Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

Growing Popularity of Online Gaming Having Real World Effect

Monday, March 14th, 2011

Once a niche market among a select few, gaming has grown by leaps and bounds from its humble beginnings. As various role playing games and more mainstream console based games grow in the popularity, the Internet has encouraged the change in the way our society views and uses these brands. ...

Great Laptops for Under Six Hundred Dollars

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

As computer companies flood the market in an attempt take control of the computer technology industry, it can be difficult to choose a laptop that fits your unique needs. When computers first hit the market they were terribly cost prohibitive, so technology was only available to the elite few ...

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 4: Housing ‘product’ to bridge renting and buying

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

Rent or buy? That's it? Are you kidding? We are talking about where we live our lives and we only have two choices? Seems like the streets or life on the road would be better at times. Then why not have a Real Estate product that puts a portion of current ...

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 2: Media

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Part 1 of "The dreaded 'Idea'" spouts freely new notions concerning Twitter and iPhone/iPod Apps & iOS along with a short treatise-like rant on ideas. Media Monetizing great content stuck on crusty websites An opportunity exsists for acquiring old, but authoritative content that ranks good.  This written treasure is often buried on neglected websites.  There's plenty ...

Similarities and parallels between Physics and Marketing

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

The title of this seven minute TED Talk from Dan Cobley is "What physics taught me about marketing."  Dan draws parallels between marketing and four major principals in physics. 1.  Rearranging Newton's Second Law gives us acceleration equals force over mass. Meaning the larger a particle is, the more force it takes to change direction. ...

The dreaded ‘Idea’ — Part 1: Twitter and iPhone/iPod

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Ah, the "Idea." Hardly will we find anything more polarizing. For seemingly half of us, just the word "idea" alone seems to conjure high-mindedness, nobility and is lauded up above so much else. The other half snubs/thumbs their noise at the word and "ideas" hardly even register as a ...

Is this Google’s long awaited Google Drive?

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

[caption id="attachment_909" align="aligncenter" width="469" caption="Google file storage"][/caption] These screenshots popped up today, looking something like the much discussed, much anticipated "Google Drive".  In mid January, Google announced plans to start rolling out cloud storage.  Seems you get a free gigabyte of file storage -- for any type of file and may ...

Failure, Planning, Interruption, Inspiration, Immutability and Selling your By-Products

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Business lessons from Jason Fried Jason Fried of 37signals.com spoke at BIG Omaha in 2009.  His talk hit home hard.  Here's a sort of summary of what Jason said there. Listen to it if you'd like. (Approximate time: 20 minutes.) Failure "Fail early, fail often." rarely makes sense. Failure only instructs on what NOT ...