THE DREAM IN ACTION

On December 9, 1914, disaster struck the laboratories and factories of inventor Thomas Edison. Great geysers of green flame, fueled by chemicals, shot into the air, and the fire departments of eight nearby towns rushed to the scene. Numerous fire fighters and volunteers were overcome, and one Edison worker was killed. Edison’s son, Charles, was [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

I once again feel obligated to apologize for my post bashing the Twitter faithfuls. It is truly an awesome and affective web app! I am now fully on board and would encourage any of you who are not yet sold to try it again. It took me two tries to see how useful the tool [...]

18 minutes is all the time one is allowed to speak at TED. 18 minutes to give the best talk of their life. No pressure… TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader The [...]

This start-up is attempting to combine a social network of “start-uppers” and a nifty little AI tool that will predict the probability of success of a start-up. The community side is to fill in gaps for new companies. Example: you need a PM, graphic designer, lawyer? might help you do it. This is something that [...]

Yesterday I had an opportunity to speak with Gary Reiner, CIO of General Electric and ask him anything that I wanted. It was part of my new gig in a GE leadership training program. I don’t discuss my job here on ActionsTalk but this experience and opportunity forced me to break that rule. Here are [...]

Forbes.com release its second annual top 25 Web celebs recently and the list is interesting. Although I would consider myself pretty knowledgeable as far as what is going on on the web with start-ups and other Web 2.0 topics there are some bloggers and other web celebs in this list that I wasn’t familiar with. [...]

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 [...]

Q: What is your great opportunity Ryan… A: Well, I can’t go into it in detail… for very un-obvious reasons, how every I think that if a person our age is presented a great opportunity it is foolish for that person to not take FULL advantage of it… I’ll expand on this later, when I feel comfortable… I understand [...]

  Yesterday was Blog Action Day.  An organized effort by over 15,000 bloggers to discuss different ways to give back to Mother Earth.  It was a day to post  something related to giving back to the environment and being “green”.  Obviously, I missed it.  I was a day late but I’m still going to try and make [...]