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Four of my friends have teamed up and started blogging at EarlyStager.com, and you should definitely subscribe. One of their first posts is the EarlyStager Approval Matrix: A Start-Up Taste Barometer and its great. Congratulations to @bethferreira, @emilykhickey, @lexjuneja, and @sarahtavel on the launch – I am looking forward to what comes next!

I found out about the video below from Andrew Parker which was created from Dan Pink’s talk which illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. I invested 10 minutes at Andrew’s suggestion and you should too.  Great stuff.

A huge change happened to the Internet last month, and I bet you didn’t notice. …one of the biggest events in the history of the Internet took place; non-Latin top-level domains went live in the DNS root zone. In plain English, you can now type the whole of a domain name in Arabic script. Not [...]

I have been dealing with my own housing\credit crisis for the past 2.5 years but in a very different way than most people facing similar issues. Unfortunately my Mother passed away in January 2008 and I inherited her home, newly mortgaged in 2007 at the peak of the predatory lending and poor loan approval time. [...]

We now live in an age where you can be super connected to people you do not see or speak to everyday. This has been made possible by the ubiquity of social networks, and mass adoption. Everyone is not online, nor on a social network – but we are getting there. For those of us [...]

Working at Foursquare I am constantly thinking about how game mechanics influence real life. I recently rented a car and chose a Toyota Prius, a hybrid car, for environmental and financial reasons but also to experiment with the “game” you play with the car while driving. You see, the Prius actually has an optimized way [...]

Should you build on someone else’s platform? (OPP) There are pros and cons to each choice, but in the interest of framing my own thoughts about platforms I decided to write in favor of building on OPP (other peoples platforms) The strongest case in favor of building on someone else’s platform is synonymous with building [...]