Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Obama Gave 1% to Charity, Romney Gave 15%
After reading this news, I have less respect for President Obama.
Obama gives $10,000 over 4 years based on $1.2M? Seriously?? Well, it's better than what I believe Biden gave, which was about $5,000. I hate to say it, but a liberal heart sure isn't a giving heart, which has been statistically true anyway. Maybe before all this talk about income distribution and earning caps on other people, Obama should learn to give more than 1% to the hungry and needy.
His rhetoric is simply assine when you can't live by your words. What's all this talk about fairness and bridging the gap between rich and poor when he can even live out his life through his personal finances. For all his talk, I would have expected 20%-50% of this income donated to charities and nonprofits. The point that is left out of this discussion is that many people don't want to give more to inefficient government programs (i.e. D.C. public schools had the highest per capita spend but the bottom 10% in the quality of education and the countless national pork projects), but would opt into giving to the charities and nonprofits of their choice. Instead of increasing the tax rates on the "rich" why not require that increase to be donated to nonprofits targeting specific societal needs?
Obama gives $10,000 over 4 years based on $1.2M? Seriously?? Well, it's better than what I believe Biden gave, which was about $5,000. I hate to say it, but a liberal heart sure isn't a giving heart, which has been statistically true anyway. Maybe before all this talk about income distribution and earning caps on other people, Obama should learn to give more than 1% to the hungry and needy.
His rhetoric is simply assine when you can't live by your words. What's all this talk about fairness and bridging the gap between rich and poor when he can even live out his life through his personal finances. For all his talk, I would have expected 20%-50% of this income donated to charities and nonprofits. The point that is left out of this discussion is that many people don't want to give more to inefficient government programs (i.e. D.C. public schools had the highest per capita spend but the bottom 10% in the quality of education and the countless national pork projects), but would opt into giving to the charities and nonprofits of their choice. Instead of increasing the tax rates on the "rich" why not require that increase to be donated to nonprofits targeting specific societal needs?
Friday, January 20, 2012
Fotoshop by Adobé
Simply a brilliant and amusing commercial by Jesse Rosten.
This commercial isn't real, neither are society's standards of beauty.
Follow on twitter.com/JesseRosten
Thursday, January 19, 2012
2012 Digital Predictions by Soap Creative
2012 Digital Predictions
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
CES 2012
MooCowHog's photostream on Flickr.
Random pictures from this year's CES (Consumer Electronics Show).
Twitter is Hiring! Inside Sales team
Account Manager, Inside Sales
If you’re an enthusiastic Twitter user with relevant account management experience, analytical skills, and a passion for learning, we invite you to talk to us about our advertising sales organization at Twitter, Inc.
Responsibilities
• Collaborating with a high volume of advertisers to understand their objectives, recommending best practices, and developing effective campaigns
• Executing, optimizing, and analyzing advertising programs using internal tools and dashboards
• Resolving campaign issues in a timely and productive manner, and identifying and implementing process improvements
• Managing contracts and renewals, and assisting our Sales Finance organization with payables and collections
• Providing feedback to our product and tools teams to help us scale our advertising platform
• Mentoring new team members as our organization grows
Requirements
• Demonstrated ability to create, develop, and enhance customer relationships
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, attention to detail, and a bias for proactively resolving issues
• Aptitude, creativity, and a preference for working in small, collaborative teams with minimal supervision
• A passion for Twitter and our mission
• BA / BS degree
Account Executive, Inside Sales
If you are an enthusiastic Twitter user with relevant sales experience, a strong track record, and solid customer relationships, we invite you to talk to us about advertising sales opportunities at Twitter, Inc.
Responsibilities
• Drive a high volume of sales through managing the complete sales process from prospecting to close.
• Create consultative sales presentations to demonstrate how Twitter’s advertising products can be leveraged to connect with consumers
• Thought leadership – immersing yourself in the evolving social media landscape, and adapting to Twitter’s ongoing product developments
• Mentoring new team members as our organization grows
Requirements
• 2+ years of inside sales experience working with medium size companies.
