Archive for April, 2006

  • Hours a Week Gaming?

    Hours a Week Gaming?

    Stanford University recently provided and interesting statistic for how many Hours a Week Gaming the average gamer participates in. The average gamer of Mass Multi Player games such as World of Warcraft or Half-Life spend an average of 20 hours a week playing. The average console gamer spends about 7 hours a week gaming. Many [...]

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  • Blogging Gone Bad

    Blogging Gone Bad

    What do you do when your corporate blog goes bad? Blogging Gone Bad is one of the top fears of corporate bloggers. According to a recent article in Inc. Magazine (Nov 2005), Sixteen percent of the U.S. population reads blogs. They also cite Technorati as saying that the number of blogs double every 5 1/2 [...]

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  • Cell Phone Sports

    Cell Phone Sports

    Cell phones are now being used at pro sports stadiums in an interesting way.  Thanks to BusinessWeek Jan 9, 2006 edition for this one on Cell Phone Sports.  Imagine that you go to watch your favorite pro sports team, and you can vote on the songs that are played and send messages to the scoreboard [...]

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  • New Number One Companies

    New Number One Companies

    BusinessWeek in Jan 0, 2006 edition noted that this year there will be a lot of New Number One Companies. Here are a few: Pepsi will beat out Coke in stock market cap for the first time SBC will beat out Verizon WAMCO will beat out PIMCO AMGEN will beat out GENENTECH I think it [...]

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  • Firefox Plugin for Blogging

    Firefox Plugin for Blogging

    Performancing has a great plugin for firefox that makes blogging even easier. If you are looking for a great Firefox Plugin for Blogging, check this out. This is my first test of the service, but it is great for blogging while browsing. Here is the link: http://performancing.com/. The steps are a little confusing, but part [...]

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  • Multiplayer Games and Movies

    Multiplayer Games and Movies

    Interesting article in BusinessWeek on Multiplayer Games and Movies. There are many projects going on like “Project 880″ for example that is putting a game on the market to promote an upcoming film. The creator of the film project, James Cameron is known for directing Aliens, The Terminator, and Titanic. I think this is very [...]

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  • April Utah Entrepreneurs

    April Utah Entrepreneurs

    The Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum last Thursday featured some great April Utah Entrepreneurs. The presenters were all from BYU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and it was hosted by John Richards of the Center for Entrepreneurship. I took notes on my Blackberry, and I am really getting use to utilizing the power of this mobile device, it [...]

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  • Alexa's New Traffic Feature

    Alexa's New Traffic Feature

    There is a great new feature from Alexa. Alexa’s New Traffic Feature is called “Max”. It is an option to see more than two years history of traffic. It looks like it goes back 4 1/2 years for any website. Check it out here: Alexa

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  • Outsourcing Personal Assistant from Philippines

    Outsourcing Personal Assistant from Philippines

    During the past few months, I have had a personal assistant from the Philippines. He works for me between 7pm and 3am my local time. The intention of doing this was to see if I could delegate some of my responsibilities to my personal assistant. Here is a summary of my experience so far: 1. [...]

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  • 1 in 13 Homes in California

    1 in 13 Homes in California

    Interesting statistic in BusinessWeek Feb 6, 2006 edition on real estate in California during 2005. The stat is 1 in 13 Homes in California sold for over one million during 2005. It is also interesting to note that California has some of the most over priced areas in the nation, by some numbers homes are [...]

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