Google+ First Impressions: My Big Three Takeaways

My thoughts on Google's new social networking platform, Google+, is up over at VentureBeat:

"Google+ first impressions: My big three takeaways" VentureBeat

Also picked up by their syndication partner, The New York Times here.

News & Links List

"Sean Parker On Why Myspace Lost To Facebook" TechCrunch


"Google+: First Impressions" Mashable

"First Night With Google Plus: This is Very Cool" ReadWriteWeb

"The New Silicon Valley Douchebag" TechCrunch

"The Top 10 Types of Douchebags in Tech and How NOT to Be One" Jason Nazar's Blog

"Bill Gurley Explains How Twitter Will Rule The World And Why Groupon Won't" Business Insider

"100 million Android fans can't be wrong" Fortune

"Why Android will gain HUGE tablet marketshare later this year" Scobleizer

"World's Best Cities to Work and Live" BNET

"The Economy Is Worse Than You Think
Expect more bad news until someone enacts a plan to bring deficits under control without raising taxes." WSJ, Martin Feldstein

"Why We're Going Back to Single-Sex Dorms
Student housing has became a hotbed of reckless drinking and hooking up." WSJ, John Garvey

"India's unwanted girls" BBC

"Elite South Korean University Rattled by Suicides" NYTimes

The Google+ Project: A Quick Look

Asian/American/Actor: Overcoming Yellow Face

Our good friend, Dave, is in David Henry Hwang's "Yellow Face", which is playing at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago June 14 - July 17.

Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO (Part II)

Part Deux of my prior piece at Technorati Tech covering Legalzoom, Zynga, and Gilt.

"Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO (Part II)"

News & Links List

"Why Either of these Two Asians Should Be Yahoo!’s Next CEO" Forbes

"The Real Reason There Was No Email On The BlackBerry PlayBook" Business Insider

"What Every Startup Can Learn From AirBnB" GigaOm

"Most Influential Women In Tech 2011" Fast Company

"Web Start-Ups Get Upper Hand Over Investors" WSJ

"Over Half Of VC Firms Have Shut Down, And Many More Are Dying" Business Insider

"12 Things To Know About Raising Seed Financing" Business Insider

"What’s The Real Deal With AngelList?" TechCrunch

"How to Raise Venture Capital" Quicksprout, Neil Patel

"The End Of Blippy As We Know It" TechCrunch

"Google Sued by PayPal Over Claims It Stole Trade Secrets" Bloomberg

"Killer Quora Thread is a Treasure Trove for Early Adopters" ReadWriteWeb

"Self-Published Author Sells a Million E-Books on Amazon" ReadWriteWeb

"Why do I keep coming back to the Nexus S?" This is my next.

"The dark side of South Korean pop music" BBC

"JERRY BROWN'S BUDGET DISASTER" Powerwall

"Christian Faith Requires Accepting Evolution" The Huffington Post

Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO, Who Are the Pretenders and the Real Deals?

My short piece over at Technorati's Tech Channel is up. Quick and easy ask since they requested short posts. 20 minutes to spare after our girls go down :)

"Tech Draft 2011: After Their IPO, Who Are the Pretenders and the Real Deals?"

Sung-Bong Choi on Korea's Got Talent

Old clip that made the rounds on Facebook a couple weeks ago. Then emails from people like my parents. Then I got emails from non-Koreans, so this deserved a repost. Great story about Sung-Bong Choi, who grew up as a homeless orphan.

Samuel L. Jackson narrates "Go the Fuck to Sleep"

Hilarious. A "children's" book for adults. Video embedded if you want to hear Samuel Jackson narrate. I'm RIGHT HERE. Our girls take at least an hour to go to sleep every night over the past several months. First, they were kicking and screaming, "Ouuutt!! 10 mo minutes!" Now they make me sing Old MacDonald at least 15 times each night with requests, rejections and repeats... "NO! Pig is out! Daddy, sing 'blue penguin'... Now, sing 'scary dinosaur'. No, two 'scary dinosaur'..."

