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Here is a link to a PDF summary. Now just waiting for the President to sign it. http://tax.cchgroup.com/downloads/files/pdfs/legislation/bus...

I have spent a lot of time on this over the past few weeks. I'm amazed at how few CPA's actually understand this legislation.

I crossed that chasm a long time ago with gmail.

Evernote is a genius utility that was not completely obvious to me until a few months ago. Here's my take:

You can store anything in it, and does text recognition on photos for later searching. My scanner is hooked up to it - I scan everything and dump it in there. Receipts, statements, bills, correspondence, contracts, whatever.

You can dump any document into it, tag it, put in a notebook, whatever.

It works across my complete tech stack: Iphone, Ipad, MacBook, Imac and web when needed.

Switching to a new computer/device is completely painless. Install the app, login, your environment is duplicated from the cloud. Perfect every time.

I have tried every task and todo system under the sun, as well as note takers, folder sync systems, etc. Instead of worrying about where all the files are, whether they are syncing or backed up, blah blah blah, whether they can connect to another pc to get the sync, etc.

This is a really strong blend of all of the above. You can implement a GTD system if you wish, etc. etc. etc.

All my "stuff" is with me wherever I go now.

I also use omnifocus for project stuff, fwiw. Works across my entire tech stack and syncs really well too.

Google owns user generated video on the internets via the youtube acquisition. I think they paid a very, very small price for this.

And still no one knows what to do on there.

Who here is developing products relying on Twitter for their primary data stream today?

They had the world by the tail.

I never understand the hiring requirement of a degree for a startup - that is a silly way to hold your company back. The best coders and designers I have worked with have either had no degree or have an irrelevant degree. Skilled people with sharp minds will train themselves to do the things that interest them.

Having just done an exhaustive review of LBS services and systems.... a check-in is a simple game mechanic that can be useful but does not appear to be an enormous tentpole for an entire eco-system to develop around. Literally hundreds of apps, games and services are launching around the check-in as we speak. They are going to have a difficult time getting traction.

One of our startups just did launched several high-profile retailers onto Foursquare, gowalla, mytown and others with great incentives for checking in... and the check-ins were simply too underwhelming too continue with the program.

It is going to be darned near impossible to come up with a service that will get the needed critical mass. Facebook is the likely service to use, but people aren't flocking to check-ins there either.

And this legend in the making needs to lose the hideous glasses. It's not a good trademark.

There, now I can be positive for the rest of the day.

If the viewers and/or pageviews or what not are going to be aggregated for the purpose of ad sales, or traffic projections for selling the sites to an acquirer, I would go with a single domain with subdomains. It is a much simpler, easier story for everyone to understand and builds the main brand so much better.

Been there done that on separate domains. Won't do it again.

I see your points but I think this is overly harsh. You aren't experiencing this first hand - you are reading a summation after the fact and making a quick judgement. This possibly is all happening like a slow motion car wreck.

There are a number of dynamics at play in a situation like this and it can get very confusing, very quickly. The new guy is both an investor whose money they are currently spending and also an employee which blurs the lines on how to manage a relationship like this.

I have seen these kinds of relationships blow up before and when you are a young and inexperienced entrepreneur you don't know whether to engage him, disengage and get attorneys involved or just go crazy. Sometimes it looks like the other guy is holding all the cards.

This doesn't scream clueless, it screams confused and not sure whether to spend scarce resources on attorneys. Next time they will have an attorney standing by.

1995: The best deal I could find was $1500 a month for 1mbit, (I was spending (in 1995 dollars)) $4500 for 3mbit, and I spent 5k or so building the server for what would become planetquake.com

What is happening now in both available (and free!) cloud computing resources and the entire lean startup mentality is so far beyond my comprehension I don't even know how to compare the two startup worlds of 1995 and 2010.

Lordy!

I bought the first generation macbook air (with SSD) when it first hit the stores and it was almost worth it just for the "wow" factor at conferences. I put it on the table at a meeting and an EA exec yelled "hey, why don't you just slam your huge elephant dick on the table?". That was worth $10 right there.

Anyhow I always found it to be unbearably slow - particularly when browsing to a new web server in a session. As if the dns lookup was.... thrashing somehow. I figured I was too dimwitted to figure out the problem after doing a bit of research, so it's rotting on the shelf.

Also, Marco is right - it's way too big to use in coach when the person in front leans back. Thankfully.... Ipad for air travel. Be curious to see what the 11" is like.

Wow! Great game - and multiplayer too. How long has it bee around?

Back in the "old days" you had, in my opinion, even worse issues with Media Metrix and Nielsen. They were the real gangsters - and it was really expensive. Comscore was the new kid on the block and tried harder to get good data out there. I don't recall any extortion from them.

When someone is running a business I think it's a good idea to focus on the business and not on various crusades. Whenever I see someone behaving like this I'm glad I'm not an investor with them. Watch what happens with Mahalo - all these shenanigans and the ceo's focus on angel investing tell me that the level of his interest in his startup isn't all that great.

Or he's magically talented and can do it all while building a great business.

I can only imagine how difficult it is to pitch a product to someone who isn't there to listen to a pitch while being filmed by two separate crews. It would be really hard not to look like a dildo.

We've known for over a decade now since Napster that artists would need / could get other revenue from online to make up for declining music sales.

It's cool that Tom is actually trying to participate in the changes rather than just bitch about the state of the industry as 999/1000 of them do.

I've gone the other direction. I have the latest Kindle but I don't bother using it - I read all my Kindle purchases on the Iphone. It's always with me and I love the screen. I would sell it but I think I have to have one active to purchase items for my account.