Was reading Noah Kagan’s blog, and he had a great idea for a business… kinda sad though 
Friday Free Business Idea: 1 Minute Motivation at Okdork.com
It gave me a great business idea:“A person you can call at anytime for 1 minute of motivation”
Think of this as phone sex 2.0. This person you can call at anytime for some positive words and help in getting you feeling awesome.
Yesterday, I started putting stuff into my diary so that I could find a free weekend to go to pearl beach with friends and I discovered that from next weekend until my birthday (April 17 2007) I have basically no free weekends (of the 3 free ones 2 are almost certainly subject to change and the other my extended family are up at pearly).
I guess its now time to attack mid-week solutions (bearing in mind that I can’t miss more than 1 training session and certainly not a friday before a regatta or a wednesday time trial).
Well, I guess this is what you get when you sign your life away!
How do you feel about logistics?
Check out this letter (standard issue) I got from MP Andrew Humpherson wishing me the best for all (nill) of my HSC exams.
Yeah, I know I am smug about this but it is the current HSC people who I will be envying for the next few years starting in 3 weeks (they get holidays, and some go on to uni with massive holidays).
And no one needs to point it out, yes I know I have been slack with the blog lately.
Cheers,
Luke
Well, it’s about time and great news! Google is starting to use its massive grounds to generate electricitiy for its massive computer power. Once installed it will be able to serve 30% of their maximum power usage.
This is a great step and they are publicising the fact that they are actually saving money… which is something that needs to be publicised to many organisations so that they don’t use the old “it’s to expensive” excuse.
Looking forward to taking more steps to take care of the beautiful planet we have been blessed with!
This is the sweetest thing you’ll ever see, damn I love that kind scenery!
http://www.youtube.com/v/Q3CfddhcsDw
Sometimes in business you have competitors that love to mimic and copy all of your moves. The worst part about this is that it makes it hard to show your potential customers the benefits of your product compared to your competitor’s product. So what do you do when this happens to you? You can do something so drastic and unexpected that they have no choice but to stop copying you.
GREAT, FUNNY VIDEO! http://www.youtube.com/v/N3dlYWfNVl8
Face it, convergence is inevitable. Do I know what Apple has up their sleeves? Absolutely not. I do have suspicions and sometimes I’m right and sometimes I’m surprised. I do think that the iPod, or possibly an entirely new product line based off my theory, is coming to MWSF 07.
Apple will make an uberdevice. They will succeed where others have failed in this category, and once again cause a paradigm shift in the consumer electronics market. Yes those are big bold statements, and I say these things because of Leopard technologies combined with the growing Mac market, and the utter state of things in this business.
Combining various things into an eSwiss Army Knife is usually a failure for three reasons.
Read on: http://theappleblog.com/2006/10/03/apple-will-make-an-uberdevice/
mmm, tasty
In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and
thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of
your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen
Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states,
commonwealths, and territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not
fancy).
Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America
without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be
disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine
whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown
Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
You should look up “revocation” in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then
look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed
at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter ‘U’ will be
reinstated in words such as ‘favour’ and ‘neighbour.’ Likewise, you will
learn to spell ‘doughnut’ without skipping half the letters, and the
suffix ize will be replaced by the suffix ise. Generally, you will be
expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up
vocabulary).
Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noises such
as “like” and “you know” is an unacceptable and inefficient form of
communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let
Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be
adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter ‘u’ and the
elimination of -ize. You will relearn your original national anthem, God
Save The Queen.
July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.
You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers,
or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists
shows that you’re not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only
be handled by adults. If you’re not adult enough to sort things out
without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you’re not grown
up enough to handle a gun. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to
own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit
will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and this is for your
own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we
mean. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will
start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you
will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of
conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you
understand the British sense of humour.
The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been
calling gasoline)-roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.
You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries
are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips
are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal
fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.
The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer
at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as
beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be
referred to as Lager. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen
Gnat’s Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.
Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good
guys.Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play
English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in
Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one’s ears
removed with a cheese grater.
You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of
proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in
time, be allowed to play rugby (which has some similarities to American
football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds
or wearing full kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).
Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an
event called the World Series for a game which is not played outside of
America. Since only 2.1% of you are aware that there is a world beyond
your borders, your error is understandable.
You must tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us mad.
An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty’s
Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all
monies due (backdated to 1776).
Thank you for your co-operation
Really good Jakob Nielsen article on Particpation, just a few quotes:
In most online systems, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.
Promote quality contributors. If you display all contributions equally, then people who post only when they have something important to say will be drowned out by the torrent of material from the hyperactive 1%. Instead, give extra prominence to good contributions and to contributions from people who’ve proven their value, as indicated by their reputation ranking.
Signal-to-noise ratio. Discussion groups drown in flames and low-quality postings, making it hard to identify the gems. Many users stop reading comments because they don’t have time to wade through the swamp of postings from people with little to say.
Customer feedback. If your company looks to Web postings for customer feedback on its products and services, you’re getting an unrepresentative sample.
This is something I find common with online groups. I think I fit in to the 9% (or less) that contribute from time to time because:
The article is here: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/participation_inequality.html
Let me know your thoughts.
Cheers,
Luke
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