News & Links List

"Facebook Valuation Nowhere Near $100 Billion: Analyst" CNBC

"Why Groupon Is Poised For Collapse" TechCrunch

"The checkered past of Groupon's chairman" Fortune

"Groupon’s Founders Make Words Pay, But for Whom?" peHUB

"The Biggest Red Flag In The Groupon IPO Isn't The Sea Of Red Ink" Business Insider

"Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal" Short Logic

"The need for an Alternative to Facebook" Altly Blog

"Why it's harder to make money on Android than on Apple's iOS" Fortune

"Google Acquires Postrank: A Fork in the Road for the Future of Social Media" ReadWriteWeb

"EBay acquires Magento, builds a commerce OS" GigaOm

"What Makes A Startup Successful? Blackbox Report Aims To Map The Startup Genome" TechCrunch

"SV Angel: “We Won’t Pass On Old Entrepreneurs”" TechCrunch

"Every Entrepreneur Needs to Outwit the Devil" Forbes

"The 7 signs of failure for internet startups" VentureBeat, Bjoern Lasse Herrmann

VenCorp & The Kauffman Foundation's PitchU Contest

Just posting news about VenCorp's PitchU contest where startups can win up to $25,000 for their company. Here's the overview:

1. Submit your 2-minute elevator pitch to YouTube and tag it as "PitchUniversity".
• send the link to info@vencorps.com
• remember to keep it PG, folks!

2. Receive feedback from our expert judges and the startup community via our PitchU video Library.

3. Once a month our judges will choose one pitch to win $5,000 cash. No equity. No fuss. Period. The best-of-the-best will be invited to the VenCorps™ community for a chance at winning a $25,000 investment!

ESPN: "Failing to Measure Up to MJ"

48% shooting percentage in the NBA Finals? Are you kidding me, Scottie? LeBron has to shoot like 70% to catch up to his Airness.

Best LeBron Joke of the Week

This one has been going around a lot about LeBrick... love it:

I asked LeBron if I could borrow a dollar and he gave me 75 cents.

"Hey, where's the other twenty-five, King?"

He said, "Sorry, I dont have a 4th quarter..."

The Colbert Report: Paul Revere's Famous Ride

HatTip to Shawn C. Hilarious...

"Stephen proves that Paul Revere could have ridden a horse while ringing a bell and firing multiple warning shots from a front-loading musket."

The Colbert Report
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When Is Linkedin Integrating with Foursquare?

I was traveling to NYC and CT this past weekend and using Foursquare, Facebook, and Yelp to check-in at various locations. I know I am a bit of an outlier when it comes to location-based apps, but I was wishing that Linkedin was integrated with Foursquare.

I assume there are a fair amount of users like me who separate their professional and personal world between Linkedin and Facebook instead of having all your online connections on Facebook. Currently, when I check in on Foursquare I usually turn-on the Twitter notification and selectively turn-on the Facebook notification. Then I thought it would be nice to not only selectively inform my Facebook friends about my Foursquare check-ins, but also to do the same with my professional contacts on Linkedin.

If Linkedin wants to be the professional alternative to Facebook, I believe they should start providing such alternatives.

Introducing Cube Dog!

Checkout and download my friend's app from the Apple Store, especially if you have kids.

Pippen is a Fool. Video: "Michael Jordan - How Quickly They Forget (MJ vs Lebron)"

I don't know what Pippen and the minority meatheads are talking about. LeBron is still LeBrick to me with under 2 minutes to go. Kobe is a crunchtime player. Wade is. MJ was the greatest crunchtime player. MJ was a worse passer? He averaged a triple double when he wanted to. Please.


UPDATE: Mavs win game two and Magic summed it up best: "The difference between game one and game two tonight was that Wade closed out game one and LeBron closed out game two... Wade should have taken the ball from LeBron..."

Ark, Internet for Good

Just came across this new service, Ark. I don't know anyone there or have any affiliation. I like their concept and promotional video. Hope they kickass. Info from their site:

Ark is the online personal fundraising solution for everyone! We at Ark understand that many of us do not have enough time or money to support the causes we care deeply about. That is why we created Ark, to give everyone a chance to donate with no investment of extra time or money required.

Whether you know it or not many of the activities you perform on the Internet every day generate a great deal of money for the websites you are using. Ark's technology and partnerships allow you to continue using these same websites in exactly the same ways, but give you the power to direct a substantial portion of the revenue that you generate to whatever cause, charity, or school that you want to support. This is Ark, your Internet for good™.

Technovation Challenge Spring 2011 Winners: Sparkling APPles!

Christine has been mentoring a team of high school girls on developing an idea for mobile phone app and creating a business plan around it. Last week this team won the national contest which is called Technovation Challenge. Congratulations to Diana Gong, Evaline Tsai, Rachel Shaffer, Shalmali Joshi and Sravya Patnala! And their teaching assistant, Diane Kreil!

They created an app called “I.O.U.” which plans to help people keep track of loaned and borrowed items, which is a common problem on college campuses. More info is here.