I came across something today that was funny but deserves some serious consideration. Jesse Hambley and Tommy Vallier, among others, talk about a new type of spam. If you take spam out of the picture, what do you have left: (1) personal or work emails and (2) the alerts from all the sites from [...]

Today, I revisited Plaxo which has a lot of promise because of its focus on contact data, while LinkedIn focuses on connections. I have yet to dig deep into it again, but I did come across the funniest thing. Plaxo decided to show Google Adsense on my dashboard, and you can’t beat the [...]

Today I received my invitation to sign up for a GrandCentral phone number. GrandCentral is a call management application that Google acquired while it was still in beta for $50M. In previous posts and at events, I’ve discussed the impact of this type of service to the future of online consumer experience and [...]

I recently attended the Leads2007 unconference (see my previous post), where I was interviewed on the future of online consumer experience.
The exciting part of it all was that most of what I spoke about was brought up by someone in the 50+ person group, including Connie from LowLender, Ike from Centrro, Tom from Oversee. You [...]

Discovery Channel was showing a documentary on The World, another magnificent paradise project designed by Nakheel and endorsed by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The World is a set of man-made islands that are shaped and positioned to resemble the lands and waters of the earth. The project follows the steps of [...]

Recent experiences I’ve had with my Thinkpad and Microsoft Vista have started to make me wonder about Apple or Upuntu (linux). These experiences are independent and I can only imagine the destruction if I had to deal with both together.
IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad
I’ve always been an advocate of Thinkpads because I have, until now, had a [...]

I attended the Leads2007 unconference in Tampa, FL with 50 individuals representing lead aggregators, lead management systems, service providers, and lenders. Although I have chosen to explore new concepts outside of mortgage lead management and exchanges, it was a great opportunity to listen to ideas and best practices. I’ve obviously spent over five [...]

I am currently sitting in the Phoenix airport’s US Airways terminal. I was listening to my iPod on the flight over and still have another three hour flight, so naturally I’m in need of a battery recharge on multiple devices. My laptop has 75% battery remaining, Blackberry 90%, and iPod roughly 10% (sounds [...]

Today I went to a networking event for The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). As I was driving to the event near the Univ of California Irvine, I thought about how many times I would have to explain how I left the company I co-founded after six months and what I was pursuing now. [...]

This last weekend I spent some much needed time in San Francisco. When I returned from the trip I thought about how fellow entrepreneurs were sharing ideas openly. I saw how this strengthens innovation, collaboration, trust and pushes everyone to think and work harder. Being a Bay Area outsider at the moment [...]