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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Mark Cuban's Stimulus Plan


So last week Mark Cuban posted this blog, http://blogmaverick.com/2009/02/09/the-mark-cuban-stimulus-plan-open-source-funding/

In short, he will fund your business if you follow rules A, B, and C.

Here is the follow up article.

http://blogmaverick.com/2009/02/17/the-stimulus-plan-update/


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This is an amazing endeavor by a great entrepreneur. Keep it up Mark!

Friday, February 13, 2009

25 to life...

So this is an ongoing thing on facebook and I decided to post it on my blog. Maybe you should too?!

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1. My middle name comes from my Grandma Pracilla "princess" Cabrera?

2. My family has shown me the world, literally... I have 5-6 Potential sets of different grand parents... THey come from the Phillipines, Germany, Florida, Massachussetts, California, and I still have yet to find more. Plus the majority loves having children, so we multiply by the day.

3. I love the internet. It was 1990 when my dad set the computer up with an internet connection at my grandma's house in LA. It was called Imagination Networks, an online platform where you could connect with people around the world. It was kinda like the sims/facebook retro style. Yahoo was around and I could search on EVERYTHING. mIRC was my playground of thinking I was in the movie 'hackers'.

4. i don't know what I beleive in

5. I wish to speak another language, but I have yet to understand English

6. Nine Inch Nails & Marilyn Manson were my favorite groups in 7th grade.

7. i have 2 dads and it's really dope

8. I would do ANYTHING for my friends and family. I think they know this.

9. Music can last a lifetime, but a lifestyme can not last music.

10. Several nick names. they all kinda have their own charachter that i'm going to put in a movie someday. chedda bouch, mongoose, boucher, waterboy, zcoolx, booger boucher, chinkabator, bouch, and i'm sure there's a couple more.

11. entrepreneur since birth. I sold pogs in 3rd - 5th grade, flipped baseball cards 4th - 6th, sold hemp clothes in school and made custom t-shirts for rival HS games, and I made sure that everyone at La Salle could come out to the bars!!!!! ;)

12. In college I played this game Counter-Strike for over 18 hours straight at one point. I didn't leave the room for over 48 hours.

13. Work/Living the NYC nightlife for 6 months was a pretty interesting gig. A Promoters movie would be a great story.

14. was my sports # in HS & College.

15. I mean well in 99% of the things I do. Sometimes you have that animal instinct. haha.

16. I see the big picture, then I break it down into the peices, then I realize there are so many peices, so I become confused.

17. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic, so I've been told.

18. Late bloomer, for sure.

19. Instead of buying a new car when an rewarded for my hard work, I'm gonna pimp out my green audi a6 and throw an eco-engine in there with some black hemp-platic 19's and organic plastic tires. hollla back.

20. It is so amazing to realize that you know so much, then at the same time realize that you know nothing.

21. Learning & collaborating are my full intentions

22. world peace anyone? love the earth.

23. yay obama! but thats over.. it's time for US to lead. He got our spirits up, his job is done. Do your job as a citizen and find out how you can help your local PEOPLE to make the change YOU want. That is the only way to change whats really going on. Join your COMMUNITY.

24.I wish I did everything I said. Sooner than later and more each day.

25. I enjoyed that.

26. i get red when I drink.

27. i fell off a boat in the sumer of 2006 and was saved.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

the dot org




Just what I imagined. I took a leap and just typed in www.google.org to see what would happen. I was quite surprised, but not at all. It is amazing what they are doing. Check it out yourself.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

The WWW & UGC!

The world wide web & user-generated content.  holy shmiz-oakes! 

There has been a shift in the techtonic plates of the Inter-world wide web.  The users are starting to breed creativity through sharing and collaboration.  Here are some examples of my favorite UGC videos.  Enjoy!






Buttergame Edit from will blonna on Vimeo.


Stronger Revisited from Kanye West on Vimeo.

Friday, February 6, 2009

You thought facebook was creepy?



This is stalkbook 2.0. aka Google Latitude.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

http://ping.fm/ksFP2

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Facebook & Poking




I planned to write this much earlier, but Jeff Pulver happened to inspire me before I could myself. Thanks Jeff!

It is not necessarily a generational gap that define the perception and conception of the poke. I have found it more of a social thing like you say.

The spring of 2004 is when I opened my facebook account because La Salle was not an influencer in this future bandwaggon. When you looked at everyones profile there was always this poke option, which obviously for the college demographic was a way to FLIRT or JOKE with your friends & associates, especially since at that time you could only look at people in your own network.

I felt like this was the prequel to an internet conversation that you were too embarrassed to engage, thus allowing the 'pokee' to qualify you as 'whatever' would engage them to you.

After I graduated and Facebook opened up to the WORLD, then this poking feature seemed to make much more sense. I was opened to engage with people without even having to say a word.

Unfortunately, we do live in a very homophobic society, so poking males in my personal opinion would not work because there is a perception to this tactic. On the other hand, poking a professional woman could come off as inappropriate like you are trying to hit on this educated woman, instantaneously tarnishing the potential relationship.

Anyhow, I feel version 1.0 of poking will step up. Twitter has the nudge, though I have not heard much about it or even used it. I will still continue to grow my poking skills this 09'. GOod luck!