoin heist.
This is big news and it’s a blow to BitCoin. If you haven’t heard of BitCoin, then you should do some Googleing. Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer currency. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or tracks transactions.
There are major implications should BitCoin take off. The most noteworthy...
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The truth about sports and why we pretend it...
I usually don’t listen to people on YouTube ranting to the world (or so they think the world is watching, but really its a few accidental views), but this guy actually has some substance… I’m going to go so far as to say he is actually… intelligent!
Sports fans and sports critics will find substance in this. Watch it and then share this post.
So what do you think?...
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Why YouTube needs an "Interesting" button
YouTube, and a lot of other sites for that matter, are missing a very important data gathering tool… the “Interesting” button.
With LiveGather, a startup I was trying to get off the ground, I had incorporated this button into the service because I saw the great potential that it has. It leads to filtering out content that is “newsworthy” which is ultimately worth...
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I can tell you where intelligence isn't...
Wal-Mart. Take a trip to your local Wal-Mart. If you’re in a nice part of town it will probably be a 15 to 20 minute drive, but it’s worth it for what you’ll see. When you arrive on the premise, begin taking it all in for these people you’re seeing are, sadly, the average Americans of today.
For so many Americans, Wal-Mart has become the flagship landmark and go-to...
“Water-related diseases kill a child every eight seconds, and are responsible for...”
– United Nations Press Release
“We only have to capture 1 part in 10,000 of the sunlight that falls on the earth...”
– Ray Kurzweil - Transcendant Man - 2009
“All of us are convinced that within 5 years we’ll reach the tipping point...”
– Ray Kurzweil - Transcendant Man - 2009
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Electric cars are not green at all
So you think your Nissan Leaf is green do you? One of today’s common misconceptions is that electric cars are green. I hear it time and time again, “it’s great for the environment and doesn’t burn fossil fuels.” This is 100% wrong.
Understanding why electric cars are not the godsend that so many claim them to be is quite simple. Just follow this logic:
What...
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Unusual Times - Population Growth
It’s easy to forget that we are living in an abnormal period for humanity. We are living during the largest population boom our species has ever scene and it’s had and is currently having major implications.
Many forget to remember that there are roughly 6,800,000,000 people on the planet (to put it in perspective, if you’re 1 in a million, then there are 6,800 of you walking...
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“When doing a deal, always make an effort to get paid as a percentage of the...”
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The Groupon Problem
The problem with deal services such as Groupon is that their services are unsustainable for the small businesses which they serve. In order to understand why this is, you must first understand that services like Groupon are in the business of marketing. They convince the small business to drastically lower its prices for a one time promotion and then Groupon advertises it sending hundreds...
The beginning
I’ve created this tumblr because (a) Twitter is too short for some of the things I’d like to write and (b) because I hope to add value to the world through the posts to come.
