Last weekend my wife and were guests with a friend who is a barrister, and on the way to becoming a judge, all being well. We were talking about the mobile devices that we each had. He does not have one. No iPhone, no iPad, no Blackberry – not even a good old fashioned mobile [...]
Pretty much everyone that I meet has a pet project that they want to take to market, or knows someone who has one. But almost invariably when the discussion turns to what needs to be done, the person at the center of the play – the entrepreneur if you will – has a misconception about [...]
I read a report last night about a new Internet service called Chatroulette. It is a video chat room, where you get hooked up randomly to people and get to do what you do with people who you meet randomly, I suppose… According to the writer of the article there is a lot of full [...]
Most people in this world are regulated by their immediate needs and the stimuli that they receive from the media around them. They go to work to make enough money to pay for food, shelter, and sex – living examples of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. And media is so pervasive that we rely on it [...]
From the “The Biggest Trump Card Ever” Department. I like growing Bonsai plants, I like buying bonsai plants and I love visiting Bonsai nurseries to view other peoples representations of miniature trees. I prefer to visit those nurseries that are grouped. In other words, to obtain the maximum viewing perspective bang for my buck, [...]
I had an interesting conference call earlier today with several people in the US who are all in the music industry. I can't say who they are, since we are under NDA. They are raising money for a new venture in music. I am providing some advice on the business plan. I offered some advice [...]
Man is a competitive member of the animal kingdom. Our nature is to compete with one another for food, shelter, mates and attention. Attention? Well yes, the more attention you get the better your prospects of : Obtaining a mate and earning money. So Koltai, the attention seekers are the most likely candidates [...]
The Disagreement about Blogs There are two point two new Blog sites created for every second of every day of the year. (around 175,000 per day.) The blogosphere doubles every 236 days! Presently, there are around 77 million blogs,It has been predicted that within three years, 50% of all content online will be user-generated. [...]
Earlier this year we blogged about the fact that Pornography appeared to be decreasing on the internet due to the wide variety of other content available via the P2P networks. The other day we blogged about Facebook games as being an escape from the doom and gloom of the Global economy. Historically, there [...]
Errata: It's been pointed out to me that Facebook just passed the three hundred million user mark and not the four hundred million. – Which obviously indicates early signs of dementia perhaps, on my part. – Hat-tip to David Goldstein from Link. In Australia, the formation of a credit union can be organised with 500 [...]