When opening a new TD Ameritrade account, I was asked to choose four security questions and provide the answers to them. I don’t even know the answers to 98% of them. You better go study up on your elementary school yearbooks before opening an account somewhere! And, I think for one of [...]

I still do not know what to think of the Do-Not-Track list concept presented by nine privacy organizations to the FTC today. As we browse the Internet, HTTP cookies are placed in our computers to track our actions — where we are now (current site), where were we before (sites visited), and what do [...]

My next post will be regarding the new concepts around the Do Not Track list. To help some make sense of the meaning behind Internet tracking and behavioral targeting, I help explain it below. For a lot of people, this stuff is common knowledge. For the others, if you want to see [...]

I was chatting with my father today and he’s been watching the news about Microsoft’s $240M (1.6%) stake in Facebook. My father has taught me a lot, and he is well in-tuned with the big businesses he invests in, among them Costco, Best Buy, Boeing, and, important to this news, Microsoft. He’s had [...]

I was digging around for videos from the Zeitgeist (I wish I had a login to that site), and finally found some new ones a few days ago. The founders of Google don’t often show up in presentations, but since the Zeitgeist is a Google event, it was fitting.
Sergey and Larry talk about some [...]

Food fighting has come a long way, and its quite intriguing to see how history repeats itself, and concepts continually evolve while maintaining an undercurrent of themes, values, rules, and such. Some are keen enough to identify those opportunities, quickly. Business 2.0 published an article, called “The man who started the foodfight“, highlighting [...]