wannabeMogul

I stand in the world without a FriendFeed. It may be a slightly darker, colder less RSS-blissful place, but I am okay with that for the moment. If you’ve been trapped under some Web 1.0 rock, FriendFeed is an aggregate service that allows you to link all your social media profiles, blogs and services into [...]

It started as such an innocent tool. In my love of Gmail, I stumbled upon the powerful Google Reader (reader.google.com) and begin to fill it with RSS feeds from my favorite Web destinations. Instantly, my reader became the fastest way to skim through the gaming blogs, tech news and business musings of the talking heads [...]

I’ll take your Seth Godin, and I’ll raise you one. I suggest a tip I got a long while back from Scott Ginsberg, “The Nametag Guy,” about tracking your presence on the Web: Set up a Google Alert for your name. Really, go do it now. By setting up a Google Alert for your name, [...]

As part of my recent Zen-ifying and simplifying of life, maximizing the amount of productive time in my day, I have downgraded. I traded in my MDA for a basic Samsung candybar phone. Why would a techie downgrade? Time wasted because smartphones are not good enough for either of their fucntions today. I couldn’t justify [...]

Losing a bid to for a profitable investment to one of your major rivals is bound to be upsetting. It might even be so upsetting that you take a blood oath to destroy that investment or bend it to your will… Facebook may have missed out on the chance to be a part of Google’s [...]

I think it’s appropriate in this new media landscape that we start off the profiles by talking about an entrepreneur that is as close to my age–part of the reason I get so antsy about getting my own startup together. No matter how exactly Mark Zuckerberg got the idea, he has quickly established himself as [...]