I’ve got a bunch of great sweedish friends….. talented snowboarders, designers and videographers. I don’t know what it is about that little country, but they produce some pretty cool stuff and they know how to market it as well… here’s iKea’s lastest marketing ploy to engage its’ customers: http://bit.ly/6Uv5GF
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Yes… a lame “catchy” title I know. But I ask the question in all seriousness, I am listening to the audio version of “Googled: The End of the World as We Know it” by Ken Auletta. It covers the evolution of Google from it’s meager beginnings @ Standford to the 800 pound gorilla it is today. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are smart dudes. As I listen to this book, I can’t help but wonder if when they we’re slamming pepsi’s at 3am while “borrowing” computers from Stanford if they think they would one day be at the helm of a company that rivals Microsoft. As you may know…. Google is going to release it’s first operating system next week called Chrome (which is the name of their current browser). If this OS is stable and does more than Windows 7 we may quite possibly see the gap between Google and MSFT get tighter. Always a fan of the underdog, I am excited to see what is about to unfold. One thing is for sure, we’re living in an amazing time!
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I want news. I want news about the things I’m interested in, delivered to my email inbox or cell phone once a day. Having to go and check my RSS subscriptions daily or going to the toolbar add-on in FireFox is not efficient. I hear there is a cool new start-up working to resolve this problem… can’t wait!
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TL, you’re awesome! Thanks everyone for a great night! Such a good time seeing you all!
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You can say a lot about socal but it’s days like today I’m stoked to live here ! What a rad day!
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Alright… The candy is ready the kids are dressed up and the parents have the beer cart loaded! Should be a fun night! Posting from @glue_now via iPhone! the crew @thesquad are geniuses!
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Alright… The candy is ready the kids are dressed up and the parents have the beer cart loaded! Should be a fun night! Posting from @glue_now via iPhone! the crew @thesquad are geniuses!
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So I’ve had this service for a while called youmail. It does all sorts of stuff like records professional greetings, assigns specific greeting to specific callers etc. It transcribes your voice mail so you can read it in email and sends you txt messages as well… cool service for $9.95 a month or whatever. A couple days ago Google announced that you can assign you’re own number to their service and it does the exact same thing… only it’s free. I got an invite a while ago and didn’t use it much as it was more like Skype Voice mail… but now that you can use your current cell phone number… it’s killer. Transcribes voice mails, allows for custom greetings… even the SMS Text messages it sends you have a preview of the voice mail someone has left for you !!! Sick !!! But alas, here’s why they’re dangerous… I’m all about start-ups and entreprenuralism so it saddens me to a degree to see that with a little development time someone like Google can get into a space they weren’t even in, and immediately take out the competition. All the time I would get questions, “who’s that on your voice mail” you have an assistant or something ? I would always tell them, “no… it’s this cool service called youmail, you should check it out” no one ever did… at least as far as I know. However, everyone has heard of google. So the ability for them to hear about this service from google has just exponentially increased over any marketing program that youmail could hope to put together…. so there you go… in a matter of months google has entered a new space and will be in the process of killing another start-up. Therefore I’m torn… Google … Good or Evil ? I guess only time will tell.
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So I’ve had this service for a while called youmail. It does all sorts of stuff like records professional greetings, assigns specific greeting to specific callers etc. It transcribes your voice mail so you can read it in email and sends you txt messages as well… cool service for $9.95 a month or whatever. A couple days ago Google announced that you can assign you’re own number to their service and it does the exact same thing… only it’s free. I got an invite a while ago and didn’t use it much as it was more like Skype Voice mail… but now that you can use your current cell phone number… it’s killer. Transcribes voice mails, allows for custom greetings… even the SMS Text messages it sends you have a preview of the voice mail someone has left for you !!! Sick !!! But alas, here’s why they’re dangerous… I’m all about start-ups and entreprenuralism so it saddens me to a degree to see that with a little development time someone like Google can get into a space they weren’t even in, and immediately take out the competition. All the time I would get questions, “who’s that on your voice mail” you have an assistant or something ? I would always tell them, “no… it’s this cool service called youmail, you should check it out” no one ever did… at least as far as I know. However, everyone has heard of google. So the ability for them to hear about this service from google has just exponentially increased over any marketing program that youmail could hope to put together…. so there you go… in a matter of months google has entered a new space and will be in the process of killing another start-up. Therefore I’m torn… Google … Good or Evil ? I guess only time will tell.
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hey… folks on the interwebs…. you’ve got to try out Glue ….. www.gluenow.com. Let’s you post blogs to nearly every single outlet you can imagine: Twitter, FB, WordPress, LinkedIn, Myspace, Virb, Posterous, Blogger, Tumblr and more…. and the guys that run it are super killer with their support ! Glue is killer !
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Just fell for a trick by @topper4125 …. But it was pretty good http://bit.ly/1628nB remember this guy? I’m gonna request this song next time I’m dancin’ w/ the wife !
I can’t believe how much I still need to learn….. here I am 40 years old…. And still learning every day!
It never ceases to amaze me how company CEO’s (who I’ll refer to as Quarterbacks or Pitchers) get to hold onto their jobs, make an unbelievable amount of money while there companies performance is in the toilet. Now, I understand that a lot of these CEO’s are good guys, well respected and probably terrific leaders whose company’s simply got crushed in the downturn. OK fair enough…. But how can a CEO who’s company is performing so poorly still take gobs and gobs of money. Don’t they have a conscience ? Wouldn’t you say, “Hey, we’re hurting, our shareholders are hurting, our employees are hurting so I’m gonna share the pain and not take that $10M dollar bonus, instead, I’m going to put that back into the company.” I mean really…. That’s the right thing to do, don’t you think ? If these guys were on the field at the Quarterback or Pitcher positions they woulda been canned a long time ago. It’s crazy to me how sports values performance more than business! Here’s the article : http://bit.ly/4ApEhm
2 : 17 : 46
6th place for my age group…. Bummed, was hoping top 5. Next year stair training to get faster on those hills.
