theprodigy

In your case I would try and participate in a lot of online communities, then have a link to your twitter and blog for all posts. Make sure you provide quality content for your blog and twitter.Some times when you make a good comment on a post people will check you out if you have a link for them to follow.

That should help out a bit.

Who invented the microprocessor?

where did these industries get started software, personal computer, internet, airline, car, etc.

Americans were the ones that created these industries and created new technologies, new needs, and new jobs. We are wealthier that other countries not just because of WWII, but because of innovation and our ability to create new industries that creates jobs and wealth.

IE, personal computers create so many jobs that no one would have thought would have existed 80 years ago.

Americans are the ones that are the forerunners of innovation. We've have created so much.

I agree with your globalization assessment, but disagree that america is at a natural disadvantage agaisnt china for the reasons you stated.

Point one is irrelevant. Lawyers make good politicians because law and creating policy are similar. JinTao's job is to be a politician provide leadership and design policy that is benefitial for the country and not be an engineer.

2. Everyone wants to out innovate us. If you innovate you can create wealth for your country. If your country cannot innovate then you are reliant on foreign direct investment and jobs from richer countries because your country cannot generate jobs and wealth itself. Innovation allows countries to control its own destiny.

3. I would agree that the pool is huge and advanced. Chinese students are well discipled and they have a lot of pressure to get advanced education, do well in school and get good jobs.The pool is so large that there are millions students with advance degrees that are unemployed living in slums near technological cities waiting for their big break because there are not enough jobs for them.

4. America is failing in science and math is a big worry. We need to create better incentives around these fields.

5. China is stealing our technology and improving on existing ones. If we don't change I see a lot of middle tier engineering jobs going to India and China.

China is good at copying technology and selling for cheaper or improving an already existing product, but real innovation, such as creating new technologies that create whole new indsutries still will be from americans.

Americans, culturally, are used to thinking outside the box, critically thinking and using their imagination in applying what they learn in new and intersting ways. Chinese work force are robotic and respect authority and have a big fear of losing face or failing.

What i am trying to say is America will come out with real innovation and china will copy it. China will also steal a lot of the low level to mid level engineering jobs, which contributes in building our middle class.

The best way we can combat this is be good parents and don't let our kids be self entitled lazy biatches and have them strive for higher education on the technical side. We should also make sure we support policies that provides an evironment that allows us to be competitve to with China and India in terms of value or put pressure on chinese and indian businesses or the countries to raise social standards of its people so the american worker is competitve.

I honestly think students study less because we can get away with it. We can study less get a little above average on tests and with grading on a curve you can get a decent grade.

Add to that a lot of students have a lot of fun alternatives to do with that extra time, ie party, hang out with friends, try to get girls, pursue other hobbies and passions.

Your app is very similar to yahoo answers. I don't think this will make a lot of money , but at least you got some real practice programming something.

Could you tell me how it is different than yahoo answers?

Dice is a well known job board for technical people.

It's no surprise social networks are based on the network effect. Usually in these industry there will be standardization, which results in one huge player that owns the vast majority of the market share and small niche players. Facebook will be the huge player.

There are apps being made that are allowing people to not get stuck to one social networking standard, but I am pessimistic of their long term success.

Facebook already is killed myspace and Hi5, the other major players will not last long. Only very niched social networking sites will.

I was just trying to say that there are talented graphic design students willing to do stuff for free to get the experience. Just go talk to some.

With the current economic climate today I think there are a lot of unemployed artists, especially the newly graduated who at the moment maybe at a dead end job, but would be willing to design a logo for the experience. I've gotten free work from artist many times. I am well connected so they may do it for me for a future gain, which I don't mind.

Furthermore, the strength of a brand and logo is dependent on how well you execute and meet the expectations of the customer. Nike, coke, etc are well know because they offer satisfying products that meets or exceeds the customers expectations. Kotler and Jagdesh Sheth both teach this. You can have the coolest logo in the world but your app, for example, sucks shit your logo means shit.

I would like to know this too.

twitter bought its logo for hella cheap, but go find an online graphical design community. Most of them are looking for any type of work to add to their portfolio and most will do it for free or on the cheap.

You can trust crowds if the crowds are made up of highly educated and enlightened people who are familiar with the topic that you are discussing, which most people are not.

will this protect against most type of falls. It looks like it works, but I need to see someone test it out before I am sold.

Google dropped the ball of Facebook and needs to seriously get caught up.

google and facebook are going to be competing in the online targeted ad space. Both have two different ways of delivering it.

Google delivers targeted ads based on intentionality. I want to buy a yoga dvd so i use google to find one and research. google then places yoga dvd ads with my search results.

Facebook approach will be provide an environment where people and their friends interact/socialize/share with each other. Facebook wants you to also share as much as possible about yourself, like what music and movies you like, etc.

This is important because every action in the facebook realm can be tracked.

For instance they have a chat, messaging, wall, etc, communication features.

Chat is an internet representation of phone calles, messaging/emails represents the internet version of snail mail, etc. So just imagine if you had the godly ability to listen to all the phone calls made in the world or read all the mail being sent through the post office. Facebook has that ability.

