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20 Great Resources on Entrepreneurship

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 04:25:53 GMT

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20 Great Resources on Entrepreneurship

A topic that we usually introduce about at lifehack.org is entrepreneurship. It is a sexy topic to talk about within the business/management category. We could learn a lot from some successful entrepreneurs because they are productive and motivated. At Listible, it has a lot of 20 good resources for entrepreneur, from blogs like our favorites: Steve Pavlina and Guy Kawasaki, and other less mentioned but with hidden gems of good posts:

Entrepreneruship is quickly becoming one of the most desired and sought after career paths. This list is a compilation of the best web resources for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Signum sine tinnitu - by Guy Kawasaki - Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com.

Steve Pavlina - Personal Development for Smart People.

Seth's Blog - Seth Godin's riffs on marketing, respect, and the ways ideas spread.

Cinventure - Cincinnati's resource for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners.

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Nikola Tesla Built an Electric Car in 1931

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:59:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Tesla is one of my biggest heroes. In 1900 he understood the concepts behind what finally became the "web" and would have built it given the right support. He also had plans to distribute electricity wirelessly around the world for free. I truly believe he would have accomplished that too.

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Supported by the Pierce-Arrow Co. and General Electric in 1931, he took the gasoline engine from a new Pierce-Arrow and replaced it with an 80-horsepower alternating-current electric motor with no external power source.

At a local radio shop he bought 12 vacuum tubes, some wires and assorted resistors, and assembled them in a circuit box 24 inches long, 12 inches wide and 6 inches high, with a pair of 3-inch rods sticking out. Getting into the car with the circuit box in the front seat beside him, he pushed the rods in, announced, "We now have power," and proceeded to test drive the car for a week, often at speeds of up to 90 mph.

As it was an alternating-current motor and there were no batteries involved, where did the power come from?

Popular responses included charges of "black magic," and the sensitive genius didn't like the skeptical comments of the press. He removed his mysterious box, returned to his laboratory in New York - and the secret of his power source died with him.

Tags: nikola tesla, electric car, car, automobile, 1931, inventor, invention, science, electricity

Parents Learn Basics of MySpace

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:45:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now this is what the government should be advocating.

On a clipping related note: I tired to clip just bits of this article but duplicate paragraphs kept appearing in my clip.

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Parents learn basics of MySpace
7/13/2006 8:51 AM
By: Shawn Flynn, News 14 Carolina


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		MySpace Classes Parents are advised to let their children use MySpace, but to keep an eye on what they are doing.

CHARLOTTE -- A new course is teaching parents about the uses and potential dangers of the world's most popular Web site.

MySpace.com started three years ago as a small, music-oriented social network, but last week it became the top ranked site, capturing 4.46 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic. A majority of those users are teenagers.

The social network was thrust into the local headlines earlier this year when it was discovered that Brock Franklin, a teenager charged with two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly driving drunk and causing a fatal wrong-way wreck, used his page to brag about getting drunk and getting high.


	MySpace.com has receives 4.46 percent of all U.S. Internet traffic.

Matt Gullett, a MySpace instructor, says the class teaches parents the dos and don'ts of dealing with their teenagers and MySpace.

“'We're going to go into how a MySpace account is actually set up, and then some of the clues as to as a parent what you should be looking for,” he said.

ImaginOn has its own MySpace account, set up to inform teens how to stay safe. It recommends that teens keep detailed information private, use an alias, avoid online flirting and to trust their gut feelings.

Gullett said it is better to allow your teen to use the site, than to forbid it, but it is always a good idea to keep an eye on them.

Tags: myspace, social networking, education

Yahoo! Pipes and The Web as a Database

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:23:04 GMT

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Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. In this post Alex tests out and explores the emergent world of Yahoo! Pipes. He sees some interesting parallels with Relational Databases in the 90's, concluding that with pipes, the Web essentially becomes a giant database that can be queried and remixed in any number of ways.

One of the central concepts in Complex Systems is Emergence. It is this automagical process through which elements of a system give rise to a higher order system. Emergence is how physics becomes chemistry and chemistry becomes biology. It is how web 1.0 evolved into web 2.0, and how that, in turn, will become the next web.