RT @loic vote for Seesmic here…. @lifehacker… make it easier for people to vote next time ! http://lifehacker.com/5367205/best-twitter-client
OK. I take it back, T.Robbins now has a room full of people jumping up in down pretending to celebrate as if they are at a championship football game. I’m over it!
watching T. Robbins @ the #TC140 conf. thought the guy was hokey, but he just said “F-you” changed my opinion of him!
Alrightly then… TC50 2009 is over. I watched nearly ever presentation. Being a “start-up stalker” I wanted to see what companies followed in principal @victor_cheng ‘s book: Extreme Growth: A guide for Silicon Valley CEO’s. In this incredible short read Victor discusses the that “extreme growth” is the result of a business being built on a foundation of 5 main principles:
1) Competitive Advantage
2) Product / Service
3) Distribution Channel
4) The Promise
5) Target Customer
Target customer of course being the base. No customer = No sale. The “promise” as he describes it is actually the “promise” that your product or service actually solves a problem you’re target customer is having. Simple, but brilliant. Yet as I viewed the last 2 days of demos, it was amazing how many companies had a product or a service that actually made the cut to TC50 that didn’t have either: A target customer that had a problem:
Example:
iMo : Cool iPhone app, gaming market is big but really, does is solve a problem ?
cocodot : a more elegant evite: Where’s the problem solving ? E-vite’s successful for a reason: people use it! This guy said it would “Help guys get lucy with their wife’s or girlfriend’s”…. ?
Theswop.com: professional bartering : As Roelof Botha put it “I don’t like it. Money was invented for a reason, we’ve seen people try to use beans etc. and it doesn’t work. I wouldn’t invest”
None of these companies solved a problem nor were their target markets large enough to scale…. Many companies however did solve a problem like:
CitySourced: Allows users to report city vandalism, repairs via iPhone app
Threadsy: web app that allows you to consolidate all webmail accounts + twitter + facebook in one very nice UI
Mota Motors: web service that takes out the “guess work” and “distrust” of the used car market.
All in all a great event with great ideas, but an even greater education on what VC’s look for in a start-up!
Check it all out here : www.techcrunch.com
Great company just presented: www.citysourced.com started out kind of lame… but is a “Change Agent” as CEO Tony Hsieh of Zappos wanted to see yesterday #tc50
Hey there….
1) Anyone know how I can rid of the following text below my profile pic on Posterous:
Liquid error: private method
`gsub' called for nil:NilClass
2) Can you insert widgets on Posterous ? I’d like to add a twitter feed like you can w/ Blogger, but having a tough time finding out how to do it…
Thanks for any help ! Email me @ john@johnhaden.com
1) Ran 8 / Swam 2
2) Landed what will hopefully be a very successful internship!
3) Delivered Roger Skateboard tees today… check them out @ www.rogerskateboards.com
1) Started what will hopefully be a successful internship today.
2) Ran 8 / Swam 2
3) Delivered Tees to Roger Skateboards today....
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OK…. So pretty much geeking out at the moment…. But posterous is pretty rad…. Can’t believe it took me this long to find it which I think hints at what @glenntan and crew needs to do over @posterous (ADVERTISE) use that thing we’re all referring to as Social Media and get the word out! When you serach google for “best blog tools” a Forbes list comes up that includes:
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Posterous nowhere to be found…. Gotta change that…..
Anyway…. Here are random pics to see how they get resized using
OK.....
So I'm really following thru so far on my quarterly goals.
1) Complete my first Ironman in under 12 hrs. : 11.26 @Vineman
2) Blogging more.... for sure on Twitter, but also on www.johnhaden.com. Part of blogging more however is finding the right blog tool. I think I've just found it. After listening to an interview with Garry Chan, founder of Posterous.... I was convinced that if I can tie my blogger, twitter, picassa and other sites into one, it would be the site for me.
Alright.... time to build this thing now, I've got to import my blogger posts now.....
| Happy Labor Day, this is Kevin with your North Orange County Surf Forecast effective Monday afternoon. Southern California Recap: MONDAY – Small NW windswell continued today and mixed with underlying/background Southern Hemi swell. The better windswell breaks were in the waist high range, with sets to chest high at standout spots. Southern California Surf Forecast Outlook: Small NW windswell will continue through Tuesday, before dropping off for the middle to second half of the week. Small SW groundswell will also gradually build through mid week. Check the forecast below for further details and the longer range outlool. | The Surfline forecasting team consists of eight specially trained, world renowned forecasters to provide you with the best possible information for you to score great surf anywhere in the world. Meet the Forecasters |
| LOCAL NORTH ORANGE COUNTY SURF FORECAST (Surf sizes are face heights of the front of the waves) |
| Monday 09/07 | Tuesday 09/08 | Wednesday 09/09 | Thursday 09/10 | Friday 09/11 |
| POOR-FAIR SURF: 1-3 ft - ankle to waist high and poor-fair conditions. | POOR-FAIR SURF: 1-3 ft - ankle to waist high and poor-fair conditions. | FAIR SURF: 2-3 ft - knee to waist high and fair conditions. | FAIR SURF: 2-3 ft.+ - knee to chest high and fair conditions. | FAIR SURF: 1-3 ft - ankle to waist high and fair conditions. |
| Small NW windswell/groundswell mix; tiny SW swell | Small NW windswell/groundswell mix and small SW swell; weak eddy conditions possible | SSW swell mixed with fading NW energy; weak eddy conditions possible | Mainly SSW swell with minimal NW energy | Mainly SSW swell with minimal NW energy |
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