TC50 & Digital Intimacy: Your own trivial thing might be worth something.

TechCrunch 50: An online madhouse if ever there was one.

Find the best start-ups and launch them in front of the industry’s most influential VCs, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs and press.
A look at all the preps and coordinated online activity! Exciting!

How Twitter can help at work. It's not just a waste of time, you know.

HR stuff is never easy. Tackling underperformers. Ain't just a matter of bunny food.

Personal branding, anyone? Free ebook from Chris Brogan.

Genetics: Future commercial implications.

Chrome: An attempt to corner a SaaS market.

What has Web 2.0 brought that is really been a delight. Word clouds! Create your own with Wordle.

Social Media Marketing Examples. Just so you know it isn't fiction or something people just made up.

For most who haven't tried it, it can be a bit weird. Digital intimacy is like omnipresence in the online world. What kind of marketer wouldn't want that? Read on if you still don't get facebook, twitter and social networks.

10 Mobile Apps launching in DEMO!

Innovation Trouble at the Silicon Valley? Move to Portland!

Innovation

I know that Judy Estrin is just promoting a book but it really is something worth reading and discussing not just with tech companies in Silicon Valley but more importantly, among educational systems globally, too.

Really took some time to digest as many posts I could find on her book and even on other ideas about innovation yet the one thing that really struck deep is the value of 'embracing risk' as a support to innovation (see video). Indeed, there seems nothing better like comfort and financial considerations to whet the appetite for further ideas or need to find a better way but pretty soon we all have to face the consequences of a bland life if we let it be.

I get up and nothing gets me down...

I just wish that more societies and companies do place importance on keeping innovation among its priorities. Maybe it would be in the form of rewards or incentives, who knows? But we need leaders. It's the only way to go in order to create a dynamic, living world.

I wish I'm doing my share starting with these resources.

Scoble video with Ms. Estrin.
Accidents lead to Innovation paper from MIT.
Scott says it isn't innovation but sure is close...

Web and elsewhere

Has it been a decade already? Happy Birthday, Google! Want to know if what you're going through is normal? Here's a guide.

Facebookers, beware. Malicious Apps out to spoil your fave pastime.

Tired of yapping blindly over online chat while showing someone how to use a site. Use Screen2.

You're a much organized person obsessing over your Twitter friends. Twitly - groups for Twitter.

Metrics, stats, and data will never be boring again! Highly-recommended! ManyEyes. If you need help, visit Rich Hoeg's site for excellent tutorial on this and many more at E-content. Cannot say enough and thanks to NYT for the feature...

No more MuxTape, boohoo RIAA! Next please, TumblTape!

Another thing we can't get enough of, free file-hosting. File Savr!

Blogging 101. IBM-Certified.


There's plenty of reasons to fall in love with Portland! I remember talking way back then with a visitor who was from there and actually raved about it. He said that it has the warmth of a small city, very unlike El Ay? Me, I'm a big fan of the new Blazers especially the team this coming season with Roy, Oden, Aldridge and Fernandez. Hope they bring in some wins and make the playoffs. It sure does seem Portland is getting a lot of looks and love these days and great to hear that Morph Labs' going to be in pretty cool company.

Rails in Windy City and Some

Rails is coming up big in the Windy City on the 20th of September. So if you were planning to attend but do not have a ticket yet, I've got bad news and good news for you.

Bad news is that there are no more tickets. Nada. None even if you show up on the door come event time.

Good news is Morph Labs is giving you a chance. Just go here and subscribe to the Morph newsletter in the lower-right corner. Then, send an email to Manuel letting him know that you have signed up and that you would like to be considered for the drawing. Three names will be randomly chosen from all who enter. Good luck.

Web.
Forget about Chrome for now and try Navigaya, instead!

I'm getting the hang of using socialmedian. Now they are getting an upgrade about newstreaming. Read more about it here.

You have a good software you plan to offer online? Remember, it won't sell itself so you better roll up your sales sleeves and work on it says the Wall Street Journal. Here's help for entrepreneurs from Stanford.

School of Everything. What we need more of. Or maybe it's too early for this.