Facebook can have the psychographic profile of you based on what profiles you visit. If you visit the entourage, louis vuitton, etc profile pages profile can make the assumption that you are a pretentious person and target goods sold to pretentious people.

What I am getting at is facebook can track everything you do in the environment they create. This information will be more valuable the better they get at connecting the dots and developing matrixes. The infromation will also get better the more you share and willing to let other people know about you.

Facebook has ok metrics, but as time goes by they will better metrics to deliver targeted ads. The more people join and get comfortable with the more valuable facebook becomes because their data gets better. There is still a lot more room for this. What is good about facebook is people don't know they are giving up this information. So it is unbias data. People are giving up marketing information without even knowing it.

Facebook's approach to targeted ads is get the best information about you, construct a good profile of you and deliver the approporiate ads. That profile will become so valuable the more the drivers i mentioned above improve.

I am pretty sure the facebook can make money other ways, but they are sitting on a goldmine with targeted ads.

So it will be google's intentionality driven ads vs facebook real personal data driven targeted ads. Both can complement each other, but I think real personal data targeted ads is a huge market that google wants to get into because google is in the business of targeted ads plain and simple.

It is too late for Myspace to be the epicenter of the social networking movement, but Myspace can make a lot of money if it becomes a dating site.

I hate that everyone is clowning on my generation. That is so shady dog.

All I got to say is America has the best incentive system in the world, meaning hard work will be rewarded.

Though there will be those losers in my gerneration you described there will still be people out there who will make up for the losers short fall because they want to get that chedda.

It would be nice to have a database of stories, successses or failures from entrepreneurs. It would be great motivation and educational.

Jason is for sure not a millionaire, but in his article he just outlines some good tips on how to identify an opportunity.

I got my first job through a family connection, but in general you should not shy away from recruiters. A good recruiter can get your foot in the door and have opportunities that you might not know about.

I don't think this will bring in a liveable income, but it's work experience and a resume booster.

I would suggest that you get some sort of part time job to make sure that you have your loans covered at least since you just graduated college, assuming you are living with parents.

Otherwise, keep plugging away and keep creating shit you are young and have nothing to lose.

I am well schooled in foreign policy, political and economic strategy. People have to realize that at this point in time China can't have completely free informational channels, as we enjoy here in America.

You have millions of rural uneducated people in china that if give the right motivation can destabalize the country. To prevent that destabalization from happening you have to control informational channels and the information being delivered on it, especially when China is going through a transitional period.

At the macro level on of the biggest threats to globalization is the integration of China into the global system.

I read a lot of books on foreign policy, war and politics. I also do a lot of boxing. I believe in being challenged intellectually and physically. Also, I love human competition in terms of doing it and the history of it.

So google dominates intent driven advertising and facebook is trying to be the king of intent building advertising.

Facebook's competitive advantage is its horde of demographic information that they have on individual people.

I am somewhat undecided on how successful facebook will be at this. They have the information to see what will influence you, but I don't think they have a tool that will allow you to ingest it into your brain.

For example, they may have information that says you like britney spears and that she can influence you, but their mechanism to get influencing messaging to you is through a banner ad for instance. The overall effect is uneffective because the tool (banner ad) is just straight up ignored by most people.

So the vehicles that exist in delivering advertising content online is just not effective and there needs to be a better way that needs to be created.

The initial results of such tools that facebook to build intent don;t look to be effective.

If you believe your company is that good then just show up at the office and ask for 5 minutes of time from one of the bloggers.

Make sure you are well prepared and that what you have to talk about is actually news worthy and interesting.

Just don't a fuck and go and do it you have nothing to lose.

CIA and the pentagon love thinkers and people with very analytical minds. The pentagon's job is to dream up the future of the world and war and prepare for it.

So as an analyst or grand strategist you would be tasked with studying how such and such technology will change global politcal and economic rule sets, etc and what america needs to do to take advantage of it or prepare for it. You can also be a person that researches the latest and greatest technology.

These military agencies were the people who developed the initial need for technological innovations like the internet and the database.

Also, you would go out talk to all these opinion leaders and participate in various think tanks with super smart people and create research that can influence the entire history of the world if compelling enough.

It is a lot of fun if you really want to contribute to the world and make a difference.

That would be a good move, it would enrich the office apps they already have. Its not hard to create the features that yammer offers and google will whoop them on distribution alone.

if this job entails working with the militaries technology (servers, networks, etc) you should take it. A lot of the very smart network engineers and programmers that I have met have worked in military; Iraq and DOD.

You are going to be dealing with some high tech environments in Iraq and will get good experience and money in the process.

this just goes to show that social engineering is the most important part of being a hacker. That is a good payout 4 million in one day for a simple phishing site.

I know stealing is wrong, but I am impressed with their execution.

It also enforces the belief that network security is more dependent now on educating the people that use it.

Yes I have an app idea in mind that will help the newspaper industry out.

Apple and Mcgraw Hill need each other. Mcgraw needs the distribution platform and hardware and Apple needs the content. They will forgive and forget what happened.