Back in November I posted that Jay-Z’s song Empire State of Mind made me want to move to New York. Truth be told, we seriously considered moving to NYC but opted for San Francisco instead for reasons I wont go into…because Grasshoper sort of sums it up hilariously.
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Now I’m in the blogosphere, Now I’m in the twitterverse
Fans get so immersed, But I’m a nerd forever
I’m the new Zuckerberg, And since my website
I been cookin’ dough like a chef servin’ killa-bytes
Used to be the basement, …

Did you notice anything strange about Google Buzz or was it just me? No, I’m not talking about the questionable privacy issue, that’s been resolved…and rather quickly I might add (Yah, I’m a Google fanboy).
Google Buzz has no advertisements.
So did Google miss an opportunity to place more ads? Are they waiting for something? In case you’re wondering, Google generates nearly all of it’s revenue from advertisements, yet Google Buzz doesn’t have advertisements. I suppose it isn’t so strange…Calendar and Docs are missing advertisements as well. Anyone have any ideas on …

All the buzz about Google Buzz got my mind buzzing… Who’s to say that someone doesn’t register The_Real_Shawn_Cheatham@gmail or some such nonsense. Here’s how I got a nifty ‘verified’ flag on my profile. Click my profile image below see my Google Profile.

Head over to www.Knol.Google.com
Sign-in with your Gmail username/password
Go to Preferences in the top-right corner
Select the Name Verification tab to verify your account

After a few failed attempts at verifying via credit card I resorted to using my social security number. You can check out the Name Verification FAQ here.

A couple years ago I was bitten by the Ruby on Rails bug. For those of you who don’t know (probably most people reading this), Ruby is a coding language and Rails is a framework (think template). My interest in Rails grew at first out of curiosity and interest in how comparatively easy it was to pickup in comparison to other technology I’ve worked with. Before long I grasped the basic ‘theory’ and ‘concepts’ of Rails to the extent that I could hold my own in general Rails conversations.
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If you’re one of the lucky few that have a Google Voice account, you might want to check out Chad Smith’s Google Voice Add-on for Firefox. The add-on gives you the ability to dial an outgoing number directly from a web page and then connects to whatever phone you specified in your Google Voice settings. Despite being in beta, I’ve been using it for a month or two with no major complaints. After installing and configuring the add-on, just go to a web page that has telephone number listed in …

“Are You an Inventor or an Entrepreneur?”
- Harvard Business Publishing

I am most definitely not an inventor but an entrepreneur…
Over the past couple years I’ve given a lot of thought to whether I consider myself an entrepreneur. Sure, I’ve started a handful of businesses but is that indicative of being an entrepreneur? To some perhaps but it takes a lot more than “starting” a company to be considered an entrepreneur. So I decided to see what the world has to say about the characteristics of an entrepreneur; vision, tenacity, sensibility, progressive, …

Posted this before and watched it hundreds of times but it never ceases to give me the chills.