Hot breaking news: Today 2/19/08 Bill Gates is going to announce the biggest student support effort ever by the company he cofounded, dubbed Microsoft Dreamspark See <- link for details. 
Unless you are living on another planet, which in retrospect might not be a bad idea until the current election cycle is over and done [...]

Brutti says,

Contest Rules:
A über widget that entrepreneurs cannot live without
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The contest is open to teams of 3-5 Purdue students, at least one of which MUST be currently enrolled in or a graduate of the Entrepreneurship Certificate Program. This includes students currently enrolled in ENTR200 who may or may not plan on continuing on [...]

Blist is a startup company headquartered close to where I once jogged daily along the wharf in Seattle, 1st and Yesler (Google map link to locale here), up on the fifth floor (probably great view). They are presently in closed beta, but their blog has some real gems, one of which is repeated in [...]

A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (Ford) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River.   Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.The Americans, very discouraged and depressed, decided to investigate the reason for the [...]

John Sculley was vice-president (1970-1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977-1983), until he became CEO of Apple on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993. In short, Sculley royally screwed Apple up before leaving. See the initial link on his name for details.  Saying that Jobs opened the door for OpenPeak’s [...]

Widgets, those little boxes with God only knows what in them, are becoming a big business. Currently used by 26% of all Internet users, up from 5% in early 2007, they are a perfect vehicle for social networks where ad spending is predicted to approach $2 billion this year. Up until very recently, [...]

Lori Pope is a Texas mother of twins boys which in of itself is a “problem.” As the father of two boys, I can attest that even the best of toys don’t keep kids gainfully occupied forever. A time is reached when favorite toys are left in a box somewhere, never to again [...]

The Canon GL-2 is now outfitted with the necessary 1394A cable for video input (Lafayette Electronics, $15.96 + tx, 6 foot cable), and I ran two test videos. The first is a UStream.tv test; the second was captured directly into Windows Movie Maker, then uploaded to Viddler.com as a wmv file. In both cases, I [...]

This comment was posted on this past Saturday’s blog titled “UStream.tv in Play?” and is worthy of a read for insights into someone very close to the action. We thank the “peon” @UStream.tv for taking time to visit our blog and comment in response to comments made by previous readers.
I am one of the [...]