A great announcement today to get 1000s of Free Google Books. Google announced today that you can download 1000s of classic books that have lost thier copyright including authors like Dante, Bolivar, Shakespeare, Aesop, and many others. You can read about it here: Google Books.
Good articles in Fortune June 26, 2006 issue on Baby Boomers & Retirement. Although I am a long ways from retirement, there were some good facts to start thinking about. Here are some takeaways:
Average household reduction in income during retirement = 43%
Median balance of 401K programs for those near retirement = $60K
Concerning how much babyboomers [...]
Free Skype to calls to any phone in the U.S.? Well, thanks to Google News on this one that led me to itworld.com on Free Skype to landlines and mobiles in the U.S. and Canada for the rest of the year. Here are some other facts about Skype. Skype offers:
user base of [...]
During the past few months, I have had a personal assistant from the Philippines. He works for me between 7pm and 3am my local time. The intention of doing this was to see if I could delegate some of my responsibilities to my personal assistant. Here is a summary of my experience [...]
Interesting statistic in BusinessWeek Feb 6, 2006 edition on real estate in California during 2005. The stat is 1 in 13 Homes in California sold for over one million during 2005. It is also interesting to note that California has some of the most over priced areas in the nation, by some numbers [...]
A lot of people have talked about the possible pop of the real estate bubble especially with the Large Housing Market Supply. BusinessWeek talked about this in the Feb 6, 2006 edition. Here are some take-aways:
- Fannie Mae reports vacancy rates are at its highest levels
- homes up for sale are up more [...]
Great article in Fast Company in the April 2006 edition on Cheap TV Advertising. The article focuses on two guru’s Nick Grouf and David Waxman who are overhauling the TV ad business using the Internet. Here are some take-aways:
1. David and Nick started Firefly and PeoplePC before starting their latest venture Spot Runner [...]
Great article in Fast Company in the April 2006 edition on Cheap TV Advertising. The article focuses on two guru’s Nick Grouf and David Waxman who are overhauling the TV ad business using the Internet. Here are some take-aways:
1. David and Nick started Firefly and PeoplePC before starting their latest venture Spot Runner [...]
Interesting article in the Jan 30, 2006 edition of BusinessWeek on Naver.com, a Korean search engine. Here are some takeaways:
1. Naver.com is owned by NHN, a Korean company with a stock performance that is outpacing Google.
2. Naver.com ranks users who comment into one of 5 categories. Each of these categories has a weight [...]
I had a great meeting about Utah Valley Technology on Friday, March 17th with some fantastic people. Some of the people there included Scott Jensen of Novell’s Incubator OSTC, and Shaunna Theobald of UVSC’s SBDC.
As we talked about the technology that is in Utah Valley, there are some really cool things going on. [...]
