• Future, Microsoft, Motivation

  Microsoft to acquire 100 companies over the next 5 years

  10.18.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  VentureBeat >> Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer just said at the Web 2.0 conference here in San Francisco that the software giant will acquire 20 companies a year for the next five years, ranging from $50 million to $1 billion.This steals from the playbook of News Corp, the media company that generated excitement among Internet companies after it acquired MySpace and others. There’s a tactic here: By declaring you are hungry, you get entrepreneurs coming to you to show you their wares — letting you get a glimpse of emerging technology even if you’re not going to buy it.

  Google and to a lesser extent, Yahoo, have also acquired dozens of companies over the past few years, with Google much more acquisitive recently. Google has acquired at least 10 companies over the last year (there may be more than we’re unaware of), compared to Microsoft’s four. Yahoo has also acquired four. See list here. (more…)

• Classic, Enlightenment, Motivation, The Greater Good, The Secret, Videos, YouTube

  Free Hugs Video Now Has Over 18.5 Million Views!!!

  10.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  
  
  

• Internet, Motivation, WTF

  PlaySpan - Founder is in the 6th Grade!!! - Receives $6,500,000 Series A Funding

  09.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  PlaySpan is founded by Arjun Mehta, a 6th grader, passionate about gaming and software programming that can make game playing experience exciting and more importantly rewarding!PlaySpan started in Arjun’s garage in Silicon Valley in 2006 and was incorporated with Arjun’s earnings from selling online game items won from quests he fought while attending 5th grade at Challenger School in San Jose.

  Milestones

  May 2006:	Incorporated
  August 2007:	Signed-up seven MMOG’s with a combined user base of over 10 Million Gamers
  September 2007:	Released Alpha Version of Platform

• China, Images, Motivation, Photo, Travel

  The New 7 Wonders of the World - 360 Degree Panoramic Views

  09.09.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  
  
  

• Books, Enlightenment, Motivation, The Secret

  Your Portable Empire - Passionate Financing

  09.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Imagine a system that allowed you to make money almost effortlessly, so that you could spend your time with friends and family, follow your dreams, or pursue other goals without worrying about where your next paycheck is coming from. Now imagine if all you needed to make that happen were a computer and an Internet connection. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it—with Your Portable Empire.

  Your Portable Empire is a system for creating an online business you can run from anywhere—at home, at a beachside resort on the other side of the world, or anywhere else for that matter. It requires little day-to-day effort, and once it’s up and running, your portable empire will create passive income for years to come.

  Author Pat O’Bryan has created a number of cash-generating businesses that he can run from a laptop anywhere in the world. In Your Portable Empire, he describes exactly how he created his businesses and how you can duplicate his success. He shows you how it’s done using real-world examples from his own experience, and personal stories and instruction from online gurus like Joe Vitale, Mark Joyner, Bill Hibbler, Craig Perrine, and Cindy Cashman. (more…)

• Blogs, Flickr, Motivation, The Greater Good, WTF

  Coney Island - The End of an Era?

  09.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  

  According to the EscapeFromNewYork blog, “Developers have been buying up land to build hotels, shopping malls and new amusement rides ala Vegas style. The plans, which keep changing, are wrought with controversy and drama that will likely drag on for years. For the tangled low down check out Kinetic Carnival.

  But for now it is still urban Americana personified—Nathan’s Hot Dogs, The Cyclone and Sideshows By the Seashore—to name a few. It’s a great place to spend a day photographing.

  Coney Island’s lifecycle so far has seen it go from the glory resort days of early last century, the urban decay and gangs depicted in the cult classic The Warriors and a revitalization that started in the 1990s. Whatever transition comes next, I hope that its unique personality isn’t completely wiped out.”

  Photo from my Coney Island Flickr set.

  (more…)

• MBA, Motivation, Networks

  A course that makes me want to go to Grad School

  08.31.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Structure of Information Networks is a Fall 2007 course taught at Cornell. The overview of CS685 is as follows, ” The past decade has seen a convergence of social and technological networks, with systems such as the World Wide Web characterized by the interplay between rich information content, the millions of individuals and organizations who create it, and the technology that supports it. This course covers recent research on the structure and analysis of such networks, and on models that abstract their basic properties. Topics include combinatorial and probabilistic techniques for link analysis, centralized and decentralized search algorithms, network models based on random graphs, and connections with work in the social sciences.”

• Motivation

  Staying Motivated by Kevin Cornell

  08.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Found an article from A List Apart this is befitting of a day like today. The article begins by stating,

  “Whether your chosen medium is pictures or language, food or formulas, everyone has the capacity to be creative in their work. But we can often lose our motivation to create, making it difficult to stay focused and excited on a project. So how does one keep their creative well from drying up?

  Maintaining your motivation to create is actually a long-term endeavor. Starting out can be tough, but with discipline and consistency you will eventually reach a point where staying motivated only requires minimal daily maintenance—a simple matter of learning to make the right choices at the right time.

  Of course, everyone is different, and each person will have their own unique formula to propel themselves into a creative frenzy. So while this article offers some possible solutions, it is up to you to make the right choices to keep yourself motivated. Maintaining motivation requires paying attention to your behavior, listening to your instincts, and learning how to encourage, bargain, and even trick yourself into being creative.”

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