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I'm finding more open minded models out there lately. Specifically, I see a lot of people giving away high quality media through social networks, etc. and creatively finding ways to monetize their work (sometimes just rehashing very old models, like live performance and advertising). It seems they "get it," in a way that big Hollywood and old-school Music Industry types are reluctant to accept.
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Submitted by jasonn on June 4, 2008 - 11:36am.
Some websites about prepping for a long run.
As I contemplated the universe and it's amazing and awesome size and power, it dawned on me. The universe that contains uncountable stars filled with gas and gravity so immense that it literally fuses the atoms of hydrogen together to create heat we can barely fathom, the universe that sends nutrient rich comets with precious metals racing across the galaxies at seemingly random, yet amazingly predictable patterns, this universe of power, grace, beauty, and beaming with life can't even contain its own power and wealth - we know it extends into the void to increase what we know as existence constantly. Oil may be limited on this planet, but the vastness and bigness of the materials, including things like methane gas contained in comets that we'll one day mine for resources, are immeasurable. This universe doesn't hold it thievery for us to take our serving, as big as we like. There is no limit to these resources. And, the God that created this universe didn't mean for us to live a small, limited existence either.
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Submitted by jasonn on April 21, 2008 - 6:14am.
Business owners buy books. We sometimes pay too much and often buy books we don't read. I'm in a new phase I call wise. I don't like wasting money on things I can get elsewhere either cheaper or free.
Acting on advice in a podcast I listened to tonight, I am reading a book by Amar Bhidé called The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses. Although Amazon has several copies available through used retailers, from his website, completely free.
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Submitted by jasonn on January 5, 2008 - 3:30am.
"In addition to seeking the removal of their products from the
marketplace, we will be going after sizable monetary damages.
And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds
to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent
reform (in specific, The Software Freedom Law Center and the
Peer to Patent initiative), and to the legal defense of free
software innovators. We will continue to fund the aggressive
reexamination of spurious patents used against the community
(which we've been doing behind the scenes on behalf of several
open source innovators). Whatever's left over will fuel a
venture fund fostering innovation in the free software
community."
Wow, Sun is on a litigation and public relations warpath again.
Last time they focussed on Microsoft, won the suit, lost big time
in their market cap because they were perceived by investors as
they perceived the game themselves, to be playing in the small
(personal style) server space instead of the big iron business,
where they were once the heavy weights.
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Submitted by jasonn on October 27, 2007 - 6:18pm.
After considering the cost, hassles, and other factors (and keeping in mind my dislike of big bloated companies), I settled on one of two options. There's a lot of small and startup SSL third party verification companies. Let's start off with a clear explanation of what an SSL certificate is, what it does, and why you would (or wouldn't) pay someone for it.
- First, an SSL certificate doesn't require a third party, a purchase, or anything other than the technology standards set forth for the protocol.
- The SSL protocol is simply a set of parameters to connect a public key with a private key to secure a connection from point A to point B (usually a PC to a website) for the purpose of encrypting the data passed from point A to point B and visa versa. You can sign it yourself or have a third party verify it so the person at the PC feels more confident that the SSL connection is legit - but the third party doesn't make the server or the company that owns the server more legitimate, nor does it mean the data is more secure or safe.
- Since browsers have error messages that are designed to scare people when the website's SSL certificate isn't verified or "signed" by an approved third party SSL issuer, it's smart for the business owner to pay the trust tax and use some big third party verifier's certificate regardless of its meaninglessness.
- The FUD is cranking up with different colors in Internet Explorer (Microsoft's browser) to force commercial websites to use the more expensive "more trusted" certificates where the third party issuer claims to investigate the validity of the website owners, whatever that is worth is yet to be seen.
- For now, the cheaper entry level SSL certificates issued by third party issuers seem to do the trick for most users, since they cause no scary messages in the major web browsers.
- Not all SSL certificate issuers are created equal, and big expense doesn't equal easy interfacing, just big money.
Thawte vs. RapidSSL
If you have less than 3 days to launch an SSL cert, using Thawte can be a problem. I've had certs take as long as 4 days to show up using Thawte. RapidSSL gives me a cert in 10 minutes.
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Submitted by jasonn on August 23, 2007 - 8:13am.
I think they are a bad investment for many situations. They are expensive and never solve any emergency problems. You only come out ahead in a total system failure where environment or human error didn't cause the problem. So, power surges, lightening, accidents, etc. are uncovered. Hard drives, cards, or even a processor failure are almost always cheaper than the warranty. That's why they sell them.
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Submitted by jasonn on August 23, 2007 - 3:42am.
I found Good Magazine while waiting on my daughter's lightening delayed plane to dock and let her off at the Birmingham (AL) Airport. Airport reading material usually reflects an odd coupling of mindless pop-culture dribble and cutting edge, thought provoking periodicals. I picked up this periodical because the cover caught my attention - an AK-47 sketch in black on an orange background with "GOOD" in big bold block letters at the top. I thought "yeah, that's a good design."
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Submitted by jasonn on August 19, 2007 - 2:20pm.
People who know me have heard my commentary on the first internet market wave (of which I was a part), the second wave (which is happening right now), and the third market wave which is the profit wave. Dotcom businesses were launched in the 90s to gain users, and the valuation was based on the innate value of users and not revenues. This is why so many internet businesses were valued well in the stock market and failed to generate real profits.
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Submitted by jasonn on May 16, 2007 - 3:27pm.
Motiono is being pushed via spam on YouTube accounts. It may be the company, may not, but the result is some conversion (yes, spam still works) and anger. Check out this anti-motiono.com rant
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Submitted by jasonn on May 15, 2007 - 2:39pm.