While the exact mechanics of emergence is complicated and far from being completely understood, scientists know that a new system emerges as a combination of its elements and their interactions. In other words, complex systems are really networks - where elements interact with each other and give rise to a new system.

Perhaps today we are witnessing one of the most vivid examples of emergence - the remixing of the world wide web. The parts of the new web have crystallized - blogs, photos, video, audio, maps, RSS, social network profiles and even plain old HTML pages have formed an impressive network, that now can be mined and remixed. Mashups are really nothing new, the web has been a programmable oyster for at least a few years now.

What is new though is the recent systematic thinking about the web as a database. A few companies, including Dapper, have been working on the problem. But with the recent launch of Yahoo! pipes, we are beginning to see the real power of remixing.

Tags: pipes, yahoo, yahoo pipes, web 2.0, web database

Where to find the world's hottest startups

Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:00:08 GMT

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Where to find the world's hottest startups

From Aussie blog mining to Finnish friend finding, we've located the planet's most innovative new sites.

(Business 2.0) -- The editors have identified the Best business ideas in the world, which will appear here in a series throughout the next month. Check back daily for updates.

The term "Web 2.0" is used so widely these days, you'd think it was taking over the globe. And you'd be right.

The catchall phrase - used to describe websites that thrive on what their users make of them is no longer limited to the United States.

As Web 2.0 success stories like Flickr and Del.icio.us prove, this kind of technology is dirt-cheap to implement and borrows data freely available from other websites. A guy in his bedroom in Chile can come up with a novel way to navigate global classified ads - and, in fact, one has.

A lot of these global entrepreneurs are simply copying the biggest ideas in America's Web 2.0 canon. For every Digg.com, the popular U.S. site that lets readers nominate and vote on the most important news stories, there's a Yigg.de (the German version of the same).

Tags: web20, internet, business, world enterprise, australia, africa, startups, entrepreneur

The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:51:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WOW! Some of these folks are raking in the cash!

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The following is a list of the Internet’s eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.

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September 25th, 2006 by John Chow

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I apologize in advance if I missed anyone on the list. If you make more than the people listed, please send me proof of your Google AdSense earnings and I will add you on the next time the list is updated. This is a list of individual site owners - people just like you and me. Big corporate AdSense publishers like AOL are excluded.

1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com - $300,000 per month

Markus Frind is a local Vancouverite who is turning the online dating world upside down. His site, Plentyoffish.com is biggest free dating site on the Internet. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views per month and make over $10,000 per day for Markus, who runs the site from home.

You think a site this big would be staffed by a hundred people but the only employee that Markus has is his girlfriend, who helps to answer the emails. Markus coded Plenty of Fish all by himself. The site is lean and mean and requires only four servers to handle all that traffic.

Doubts about Makus’s Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus’s blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings.

Tags: google, adsense, money, making money, google whores

Online volunteers roll up their sleeves

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:29:58 GMT

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006; Posted: 12:19 p.m. EDT (16:19 GMT)

Online volunteers roll up their sleeves

NEW YORK (AP) -- When it comes to volunteering, Caitrin Murphy finds satisfaction in spending 10 months helping Tijuana orphans or a Saturday building low-income homes outside Washington, D.C.

But onsite projects aren't always feasible, so Murphy instead turned to the Internet and, with two co-workers, remotely created a Web site for an organization that helps farmers in the West African country of Cameroon.

"It's an adequate alternative," Murphy said. "I would prefer a hands-on, physical experience at the site. At the same time, ... by doing a project virtually we could affect the lives of people we would never think of meeting."

Online volunteering is growing as Internet access improves worldwide, particularly among African and Latin American organizations needing assistance.

Tags: online volutneering, volunteers, volunteer internet

It's a do-it-yourself paradise

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:40:35 GMT

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It's a do-it-yourself paradise

New South City stores will boost density of building retailers in North County

By Todd R. Brown, STAFF WRITER

Chain retailers are taking advantage of consumers' eagerness to remodel rather than shop for pricier digs by rolling out bigger and better stores, some right around the corner from existing big-box shops.

South San Francisco recently OK'd a 124,000-square-foot Lowe's with a 25,000-square-foot garden center just 2 miles from the San Bruno Lowe's and a few doors down from a 24-hour Home Depot approved weeks before at 900 Dubuque Ave.

