With one hand behind his back
April 13, 2007
Well…sort of. This is a real young go getter:
How’s that for inspiration?
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The hostility between young and old mature entrepreneurs
April 12, 2007
David over at Mind Petals shared a video of his presentation at the New York Technology Meetup from last September. The video, which you’ll see after the jump, is a great intro for MP and anyone that hasn’t heard of his network/community, but I found the last three or so minutes the most intriguing.
Not All Ad Networks Are Created Equal
April 9, 2007
If you’re an internet astronaut who someday hopes to have his or her site rocket to the stars, then at some point you’ll probably be considering your options when it comes to monetizing your site. For some that means taking any and all advertisers regardless of the “punch-the-monkey” types ads. For other with a bit more pride in their creations and who don’t want to see it whored out to any old advertiser there are really only a handful of quality advertising networks. Here is a list of those networks and how they break down.
5 reasons why I blog
April 9, 2007
Adnan invited me to be a part of this meme thing-a-ma-jigger, where I list the reasons why I blog in hopes of continuing the chain with other bloggers. So here we go. 5 reasons why I blog:
1) Networking. To be honest, I would be in a completely different situation than I am today if YGG didn’t exist and I hadn’t the opportunity to meet and work with all of the people I have over the past year or so. Chances are I’d still be working the same 9-5 job making an extremely stable income……hey, wait a second…
2) All the cool kids do it. Blogs enable you to associate yourself with the big names in just about any industry and break the barriers of communicating with them. Not knowing what a blog is or having your own in certain circles is a quick way to label yourself as an outcast.
3) It’s one of the easiest ways to build my personal brand. Being recognized as an expert in a certain field is essential in labeling yourself as a professional. Blogging allows me to develop my name and brand with a bit of empathy as I learn the ropes and rise in rank.
4) No matter how large a blogger you are, seeing a comment notification or receiving a nice email from a reader makes your day. Seeing a message in your inbox from an author, celebrity, or entrepreneur that you look up to will make you all giddy for a moment, whether you admit it or not. I always enjoy these surprises.
5) To be a part of the people powered media. A thousand individual bloggers are much more powerful than a television network, radio station, or newspaper. We’ve become a trusted source for news and insights minutes after they occur, not hours or days. We produce a wide variety of content that you control how, when, and where you absorb it and join the conversation when you wish. It’s exciting to be a part of this movement.
To keep this meme moving I invite Chris, Kevin, Jason, and David to share the 5 reasons why they blog.
Un-Paid (Totally Biased) Review
April 7, 2007
This isn’t a paid review, but being the creator of COLOURlovers.com you could say my opinion is slightly biased.
COLOURlovers recently got a face-lift and some new tricks and tools. We moved the site over to a beefy managed server by RackSpace.com and we added some new features.
Rolling with Wordpress (Check Out the Blog)
It was a pain to update and not as interactive to blog on the old platform, so we fully integrated wordpress into COLOURlovers. And with Chris at the helm of this new blog section, you can expect to see daily updates on color trends & interesting new color and design related tips.
Naming Companies on the Cheap
April 6, 2007
James Archer over at Forty, wrote a great compilation post showing “Where Company Names Come From.”
I thought it was very interesting and a good follow-up to my Branding Made Easy, and Cheap post.
A few of my personal favorites from James’ list:
Audi: Latin translation of the German name ‘Horch’. The founder August Horch left the company after five years, but still wanted to manufacture cars. Since the original ‘Horch’ company was still there, he called his new company Audi, the Latin form of his last name. In English it is: “hark!”.
Did you mean: It’s about damn time
April 4, 2007
It only took 6 months for YouTube to integrate simple suggestive spelling into their search results. This should add a few more productive seconds to our lives. Yes, that was back-to-back sarcasm.
Stranger Danger & People You’ve Never Met
April 3, 2007
Over the last several years, I’ve worked with a large number of people that I’ve never actually met. The internet allows us all to work together, no matter how far away we may be. I’ve been hired by people in other countries and contracted work with people across the country or state. I’d say that on the whole it has all worked out pretty well… but there have been some bumps along the way.
This week I had the chance to meet two people I’ve been working with over the past few months. One I met in court and the other I met for some drinks.
Here are 6 Tips for Working with People You Don’t Know
EMI/iTunes DRM free music, yay or nay?
April 2, 2007
I’m leaning towards nay. They’re adding almost 1/3rd more to the price to enable us to do what we should rightfully be able to do to begin with. I find it comical that they’re finally offering higher quality 256kbps for that additional $.30 too which should have been an option from the get go.
Jobs says that they’re trying to give us what we’d get if we’d just bought the CD and ripped it directly. In defense of that, full album purchase prices remain unchanged, encoded at 256kbps, and are DRM free. But isn’t the beauty of buying music online getting to choose which songs you want? You can read more about the announcement here.
I can’t imagine what would happen to my father’s paintball business if he sold $99 gun for use on his fields only, but if you wanted to take it to another field, he’d tack on another $30. But hey, they give you a free barrel plug if you do that (which should come with the $99 gun anyways). I have a feeling everyone would buy their equipment on the internet for much less and play wherever they want.
Maybe it’s a step in the right direction, but it’s certainly not a giant leap for mankind. What do you think?
To infinity and…plus 1?
April 2, 2007
Yahoo recently announced that they’re expanding their e-mail storage to “infinity”. Google will soon 1 up them, literally. Read the story here