Category Archives: Web 2.0
My new Pandora station … Rock Country Mix
Music typically plays a good role in my day. When cranking through work in the morning I enjoy my Motivational station (soundtracks like Braveheart, Gettysburg, Borne Identity, etc) then often times I’ll switch it up to a Indie / Soft Rock station (Indigo Girls, etc). Recently I created two new stations: (1) Rock/Country Mix – [...]
Web optimization – Pingdom
This post is not as exciting as pictures of Campbell but it does highlight a pretty cool tool anyone can use to test the speed of a web page. Go to http://tools.pingdom.com How it works The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It [...]
Pomona High School class of 96 entreprenuer
IndieGogo, launched by fellow pomona high school grad eric schell, is experiencing some great media coverage.
Anniversary Bike Ride in Santa Barbara
We had a great trip to Santa Barbara for our anniversary. We took a beautiful bike ride up Mountain Drive and then up the coast. You can see our route on this new tool/site I found : Sanoodi (not sure what the name means but it’s pretty cool). Source: http://www.sanoodi.com</p> <ul> <li>Name: SB Bike Ride</li> [...]
Resource for bloggers
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How far did you walk/run?
So Kelly and I have been trying walk/run/bike more this year. Well, let me rephrase that, Kelly has a great track record of taking walks and runs. I have a slightly more vacant excercise chart. However, in the last month I have 4 runs, 1 bike ride, and several walks. We’ll see if I can [...]
Free 411 Calls
For those in the US, add this number to your speed dial 1-800-Free-411 (1-800-373-3411) That’s right, free information calls. No more $2 charges on your phone bills. You do have to listen to a 10-15 second advert but it’s worth it. Check ‘em out at www.free411.com PS You probably don’t want to call 1-800-411-Free (it’s [...]
Best Web 2.0 Acquisition Bait
Check out WIRED magazine’s recent top 10 web 2.0 acquisition bait. Wired 15.01: START 1. FACEBOOK This social networking site is gaining on MySpace as the hipster destination. Reportedly, it spurned a $750 million offer in hopes of netting $2 billion. 2. DIGG Claiming 20 million users a month, Digg is the Mack Daddy of [...]
Odeo
I have found myself listening to a few podcasts on ODEO. It’s so much easier than subscribing to the podcast on iTunes. Granted I can’t take it with me on my iPod but it is nice to search and find with such ease. It’s worth a shot if you haven’t checked it out. I’ve included [...]
I think Twitter is onto something. You sign up and anytime you update (send an SMS) it updates your friends and the website (if you’re comments are public). In some aspects this is just an easy way to send out a text to many. Do I care what my friends are doing? Do I want [...]
