16.Oct.2009 Swearing is Caring
You might not have ever heard of Gary Vaynerchuk, but he’s one bad ass entrepreneur. Proprietor of Wine Library and WineLibrary TV, and a new wine-focused social network (corkd.com). Not to mention this new book (Crush It). In the world of online entrepreneurs, he’s been hitting the speaking circuit and getting plenty of press on [...]
15.Oct.2009 Too small to fail
It irks me that our government copped out of ditching a bunch of crap business by claiming they “were too big to fail.” Bull crap. Honestly I think the administration should have forced Ford (the only solvent US car maker) to buy GM and Chrysler. Ford would have gotten a great deal and would be [...]
14.Oct.2009 the Killer Craigslist
Not to be confused with the alleged Craigslist Killer. About 2 months ago CL actually took a step to highlight just why they hold all the power in the huge universal focus job boards: http://www.craigslist.org/about/job_boards_compared They focus on a few points (though some of the data is a bit old, 2000? Really, Craigslist?): Daily site [...]
30.Sep.2009 Relatively Disconnected
There’s this little company out there, making big changes. You might have heard of it. It’s called “Facebook”. In fact, you might even be reading this post within Facebook (I just blew my mind). They’ve burned 700 million dollars in venture cap and dominate the social networking scene (the only other company with growth potential [...]
21.Sep.2009 More with Less (or why I made a bacon bit sandwich for lunch)
As a college student I discovered this on hungry weekends late at night, or when the university stores were closed: as my food supply dwindled, the complexity in recipe and my overall willingness to experiment with new food pairings increased. It’s come around again. I work from home, don’t have my car with me currently [...]
03.Sep.2009 All you can learn for $99 a month
Buffet-style education? Heck yeah. The company is probably one you’ve never heard of (I hadn’t) but I already see it’s value and foundation: efficiency + quality + freedom = a better way for motivated learners to get degrees. The company is StraigtherLine (based in DC) and it provides a carte blanche approach to education for [...]
02.Sep.2009 Ben Franklin sucked at advertising
For being a pioneer in printed news papers (creating one of the first papers in PA and infamously publishing Poor Richard’s Almanac), Ben Franklin, in all modern measurements, sucked at ad-copy. I might go so far as to say that he would have been canned by any current magazine, newspaper or even blog for the [...]
30.Aug.2009 Craigslist for all mankind.
Newly Ancient (a web idol of mine) posted recently about a WIRED article concerned with Craigslist. I tried to comment over there but it seems the form is not working properly. Here’s Morgante’s original post: Wired has published an in-depth article about Craigslist that exposes the peculiar personality of the site, and its founder. I [...]
06.Aug.2009 Think outside of the Mailbox
Ok, so the USPS is failing with a deficit of about 7 billion dollars according to the Times. That’s on a total budget of around 70-80 billion (estimating based on a Heritage.org article with data from 2002). It could be way more but the data isn’t easy to track down/root out. That being said, the [...]
03.Aug.2009 Browser In/Efficiency
I love Google Chrome. It’s probably the biggest boost to my at home/at work productivity since I added more RAM to my laptop (before I did, my IBM could only handle 1 window of Firefox open at a time: this isn’t a good thing for someone who is currently blogging with no less than 10 [...]
