Monthly Archives:: June 2008

You MUST hear this CD

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TweetFYI to anyone that doesn’t have a clue and needs one — the new Girl Talk CD just came out at midnight. It’s called ‘Feed the Animals’ and it’s a 40-minute mashup of over 300 songs — you’ll know at least 100 of them. If you need a work-out mix, this is it. If you [...]

IDEA: Plugin to Sync Listening of a Song with Friends

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TweetI use iTunes when I listen to songs. My buddy listens using Winamp. We both have Last.fm and PC’s. We have similar music collections, if not same songs here and there. We like to instant message [IM] each other and listen to songs or entire albums together. He’s in Virginia, I’m in Buffalo. To do [...]

Google Acquiring Digg – Rumor

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TweetValleywag is reporting Google is digging around to acquire Digg. A few months ago I felt the best acquirer would be CNET — I wasn’t thinking of the bigger picture. I was thinking Digg/CNET would be a natural fit, given their focus on technology news [Digg is still primarily for the geek, but has slowly [...]

The MSFT/YHOO/IACI Paid Search Consortium

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TweetSince Yahoo just threw in the towel to Google, and Microsoft threw in the towel on acquiring Yahoo, and Ask.com hasn’t made any progress in market share in how many years… The losers need to get together and join forces in a competitive effort against Google. Banded together, MSFT/YHOO/IACI would reach ~33% of all US [...]

The Yahoo & Google (and AOL!) debacle

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TweetYahoo has now signed a paid search agreement with Google. People are saying the obvious – this gives Google monopoly power – and will drive down bid prices on Yahoo, which will make Yahoo need Google even more in the future. I can agree with that, but given Yahoo’s beating, it’s tough for them to [...]

IDEA #86: Mint.com but for Health & Fitness

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TweetI don’t actually know much about health/fitness web startups, so maybe this is already being done but I’m just unaware. I know some people publicly are “fatblogging” (the practice of blogging about their daily struggle to get in better shape). Mint.com is a cool service for your finances — and it doesn’t require much work [...]

The Best Viral Idea I May Have Ever Seen

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TweetBirthday Alarm. You go to the website, it crawls through your address book, sends out an email to all your friends and simply asks them for their birthday. Free sign-up, or users pay $14/yr to have ecards they can send to those friends. Such a simple idea. Has 50mm users right now grossing $4mm revenues/year. [...]

IDEA: Must See. Must Hear. Must Read. Must DO!

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TweetI just watched An Inconvenient Truth — the movie by(?) Al Gore that is about the impact of Global Warming and what this globe will go through together in next 10 years (and more) if we don’t dramatically change our ways. The facts are just undisputed in this documentary/movie. The movie is a must see [...]

11 Years Later – No Credit Card Debt

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TweetThis month I finally paid off all credit card debt I’ve been hanging onto since various crazy entrepreneurial excursions in my past life. About 3.5 years ago I contacted a debt management company [non-profit] that helped out a lot. I paid them $39/month to be a customer of theirs, but it was worth it, because [...]

Photo Printing Interoperability

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TweetMy Mom brought up a good point — if someone sends a link to their photos that they posted on Kodak.com, then can she get them printed at Walgreens? I believe the answer is no — and I don’t believe you can download high-resolution photos off the Kodak site and then reupload them to Walgreens. [...]