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Seth Godin’s Simple five step plan for just about everyone and everything

On 2010/05/25 By daniel

The number of people you need to ask for permission keeps going down:

1. Go, make something happen.

2. Do work you’re proud of.

3. Treat people with respect.

4. Make big promises and keep them.

5. Ship it out the door.

When in doubt, see #1.

Seems simple and obvious right? [...]

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Ditch the Biz Plan, Buy a Lottery Ticket

On 2010/04/24 By daniel

Vivek Wadhwa is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School and Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke University.

In a Tech Crunch post, he suggests this:

“Hardly a day goes by when I [...]

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Google Translate for Animals

On 2010/03/31 By daniel

Google Translate for Animals.

Introducing Translate for Animals (beta): Bridging the gap between animals and humans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I24bSteJpw

Making the world’s information universally accessible is a key goal for Google. Language is one of our biggest challenges so we have targeted our efforts on removing language barriers [...]

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FTC to Internet Companies: Start Using SSL | Electronic Frontier Foundation

On 2010/03/19 By daniel

It’s about time…

In a speech before an Federal Trade Commission roundtable yesterday, outgoing FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour called on Web services services like Yahoo!, Facebook and Hotmail to start using HTTPS/SSL encryption.

Google has recently shown leadership in this space, by enabling HTTPS for Gmail, as well as making it the default [...]