"Both Lowe's and Home Depot are very enthusiastic that the market is there to continue operation," South San Francisco City Manager Barry Nagel said Friday. "We hope for great success."

Tags: diy, home depot, lowes, home improvement

How to build a startup out of nothing

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:46:11 GMT

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How to build a startup out of nothing

By locating in Mexico and using Latin America as a lab, software company Sapotek launched on the ultracheap.

August 14 2006: 6:41 AM EDT

By Robert Levine, Business 2.0 Magazine

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Joshua Rand flies to Mexico on business every few weeks but rarely takes a laptop. Instead, he uses the virtual-desktop software made by his startup, Sapotek, based in New York and Toluca, Mexico.

The software, also called a webtop, lets users access personal files and software applications - including e-mail, word-processing, and spreadsheet programs - from any Internet-connected PC.

In 2003 the company began offering a free Spanish-language version of the webtop, which has attracted 100,000 users in Mexico and Latin America. The giveaway was not an act of altruism but a way to stress-test the service before its official debut.

It worked: Since last year Sapotek has licensed the software to six enterprise clients, including universities and companies with limited IT budgets, and in July it started marketing an English-language version in the United States.

Tags: business, low-cost, mexico, spanish, virtual desktop, sapotek

Branson's next big bet

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:52:15 GMT

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Richard Branson, entrepreneurial icon, shares his freshest ideas - like a Virgin superfuel that will let us jet around the world guilt-free.

Branson's next big bet

July 27 2006: 3:50 PM EDT

By Carleen Hawn, Business 2.0 Magazine

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Business 2.0 Magazine has identified the Best business ideas in the world. This is the first in a series that will appear here throughout the next month. Check back daily for updates.

Where others see disaster, Richard Branson sees opportunity. The founder of Virgin Group has business interests on six continents, including airlines, express trains, and limousine services, so his company's contribution to global warming worries him.

But instead of wringing his hands, Branson sees a new fortune to be made in reinventing the fuel business, much the way he's made over air travel, credit cards, health care, and more.

He's investing in conventional ideas like ethanol plants and solar power, but he's also developing a formula for a new ultraclean fuel that can power his jets as well as cars and trucks.

What we love about Branson is that he's part Warren Buffett, part P.T. Barnum. Not every idea he's dreamed up has panned out: Virgin Cola bombed in the United States, and the irresistibly named Virgin Brides retail chain is down to one lonely store in Manchester, England.

Tags: richard branson, virgin, entrepreneur, business, concepts, money

The Lazy Drinker -- bartender in a box

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:07:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Way cool idea. Looks great for parties.

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The Lazy Drinker

We test the robo-bartender's prowess at mixing classic cocktails

By Megan Miller

When we heard about the LazyDrinker cocktail dispensing device, we thought we'd died and gone to heaven. What could be better than a gadget that simultaneously satisfies our geekiest urges and quenches our thirst for delicious alcoholic beverages? So, we hastily emailed the company and asked them to send us one. A couple weeks later (they custom build each unit), we received our fully assembled machine-an Igloo cooler retrofitted with pressurized valves, hoses, a motherboard and data cables, and a CO2 tank.

See how we set it up and put it to good use in the following slideshow.

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BookkeepersList.com

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:35:08 GMT

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SBA Free online courses

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 20:34:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Free online courses through the SBA for getting your business started.

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30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:33:22 GMT

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30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet

Trend Buzz, Reality TV, and more...

Go Back in Time

Wonder what Yahoo looked like during the dot-com boom? Dial up the Wayback Machine, and you can view cached copies of popular Web sites dating back to 1996. For quick nostalgia trips, add a Wayback bookmarklet to your Firefox or Opera toolbar or Internet Explorer favorites; clicking the button will call up the archive of the site you're viewing.

Give Google a Face-Lift

Google offers more than a dozen services, but most are hidden. The GoogleX interface makes all of Google's goodies--such as Gmail, Froogle, Maps, and more--accessible via a nifty Mac OS X-like toolbar. Originally designed by a Google researcher, the toolbar disappeared shortly after being posted on the Google Labs site (most likely due to objections by Apple), but not before some plucky Netizens saved a copy for your use.

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Tags: internet, tools, business, web20

Free Google Adwords eBook

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:36:01 GMT

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