"Eye On The World"
Business
Too Late to Start?
Apr 12th
Cary Abbott is a 20 year vet of the U.S. Marine Corps, husband to the same woman for 24 years and a father of 3. He’s a social media madman who loves American Muscle Cars, Japanese Sportbikes, Native American Culture and believes there is a word somewhere that rhymes with Orange.
Starting a business is difficult enough with everything going for you, so why enter into business when things not only aren’t going for you, but are going against you?
I’m part of a group of people entering the entrepreneurial world backwards. We’re pushing against the grain and going against conventional wisdom. More >
SearchMe.com – Awesome New Search Engine
Sep 12th
This innovative – new search engine - lets you search the web visually and get an idea of where you are going. Type the object of your desire in the search bar and you are presented with a list of categories. Click a category OR click ALL and you are then presented with:
This is GREAT!!! – screenshots of pages before you visit them
If a picture is worth a thousand words then one screenshot is worth much more!
You’ve got to see this!What a concept – Searchme Stacks are visual bookmarks that let you collect items from your search (pages, photos, graphics, videos, documents etc.) and More >
Francis and the Lights
Aug 30th
Weekend Music Video
Click the four arrows to view FULL SCREEN & TURN UP the volume!
The Top (Music Video) from Francis and the Lights on Vimeo.
The Band – Francis and The Lights on MySpace Two Records – A Modern Promise and Striking Listen on LastFM
YouTube – The Story
Aug 14th
YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley
“How We Did It”
Chad was the speaker for June 2008 Startup2Startup dinner.
He told the story of how YouTube was started by the three co-founders – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. All three were former employees of PayPal who were looking for a solution to easily upload videos for sharing.
In October 2006 Google aquired YouTube for $1.65 Billion.
Chad was a designer at PayPal where he created the PayPal logo.
See Also:
Chad Hurley: How We Did It by Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee.com
Chad Hurley, YouTube CEO/Co-Founder, talks to entrepreneurs @ June Startup2Startup dinner by Dave McClure at More >
Grid Layer
Aug 6th
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Domo Arigato, Ani – Animoto!
Aug 2nd
Create videos from your photos quickly, easily and for free at Animoto.com
Amimoto is GREAT! Just upload or point to some photos, choose or upload some music, and then Animoto does it’s magic, mixing your photos and music to create a unique, one of a kind video – every time! You can make unlimited short vids, 30 seconds and nmt 15 photos, OR longer videos for $3.00 each or only $30.00 per year! A great Web 2.0 tool for quick, easy and flashy presentations. To learn about Animoto, take a look at the company’s 60-second video introduction. What the press is saying about More >
What’s Your Passion?
Jul 5th
Wanna hear some VERY SUCCESSFUL people talk about starting a business and doing business on the Internet?
For the very few who do not recognize the speaker in the photo – he is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com.
Start Up School is an annual conference for those interested in startups. It’s hosted by Y Combinator – new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage (esp. tech) startups.
Watch, listen and learn – Speakers include Marc Andreesesen (developed Mosaic – the FIRST really useful web browser and founded Netscape), Jeff Bezos (founded Amazon.com), David Heinemeier Hansson (partner at 37Signals & creator of Ruby on Rails), More >
Gates virtually GONE
Jun 25th
Bill Gates is hanging it up! – He is leaving Microsoft on June 27th, 2008 after more than 30 years at the helm and being named by Forbes as the richest man in the world for 13 years straight.
Bill Gates Quotes:
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” From his book, The Road Ahead (Penguin Books, 1996).
“When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software… We talked about a computer on More >