• A track record demonstrating an ability to succeed within a high volume sales environment and with driving the full sales cycle from start to finish: cold calls, building pipelines and closing business.
• Strong drive to beat targets, relentlessly positive attitude and incredible work ethic.
• Deep understanding of Twitter and the social media landscape, and opportunities for marketers
• Aptitude, creativity, and a preference for working in small, collaborative teams
• A passion for Twitter and our mission
• BA / BS degree
Friday, January 13, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
1st KoreaTown Comedy Festival
Thursday, January 12th at 7:00pm
CGV Cinemas
621 S. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Limited Presale Tickets: $11
At The Door: $15
All seats are first come, first served. OPEN SEATING, not reserved seating.
All proceeds go to LiNK (Liberty in North Korea) & KOLLABORATION (Empowerment Through Entertainment)
Aiko Tanaka (Comedy Store)
Amy Anderson (Comedy Central)
Andrew Fung (Fung Brothers)
Andy Hur (Dehydrated Comedy)
Bart Kwan (Just Kidding Films)
Danny Cho (Ktown Cowboys)
David Fung (Fung Brothers)
David So (Youtube Star)
Eliot Chang (Comedy Central)
George Wang (Dr. FoodManChu)
Jonathan Park (Dumbfoundead)
KT Tatara (Comedy Central)
PK (Kollaboration)
Walter Hong (Big Guy Productions)
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
A Lesson in Economics, Socialism and Why Pubic Policy Cannot Equalize Society
I came across this through a friend's Facebook post:"An economics professor at a local college made a statement t
hat he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all).
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little..
The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. As the tests proceeded, the scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. To their great surprise, ALL FAILED and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great, but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. It could not be any simpler than that.
Remember, there IS a test coming up. The 2012 elections.
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this experiment:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation."
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
2012 predictions: It’s Doom & Gloom for Amazon, RIM and Zynga
My 5th annnual technology predictions post is up over at VentureBeat. Check it out!
Saturday, December 24, 2011
What is Vidquik?
Our new product video is up...
"Vidquik is a web conferencing & sales solution platform. Our core product is an embeddable web conferencing widget with a powerful backend routing technology to increase your sales and customer service productivity. Please visit www.vidquik.com and contact us for more information."
Long version...
"Vidquik is a web conferencing & sales solution platform. Our core product is an embeddable web conferencing widget with a powerful backend routing technology to increase your sales and customer service productivity. Please visit www.vidquik.com and contact us for more information."
Long version...
Friday, December 16, 2011
Zynga's IPO Fizzles
Admittedly, I was being courteous in my review of Zynga's long-term prospects in my post in Technorati. They are still a multi-billion dollar company, so Mark Pincus or any of its investors have nothing but tears of joy.
My analysis was towards various statements I've heard that it was "game over" within the social gaming space and that Zynga will be the juggernaut forever. Knowing the gaming market, I just saw a few signs that told me the opposite, which I can say has happened since they have experience revenue decline over the past two quarters.
My original post from June 2011:
"Zynga. The juggernaut of social gaming has some analysts saying "game over" and conceding to his position as the dominant player in this new market. This reminds of how some people were saying Darko Milicic was going to be a "bona fide superstar". Also reminds me of the chatter that app makers Slide and RockYou were going to be billion dollar babies a few years back. If you know gaming, the tides can turn fast so $500 million in revenues can become $50 million in a few years. Supposedly Zynga is recently making "headcount" acquisitions of companies based on number of engineers, so I wonder if they are able to get the best talent and retain them in this manner? Well, I know John Doerr, the Coach K of Silicon Valley is big on him, but I'm 50/50 on this prospect. He could become a superstar or just a solid contributor like a Shane Battier."
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Dave McClure's Designing 4 Emotion Presentation @ WarmGun 2011
At the Warm Gun 2011 Conference today. Dave McClure's presentation here kicks it off.
Designing 4 Emotion (WarmGun, Dec 2011)
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
CNN on "Film: Egg donation exploits women"
Julie Peterson reports on "Eggsploitation," a documentary that claims egg donors unknowingly risk their health for money.
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