The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is one of my favorite data sources – it’s also one of my favorite names for any government agency. The agency provides a database of world-wide features which I use as a data source for Geojoey.com’s landmark search feature (top right of the screen). These guys are selling the equivalent […]
July 20, 2007 | Code, Technology | 4 comments
I had a great chat with Tony Wright yesterday evening over a few drinks. Tony has a degree in psychology and is a fellow entrepreneur and we got chatting about the Milgram Experiment and its applicability to branding. Here’s a video summary: The experiment found that few people have the resources needed to resist authority, […]
Andy Sack doing 51 pushups inspired me to haul my MTB out of the closet and start cycling hills. If you’re into hard rock and need something to get your adrenal gland pumping, here’s my list: Godsmack – Running Blind The Exies Army of Anyone – Goodbye Shinedown – simple man Trivium – The Rising […]
July 19, 2007 | Music | No comments
Jobster’s CEO Jason Goldberg sent me this vid this morning of their marketing team brainstorming the launch of their new Facebook application. I’m curious what your thoughts are on the brainstorming process and the ideas they’re throwing around. Full disclosure: I worked for Jobster and left about 1 year ago. I also sold a previous […]
July 19, 2007 | Randomness, Startups | 1 comment
When I arrived in the US of A in 2003 I got into coffee in a big way. It took me a while to get it right. When I moved to Seattle from CA I discovered Peets coffee. They don’t keep any beans in-store for longer than 10 days so it’s incredibly fresh. You’ll notice […]
July 19, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
Dave Lu, CEO of FanPop.com was part of a panel at the Churchill club recently – a previous entry has the video. I loved an analogy he made: That the leap of faith you take as an entrepreneur is a lot like a scene from Indiana Jones. Here’s the scene: I love what he does […]
July 18, 2007 | Startups | No comments
TW sent me this piece of web marketing gold… The ULTIMATE guide to linkbaiting. Building blog content to get traffic from Digg, Reddit, delicious, etc.
July 18, 2007 | SEO | No comments
A friend in the UK sent me this. The number of searches for ‘facebook’ in the UK as just overtaken the number of searches for ‘myspace’. This has a history of being an excellent predictor and it’s showing that myspace is going to get beaten up by Facebook – at least in the UK market.
July 18, 2007 | Tech News | No comments
I found this awesome vid on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. It’s a panel session with Markus Frind, Founder, PlentyofFish.com and James Hong, Co-Founder, HotorNot.com and a few others. Markus Frind is my personal hero and much of the reason I have an aversion to VC money. This is more than an hour long, so when you’re […]
July 18, 2007 | Startups | No comments
Someone emailed me this morning and in his email sig he has a derivative of what was supposedly an ad by Ernest Shackleton for his 1908 Nimrod Antarctic expedition: I was intrigued, did a little googling and discovered that the ad seems to be a fake and the first published appearance of the “Men wanted […]
July 17, 2007 | Randomness | No comments