Paul Graham on Credentials: My Thoughts

December 19, 2008

Paul Graham has another thought provoking essay this month titled, After Credentials I am going to quote extensively from Paul’s article (italics) and then add my own thoughts after each paragraph (non-italics). — A few months ago I read a New York Times article on South Korean cram schools that said, “Admission to the right [...]

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Hack: Know if Someone Read Your Email Using Bit.ly

December 17, 2008

I am finding new uses for Bit.ly all the time. The fact that you can track how many times a link has been clicked has a number of not-immediately-obvious uses. One example is a solution to a problem we all have at one time or another: wondering whether someone has read an email we sent. [...]

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LeveragingIdeas Gift Guide for Entrepreneurs and Startups 2008

December 14, 2008

I decided to take a stab at a Holiday gift guide for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, startup lovers and/or generalist geeks. Most stuff on this list is on the cheaper side understanding that this Holiday season may be more frugal than those previous. If you have additional suggestions, please add a comment below with with a [...]

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How to Install GetSatisfaction Widget on a WordPress Blog

December 12, 2008

You will notice on the right hand side a new button called “Feedback.” It’s a widget built and supported by GetSatisfaction* and I recently got to meet the founders Lane and Thor in Denver. My hope for this widget is to allow readers easier access to providing feedback and suggestions helping to make this blog [...]

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Thoughts on Tumblr, Twitter, Zentact and Bit.ly

December 11, 2008

Tumblr’s Merry Christmas. It was great to see Tumblr picked up $4.5M in a series B. I love Tumblr and maintain a Tumblelog myself. That said it’s my belief that Tumblr currently has a major shortcoming: how far behind it’s SEO (reach) is relative to WordPress. For example, I would never change this blog to [...]

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Innovating Online Bank Accounts

December 8, 2008

I have been playing around with Drop.io quite a bit recently and it got me thinking that my online bank account could really serve as my “online vault.” At least perceptually I consider the data held within to be my best protected stuff on the web. Whether true or not, I trust my bank account’s [...]

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When Does Crisis Become Opportunity?

December 7, 2008

The New York Times has an article in today’s Real Estate section containing the following: Five or 10 years from now, when the financial crisis has ended and housing prices are up smartly once more, we will look in the rearview mirror and realize that we missed a golden age for first-time home buyers. Then, [...]

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Is There a Future for Air Applications?

December 4, 2008

It seems more and more likely to me that all the buzz over building desktop applications in Adobe Air is just that: buzz. I find myself increasingly using my mobile device (iPhone) in the same capacity I would have used a desktop client, pre-iPhone. While I initially played around with running Twitter in Twhirl, an [...]

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Two Stocks I Like

November 28, 2008

At Thanksgiving my friend Dan asked what stocks I liked, if any. I don’t know stocks or trading well and I have been very negative on the market for a number years. It’s been my belief that the market is no longer suited for small-time individual investors: buy-and-hold is dead, no company can be trusted [...]

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Twittering Micro Voicemails

November 26, 2008

Yesterday I was thinking how often I receive Tweets where I want to follow-up or respond, but in a more personalized manner and/or with greater detail than is possible with only 140 characters of text. So…I was thinking that it would be great to have the ability to follow-up on a Tweet by leaving a [...]

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