Drive Backup 9 Express. So you won't wring your neck because of lost PC data and stop lusting over Time Machine. More importantly, it's also free!

Early adopter debate. Haven't read anything like this in a while. Fiery comments, not for the faint-hearted.

Besides the planet, do you know what's dying? This one's got the stats to prove it. Print newspapers.

What's in store for the XML Superstar?

As the contest officially rolls on, we got a peek at the prizes in store for the contest winners courtesy of Adam Gartenberg.

And the contest prizes are not to shabby, either:

All-expense paid trips to an IBM or IDUG industry conference
A Segway i2 personal transport system
New laptops
A Nintendo Wii system
and of course, interviews and lab visits (for students), and more

So head over to the official site and find out if the contest has started in your country or register ot get updates on the schedule.

You can also join in the fun by going here. (Now where can I get the stickers?)

Search for the next XML Superstar is sponsored by IBM and IDUG with Morph Labs as host.

Chrome -matic: No such thing as 'Just Surfing the Web' Now

I will dip my hand in the hoopla by offering my five centavos's worth - which means nothing really. I just had spent more than 4 hours using Google's new shiny browser and tried to do some good, old regular surfing. So, here are my thoughts partially done using Chrome.

1. It's big! No unnecessary clutter and the browsing window seems the biggest among the different browsers. Even the download page/tab is unusually big!

2. It blends seamlessly with Windows. Blue and white design is both Google and MSFT. You can't tell who made who (except for the logo which isn't Chrome to me at all)

3. We saw it coming and besides many have been doing it for quite some time now. It's official: URL and search box combined.

4. New tab page is a beauty but it still is no Instapaper but close. But you can do away keeping gazillion of tabs open. Neat.

5. Dynamic tabs moving in and out of Window is neat. Score another point over Mozilla.

6. So where do I install the widgets? My take? See that 'Star' shape on the left side of the URL? Insert those widgets there and and make them available via drop down options.

7. Hiding something? Good for you there's Incognito! I've read some also refer to it as 'porn mode'. Ha.

8. Haven't crashed yet. So far. According to them, tabs run independently. (Not quite, I guess. Clang, pfft.)

9. Great tool for those who have Google Home Pages. The takeover is almost complete and your personalized web stats is already on its way to the Google database.

10. Shortcuts are no problem as they are same with Firefox. No brainer.

Cloud OS? More Chrome here.

Elixir of Life

It has been 12 days already since I started coughing, well most of us in the household fell ill within that span. Maybe it's the germs or the decreased body resistance but whatever it is, the pharmacy sure made a killing on us. The strange thing is, I don't feel I've recovered yet. I may have been taking the wrong kind of medicines or maybe it must be age telling me to keep it slow. Well, try telling that to my kid. I think she holds the answers. Let me just try prying her off me and get her a real horse or carabao, instead.

Anyway, can't stop now...



Wonder is an Elixir of Life. And Science can take you there most of the time. Wired on Science

Mobile:
Will BlackBerry boldly beat off ‘killer’ iPhone in competitive business market?
BlackBerry and Palm’s dominance of the business market is to be tested

Mobile App Madness: For Google Android.

Touchscreen Phone Options in case you don't like iPhone.

Mr Wilcox doesn't just post his thoughts, he also knows how to create a scene. His trouble with Kindle and his praise of Apple

Cloud Meet:

Know what EBS of AWS Is? Learn here.

Cloud Futures in London 2009.

Productivity and Fun:

12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today. Maximizing web connectivity. That said, my internet was down for almost the entire weekend. Nuts.

Video Gadgets. Ain't Christmas yet but you can now write your wishes, Youtubers!

Elephant in the Room: Ubiquity and Outages

Introducing:

Everything, everywhere. Mozilla's Ubiquity - because Mashups are so tedious.

Cloud infrastructure provider Amazon isn't done at all, launches EBS. Woohoo. Naysayers follow.

Fact of IT: Everything crashes at one point or another so why single out the cloud for that. Tsk, tsk..

Nothing like malware to spoil the fun at Facebook.

PR for your startup doesn't have to involve a PR company, write Mr. Calacanis. And if it is a software that you're launching, read here.