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Haiku – Startups Ain’t Sex

Somewhat seductive. Scrambled social sensations. Game changers? Yep. Schleps. inspired by Guanzhi Ma’s comment on TechCrunch article ‘rise of sensationalization of start-ups’ Brad Feld via ecorner -...

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Haiku – Content, Startups, & Tech – Weekly Review – soon via YouTube

Weekly broadcast. Soon. Net out. MegaUpload down. PandoDaily up. inspired by many things, such as ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch...

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Content Creation and Tech Startups – Week in Review – 1/14/2012 – 1/21/2012 –...

Content index listed below video. Section top-level links correspond to indicated time hacks. Weekly review also available in 480-resolution. 0:00 - Introduction Intro by Chris Augeri Recording Date –...

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Haiku – Machines, Where Us?

match scenes, every where. augmenting, assisting, think. ent - or - tain? people? partially inspired by automated humans by Troy Hunt What if we start multithreading the humans?

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Microsoft Office – convert trial from unlicensed product to activated license

Interesting ‘undocumented feature’ encounter yesterday… Sometime ago, I’d downloaded the 60-day trial software suite of Microsoft Home & Office 20110, which had since expired and converted to...

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Haiku – Humanus Computarus

discover – pearls, pin like ⋯ plus one ⋯ tweet, dig, submit comment – remember

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Startup Query – Simple School Course Registration?

Any one else out there frustrated with how archaic & arcane high school, college & other school class registration processes still are, especially when done in paper, yes in 2012? If so,...

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Truthiness Detector – Custom Search Beta

Sites such as  Snopes, Fact or Fiction, & Politifact abound. Introducing the ‘truthiness detector’, a search engine for fact-checking sites around the web. First release in series of experiments...

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Digg Digest – Reddit Record Visits

In an ironic crowd-sourcing twist, the top staff pick from my most recent Digg Digest, was wait for it… wait for it… …that a record number of folks visited reddit on Monday, 1/23/2012 – more than...

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Omaha Coffee Shops!

Today’s topic? Highlighting the power of mashing up Factual data, BatchGeo  geo-encoding, and A.PlaceBetween.Us meetup flashmob planning. Today’s chosen real-world “pain point” app? Discovering coffee...

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ThoughtPuzzle, Forest Road, & Life

A friend recently asked if I’m still blogging at Forest Road. Short answer – yes. More complete answer – swamped since February with founding a company, ThoughtPuzzle LLC. Our primary site is...

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Disruptive Innovation – On Encountering the Discoverable

Disruptive innovation. What is it? Where does it thrive? My opinion – go to intersection of the possible & probable. A classic 2-dimensional plot simplifies this perspective: Thus, innovations we...

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Time Travel via Google Custom Search

Google Custom Search enables anyone to create a niche search of the web, also known as a vertical search engine. Google provides many knobs and dials for tuning your niche search engine, such...

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Idea – Stove Burner Pressure Sensors

Bob, a work-at-home software developer, is hungry. Being a bit rushed that day, he sets the burner on high and brings some soup to a boil. Soup ready, he removes it from the burner and sits down to...

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Emergency Siren Detectors – Vehicle, Traffic Signals, Mobile Apps

So I’ve wondered about siren sensors at vehicle intersections and other places several times over the last few years. While taking a quick break procrastinating before diving into my next project, I...

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Negotiating with yourself – or, dreaming about New Year Resolutions

I’ve always creating New Year’s Resolutions to be somewhat passé, especially with respect to the mere act of selecting externally defined goals. I think what perturbs me listening to folks describe...

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Function and Control Keys for Life

Most of us have used the copy, paste, redo, & undo functions in our favorite app. The gurus among us like to use keyboard shortcuts for these familiar functions. So what about having some function...

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Fish like a geek

One of my current activities is teaching a technology innovation course in Creighton University’s MBA program. A core part of our discussion focuses on solving business challenges with the most...

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The Human Data Torrent

So yeah, everyone’s all excited about storing stuff in the cloud – files, backups, sharing, collaboration, etc. Most of this shift is coming about because (a) bandwidth is becoming cheap and (b)...

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Transactional Computing – Machines as Dance Partners in the Singularity

Lots of folks talk about the allegedly forthcoming singularity, when we enter the age of transhumanism, cyborgs, and related geekitude. What will we experience? When will it arrive? Is it a real...

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