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Ideas for Launching Your Start-Up

The June issue of Inc magazine has a list of Ten Ideas for Launching Your Start-Up Right Now. The top startup ideas that interested me where environmental consultant, exam prep and tutoring, self-storage leasing, translation services, and mobile application design. The green sector is fastest growing area in the home construction and remodeling [...]

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Collaboration Built Into the Operating System

The next generation of User Interface design needs to be network and location aware. The next evolution of User Interface needs to cross the boundaries of a single personal computer and allow the seamless sharing, syncing, viewing, and collaboration of multiple mobile devices, screens, computers, and other displays. I want to share an [...]

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Social Media Top Links April 2010: Epic Zuckerpunched in Your Privacy

Here are the top links, articles, and news regarding social networking sites such as FaceBook. The big news this month was continual decay of users’ privacy on FaceBook. There has been an general outrage and growing distrust with the crew at FaceBook.

Decentralize the web with Diaspora
Facebook Board Member’s Account Hacked
Facebook Leaks IP Addresses
Facebook vs. [...]

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Favorite Tweets April 2010

There are some funny people on Twitter. Whenever I find a funny, witty, or thought provoking I usually retweet it and favorite it. Here is a small collection of recent tweets that stoop out to me.

@nickbilton: Off record chat w/ Facebook employee. Me: How does Zuck feel about privacy? Response: [laughter] He doesn’t believe in [...]

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Powned Internet Terms of Service

I’ve seen a trend in the Terms of Service legalese for social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and recently reported LinkedIn. In essence, these claim to have rights anything you publish on said services until the end of time. They have worldwide unlimited God-like rights over your photos, comments, posts, social graph, [...]

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Stupid Security Questions

I’ve always have a problem with security questions asked by banks and other financial institutions. For one part, these security questions are not really that secure and are easy to guess and reverse engineer. In 2008, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s email hacked by guessing the answers of security questions. [...]

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Social Media Etiquette

As of yet, there is no association, board, or certification process to be accredited as a Social Media Expert. I guess if you have 100 followers and you have tweeted 10,000 tweets you are an expert. As an accredited expert, I have five rules of Social Media etiquette.

Share Your Passion – Passion is [...]

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Google’s Realtime Search or Mind Reading

Google’s realtime search results are freaky fast. If you publish a new blog post, jump over to Google and search for your brand new blog post article, it would already have been indexed, cached, and showing up on Google’s results. How does Google do that? I think that in the future, Google will [...]

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Pick Any Two

Better, faster, cheaper. Pick any two
Integrity, validity, security. Pick any two
Strategy, execution, luck. Pick any two.
Profits, Passion, Purpose. Pick any two.
Manual, Error Prone, Time Consuming. Pick none!

Social Media Top Links February 2010: Google Buzz Privacy Debacle

Here are the top links, articles, and news regarding social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google Buzz. The big news this month was the announcement and initial release of Google Buzz. Google Buzz generated a lot of buzz with users, mostly because of it’s thoughtless disregard for user’s privacy.
Twitter

Robots Are Doing [...]

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