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I’m a workaholic that also tries to balance in family life, but that’s no easy task.
To ensure I have the most amount of time to spend with those I love most, I have to maximize my effectiveness when I am working (pretty much always).
Part of this involves creating workflows, shortcuts, and time-saving techniques (also reading [...]

This Christmas 2007, we have quite the round of goodies to be shopping for and putting on our wishlists.
Personally I like to stay on top of the latest gadgets, and have owned or considered purchasing each one of the items listed below, and they come with my highest recommendation (which means a lot from a [...]

A lot of people camped out to get in on the best deals today, Friday or Black Friday as it’s known; basically the day that retailers finally start to turn a profit.
Think about it for a second, retailers lose money 9 months out of the year, and make up for all those losses in just [...]

So Mark Cuban thinks it’s a good idea to block all p2p traffic, thanks Mark!
He goes on to say…
“Thats not to say there isnt a place for P2P. There is. P2P is probably the least efficient means of distributing content in the last mile. Comcast, Time Warner, etc should charge a premium to those [...]

With all of these rumors going around that eBay may be selling Skype to Google, I thought I would suggest a multi-team trade to spice things up.
eBay’s Picture Service is Horrible
For anyone whose ever used eBay, you know that their picture uploading service is a pain in the ass. First, you have to pay ridiculous [...]

College students are addicted to Facebook. A recent example, one student commissioned Michael Arrington for help getting his facebook account:

Dear Michael,
I’m a college student at University of Michigan and Facebook has deactivated my account. I’ve noticed, from reading your blog, you have connections to Facebook’s staff. Can you please forward this email to someone or [...]

So Fox News posted a link to a group on Facebook entitled, “30 Reasons Girls Should Call it A Night.”
Well apparently the moral police over at Fox News have posted a pool of drunken girls taken from pictures on Facebook.
I wonder if we’ll see the same pool posted about a NewsCorp owned MySpace as well, [...]

So what took so long for Facebook to roll out this target advertising strategy, and why is it that it’s being talked about like it’s the latest frickin iPhone:
“Facebook Ads represent a completely new way of advertising online,” – Zuckberg
“iPhone is a revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other [...]

It looks like Google’s share price pushing over the $700 mark could be the straw that broke the camel’s back in regards to this whole Bubble controversy.
Google debuted at a share price of $108 back in 2005, and when it opened at that price, a lot of my friends wanted to throw money into the [...]