We just took our Christmas photos for our friends and family and it turned out great. I thought the park setting may not work, however with the right lighting it came out perfect.
Srey, Paul, and Me
Sometimes I wonder about things and ask myself, why is this not easier? Sometimes when I am surfing the internet looking for a phone number. I find it, then I have to dial it on a phone or in Skype. Which is one extra step I don’t want to have to do. I just discovered that there is a callto:// URL where one can specify a phone number in HTML. I figured there had to be some easy way to tag phone numbers so that they can be a clickable link. Everyone should do this to allow for easier connection via web to phone. Yet getting everyone to adopt a new idea generally takes time.
So, considering every web master in the world is not going to jump up and edit all of those pages with phone numbers. It would seem possible that maybe a grease monkey script would be able to recognize phone numbers and turn them into callto: links. Well someone has all ready created this. Callto Linkify (for Skype)
Gotta love the internet. Thanks to Aaron Boodman (you have saved me soo much time!) for Grease Monkey and Boris Yim for this handy Skype-ification!
I sat down today with a day care center that had a specific need to process a child from check in to check out, but it had to do hourly totals with diapers etc etc. I have to stop here because I thought of the title by Marc, “The world is flat and it spins damn fast” I realize that the world is as fast as a person can process information, however it must fulfill a need in their life for instance like paying bills, buying stuff, and of course the all mighty email.
I decided to write my first blog ever about my favorite holiday and why it should go down in history as the best holiday ever. To begin I would like to state my background on holidays. My birthday is on St. Patrick’s Day, my mother’s is on Flag Day, and my brother’s is sometimes is on Thanksgiving, Christmas is always a challenge, and can you count how many people actually remember New Year’s Eve. So let us start at the beginning of the year and go through each holiday to find the evidence that Thanksgiving is truly the greatest holiday champion.
New Year’s Day, January 1st, the first official day of the new year to be hungover or wrapped up in college football games or the Rose Parade. Then there is every male’s favorite holiday Valentine’s Day, February 14th, we all know that Hallmark made this holiday up and no one ever has a good time. Next is one that should also be know as “Irish people are born drinkers Day”, St. Patrick’s Day, my second favorite in the line of holidays because it was the day I was born. Following St. Patty’s Day is Easter, and to be honest the reason I do not like this holiday is because most people serve ham and I do not like ham. (Disclaimer: most of my criteria for the Best Holiday revolves around food). The next holiday, I bet, most people do not even know exists, Flag Day, June 14th, basically we do nothing on this day. Now we have the ultimate in Patriotism, Independence Day, July 4th, also known as the highest number of Emergency Room visits Day. Need I explain more. Moving on to Halloween, October 31st, who doesn’t like to dress up and each a bunch of candy in a fantasy world? I will go into detail about Thanksgiving, 3rd Thursday of November, later on in this blog. And finally we have Christmas, December 25th, there are two ways to look at Christmas, the religious way, and the greedy way.
And now we get to dive deep into what makes Thanksgiving the ultimate Holiday. Let us start with the food, who can resist the mouth watering, golden bird, the turkey. There are many ways to cook the bird, but in the end it is all the same and delicious. Then you have all the trimmings mashed potatoes, stuffing, “cornbake” (a delicious chunky cornbread), some kind of green vegetable, and our favorite Pumpkin Pie. With all this you get an entire day to be glutenous and give thanks to things that you normally take for granted every other day. So case in point the reason that Thanksgiving is the best Holiday is basically because of delicious food and to give thanks for things.
Now that we are well knowledgeable around what makes ai holiday the best, let us take the time and give thanks for Thanksgiving.
Steve Rubel’s post “The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid” last week was certainly something that took me a while to digest. I read about it in Robert Scobel’s tweets half an hour after it was published, but for some reason I couldn’t touch it until today, even though I had to think about it ever since…
He wrote “Let’s face it, we’re skunk drunk and it’s because of money. It’s almost like we all need to enter Betty Ford Clinic 2.0 together”… “The bubble really began in earnest on October 9, 2006 when Google bought YouTube. That’s when every person with an entrepreneurial itch woke up and smelled the hype and money. Prior to then, startups were more focused on the entrance, not the exit”… “I miss the days of 2004 when the class that includes Flickr, del.icio.us and others started. They really were about changing the web, not making a quick buck (they did so only because they added value)”, and he closes with “However, most of the rest of today’s net startups are only after the almighty dollar and while that’s capitalism, it saddens me because it has done little but breed hubris.”
This post caused immediate and very mixed reactions in the bloggerssphere…
Richard MacManus wrote in his post Poll: Are We Still Changing the Web? “the Web is still changing - despite the seeming lack of new innovative startups”, and he mentions innovative technology happening in the mobile web space and how social networks are showing signs of opening up.
Ok, so there is still innovation going on, but what is the driving force behind it?
John Heilemann wrote in his post Web Bubble 2.0 “Well, maybe it is a bubble. But out in Silicon Valley, they don’t think of that as a bad thing at all.”… “A year ago, the burgeoning social-networking outfit Facebook was nearly bought by Yahoo for $1 billion; today, the price tag is $15 billion”… “More than 1.3 billion consumers around the world now use the Internet, and the global growth curve is steep. Meanwhile, the main source of unbridled mania in the nineties, IPOs, are a nonfactor this time around. Instead, the boom is being driven by giants with riverine profit flows and vast reservoirs of cash”.
Howard Lindzon wrote in his post Social Networks… Why Not Undervalued? “To think that Facebook is the ultimate, or even biggest winner of this era of social networks is lazy thinking. There is too much leverage from so little to think that billions more investor capital won’t pour in to this space in the next 20 years”… “What niche will trigger the next big social networking craze and trend? That’s what you should be thinking about as an entrepreneur. The tools have never been more available and starting a company never been cheaper”
And then there was this article in the New York Times where PayPal founder Levchin says that he wouldn’t consider his latest start up Slide.com a success until it is worth “at least $1.54 billion”, and about his thoughts before he started Slide.com “I knew I wanted to be a CEO, I just didn’t know the CEO of what”… “I’d run any company; it’s completely irrelevant to me, It’s really about this drive to win”.
Good, I would like to add my 2 cents here, I think Steve Rubel is aware of the fact that the situation now is completely different from the dotcom crash, and he doesn’t claim there is no innovation going on at all anymore, but what he says is that the motives have changed, and this results in an increasing number of start ups who are only after the big bucks. Most commentators read who disagree with Steve simply refer back to there is still a lot of money to make with internet startups.
Meg Whiteman recently said that what we saw in the last ten years was only a warm up for what is coming in the next ten years, and I agree, but at the same time I think the once so beautiful idea of the world wide web has changed, it has turned into a money making machine, a successful one though…