THE DREAM IN ACTION

Let me introduce you to James Karl Buck. He is the guy that was released from a Mahalla jail after sending a one-word tweet from his cell phone to Twitter. The message of “Arrested” alerted all of his followers on the site of his detention. The message caused his college to hire a lawyer for [...]

This is a pretty cool site that lets you search a persons Seesmic videos visually using the thumbnails that are created for each video. As you can see from the screen shot it is not that useful for finding a specific video because really it just becomes a collage of thumbnails of the same persons [...]

As more and more of my projects move online I find myself worrying about web strategy more and more. As a “blogger” (I hate that name) who is becoming more transparent to the world everyday, “personal brand strategy” is very important. Karen O’Brien writes a web strategy blog and in this post explains how web [...]

Over the past 3 months I have traveled tons! Lets just put it this way, since I moved to Milwaukee in late December 07 I’ve put 10k miles on my Pathfinder. Crazy! Plus a flight to Kansas City and a flight to Charlotte. So I began tracking my trips using the awesome travel social network [...]

Recently I’ve had a strong urge to share some of the small financial success I’ve had. I also have been searching for new and interesting investment opportunities. With Kiva.org I found both. Kiva is the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world. The people you [...]

In the midst of Twitter’s ever so obvious struggles it was only a matter of time before competition entered the market. With the growth that Twitter has experienced (doubling in March/April 08) it was obvious that there were going to be copy cats. Plurk is the only site that I’ve seen that is getting ‘tons’ [...]

Kevin Rose of Digg stated today on Seesmic that next week when the 3G iPhone is rumored to be released, there will be an even bigger announcement…ready… A $200 dollar iPhone may be released next week. This opens up a huge market. All those folks who thought it was rediculous to spend 4-5 hundred on [...]

Yesterday Gary and Kevin were together in Vegas and took an hour or so just to answer questions people had on Seesmic. A few notes on this: Seesmic is obviously sweet and is going to last. The big names are buying in. Kevin and Gary combined have phenomenal insights into building web companies and communities. [...]