THE DREAM IN ACTION

Symbaloo is taking on the bold challenge of entering the customized start page arena. With giants like iGoogle and NetVibes dominating, it is a very competitive market to attack but Symbaloo has a very clean design that just may catch on.  Using the default size of 10×6 a user has 52 blocks to customize with links and drop-downs.  [...]

I purchased the SCH-u740 (see image) two weeks ago and now have had some time to play with almost all the features it has to offer.  What makes the phone special at first glance is its 2 way flip feature. For normal phone calls it flips open vertically just like the Razor or any other [...]

  This new start-up is the classic example of, “if there is a need, there is money to be made”.  The story of this start-up (as told on TechCrunch) begins when founder Mat Mullen had his iPod stolen last year in Silicon Valley. He decided that there needed to be a way to resolve the huge problem [...]

  Today the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ) released that they would be creating an “internet index” that will follow many of the large internet companies (i.e. Google, Yahoo) and other publicly traded internet companies.  As Duncan Riley on TechCrunch speculated, it is likely that any good or bad news around Google would [...]

This is ActionsTalk’s first holiday post and boy am I excited! For the Holiday, not the post. This Thankgiving I’ll be headed south from Chicago to Kansas City on the busiest travel day of the year. The weather is turning for the worst and my flight is delayed 2.5 hours.  I’m very anxious for the [...]

Version 3.0 of the logo is out and on display. (Top left) Feedback in welcome! Please comment.

This is the new AmazonKindle. Let me start with, I want one. It is a wireless reading device with a hi-resolution screen. It collects reading material (newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, etc.) and is designed to replace the need of carrying a book. It is about the size of a common soft-backed book. Amazon obviously could [...]

Not that I want this to happen any time soon, but I’ve been thinking about kids, having them, and the effect they have on ones life. Joy, challenge, and the deepest possible satisfaction a human can feel are the effects that I’ve come up with.  Having kids allows one to be 100% selfless and I [...]

Milwaukee skyline On December 10 & 11 I will be moving my bed from Chicago to the lovely city of Milwaukee.  My first night living in Milwaukee with be in January as I begin my new job (much more to come on that later).  I will be sad to leave Chicago as I have had [...]

The US Dollar has decreased by roughly 12% in the last year.  This directly affects the US’s ability to hire quality individuals from other countries (outsource). As industries like technology, health-care and sciences begin to rely more on the less expensive but very well educated individuals from other countries it is very important for the [...]

Really the topic of this post is: How to write attractive headlines for your blog posts. Blog post titles are extremely important.  It is the first thing that the reader sees in their RSS, SERP (search engine results page), or social bookmarking site.  Also, your title is probably the number one thing that will affect a [...]

As I work on  logos for ActionsTalk and other projects, I found this to give me a little artistic inspiration.  I’d say this is a good place to start…

Of all the folks out in Silicon Valley rolling in the cash the ‘Googlers’ are now among the wealthiest.  Michael Arrington wrote on TechCrunch recently about how there are 1,000 Google employees who’s stock grants and options are worth, now with the recent increase in price, over $5 million. See said increase:   There are [...]

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. I’ve started using Flickr to manage the images on this site. My intent is to improve the aesthetics of the site and of the posts. Flickr automatically imports the images in the style that you choose and was very easy to set up [...]

Using the feedback that I got on the last logo post I’ve created this very simple version of the logo.  All comments are welcome, so please give feedback. I encourage you to tell me I’m an uncreative, unimaginative, piece of ____.  Just tell me something!