Archive for December, 2007

Facebook & Digg Videos

You be the judge. This is what the youth of our country, the USA, are up to this Christmas Holiday season:
 

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Well, not exactly. There is a spell checker, and I assume it works, but it is French. Seems like OE doesn’t have its own spelling dictionary, and uses the one Office provides. Prior to Office 2007, the world was in sync. I installed Office 2007, my wife uses Outlook Express, and wondered why the spelling [...]

From the NZHearld: Back in 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built the Apple I, an early personal computer that consisted of a circuit board in a simple wooden box.
Taiwan’s Asustek Computer is finding potential beauty - and sales - in an eco-friendly notebook PC encased in another natural material: bamboo.
The Asus Eco Book, [...]

Wheel-2-Wheel Racin’

For those of you unfamiliar with Formula 1 racing, this is an in-the-cockpit shot of Felipe Massa (Ferrari–red) dicing with Robert Kubica (BMW–white) in the rain in the Grand Prix of Japan, 2007.  The cars weigh only 1400 pounds and have about 800 horsepower, and yes, they do race even when it is raining.  Turn [...]

Shanghai, Dubai, Mubmai or goodbye

Friday (12/20/07) I saw a typical TechCrunch spiel about a company named “Shangby.” I did a little investigating, and came to the conclusion that their idea and execution is totally UBER and deserving of further study and/or emulation by Purdue University entrepreneurship students. Their web site here: states:
“ABOUT US
After traveling to Shanghai, and seeing [...]

N as in Netsuite goes public

Even by the stratospheric standards of Silicon Valley tycoons, Oracle’s Larry Ellison enjoyed quite a payday Thursday, recording a $2.76 billion gain on the strength of the Wall Street debut of a software firm he bankrolled and a hearty rise in Oracle stock.
The much-anticipated initial public offering of NetSuite, a software maker that caters [...]

OLPC-XO Arrived!

About 5:30 this evening, a FedEx lady dropped off a rather small plain box from Brightstar US, Inc, 1001 Technology Way, Libertyville, IL 60048. In this box, packaged in recycled cardboard egg crate type packaging was the XO that I ordered via the G1G1 (Get One Give One) program. Recall, this donation was made in [...]

Consider the following:
Posted by Elinor Mills here :
Just like with diaries, teen girls tend to blog more than their male counterparts, but boys post more video, a new study finds.
(Credit: Pew Internet & American Life Project)
About 35 percent of all online teen girls blog, compared with only 20 percent of boys, according to the Pew Internet [...]

 
has an excellent article that is a must read for entrepreneurs, as well as for strategic content by firms concerned about their strategic direction. The article lead reads: ” Fansumers, viral videos and social computing — these are just some of the many buzzwords pinging around the marketing world today. Making sense of them is [...]

Example STVP Video Embedding

The Stanford Technology Ventures Program here: makes many great entrepreneurship-related videos available for use in the classroom. They just made available embedding of these videos, an example of which is provided below. Get on the train! The info provided below is from the STVP link. Hank
Description: Donna Novitsky talks about developing a marketing strategy [...]