Archive for July, 2008

How the 7 Deadly Sins Could Lead the United States into a Depression, not Recession.

Jul 08, 2008 34 Comments

There are some undeniable facts and historical trends that seriously indicate the economy is in much worse shape than most “experts” would have anyone believe. On top of that, throw in a dose of religious mythology and doom-saying, and we have the makings of how the seven deadly sins could lead the United States into [...]

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Chickipedia – Coolest Embed Object Ever

Jul 07, 2008 5 Comments

I’m obviously a fan of the docstoc feature to embed documents, but this just kicks its ass. Rotating hot chics in an embed from Chickipedia, GAME OVER! Random Chick – see more hot women Click on the “Random Chick” button above to rotate the images.

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Webkinz – A Great Example of Web 2.0 Supporting Product Sales

Jul 06, 2008 4 Comments

I just saw Webkinz a Ganz Website uploaded to docstoc (presentation embeded below), and I started looking into Webkinz. Who knew it was one of the most trafficked sites on the web (Alexa Ranking.) The site’s traffic increased from around 300K unique visitors in 2006 to likely over 5M uniques/month today. I haven’t yet joined [...]

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CA Hands Free Cell Phone Laws and Spoof

Jul 06, 2008 3 Comments

Last weekend we went camping with my best friend Ben Gleib for his 30th bday (check out his new video site ComedyJuice). I drove up with his good buddy Skyler Stone who was the host of “Con” on Comedy Central and is starring with Danny Devito in the upcoming feature “House Broken“. On our drive [...]

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Convert VoiceMail to Text with PhoneTag

Jul 05, 2008 4 Comments

I was reading Arrington’s post “Think Before You Voicemail” and his thoughts on how voice mail should be an obsolete method of communication. I think he makes many good points in reference to professional communication, especially when its someone you don’t know well. I also think Mike is speaking more from his own experience/habits, as [...]

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Raising Money for a StartUp Company

Jul 03, 2008 15 Comments

I’ve spent a good deal of time in the past 12 months raising money for docstoc. I thought I understood the process, but before you really go through it yourself for your own company, its hard to get the full essence of the experience while on the sidelines. I had selectively helped some folks raise [...]

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Viacom vs YouTube

Jul 03, 2008 1 Comment

You can read more about the decision Here and Here. Viacom vs YouTube – Get more Legal Forms

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Linkedin vs Facebook for Professional Connections

Jul 02, 2008 4 Comments

I’ve been an avid LinkedIn user for the past five years, since my first year in business school. I think they’ve done an amazing job in three main areas. 1.) Users Became Mass Marketers – I proudly imported all my contacts to show I had the largest network and then sent them all messages asking [...]

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Starting a Business

Jul 02, 2008 8 Comments

I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about starting businesses, helping people start businesses, and trying to start my own. When I was 7 years old I started my first business – “Loans Incorporated” – it went like this…. I never got an allowance, but for some reason I got an obscene amount of lunch [...]

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