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How-to: Write an Engaging Title

Posted in Writing

Originally posted 2011-08-29 16:47:21. Although your cover can sell your book, the title is right there with it. Writer Katie Ganshert provides three quick tips on producing interesting, engaging titles: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/... In short, A title should represent the story, add intrigue and, most importantly, "it has to sound good." From In the Mind of Jason [...]

Cracking the Secrets to Raising Money

Posted in Business

Originally posted 2011-07-19 13:10:45. Although there are lots of different thoughts on what investors look for in their opportunities, the article below, posted by ReadWriteStart, does a great job of summarizing a recent presentation by Jeff Clavier, a well known investor: http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/201... A great quote from the article: How does Clavier evaluate the startups that [...]

Solving the Challenges for Personal Media

Posted in CloudHypothesis

Originally posted 2011-06-30 13:29:06. We all have personal media: pictures, videos, music, documents. And the amount we have is growing. As I wrote about in a previous post, I believe the cloud will be a great solution to help us make that personal media available anywhere and anytime. But there are challenges inherent in that [...]

New Photo Gallery: Americana

Posted in PersonalPhoto

Originally posted 2011-07-11 14:26:42. I recently created and populated a new gallery on my photo webite, photos.jasonthibeault.com: http://photos.jasonthibeault.com/port... This new category was spurred by a visit to Heber, AZ for the 2011 4th of July holiday during which we watched the Heber 4th of July parade. What was remarkable about this parade was that it [...]

Is the Writing on the Wall?

Posted in Cloud

Originally posted 2011-08-09 13:01:16. When Netflix enabled streaming, people started whispering about the "death of cable." And when Google launched GoogleTV with Logitech, those whispers got a little louder. "Who," people asked, "wants to pay exorbitant cable or satellite rates when all of the TV is on the Web for cheaper?" Well, cable as fired [...]

Visions of Undersea Cables

Posted in KnowledgeScience

Originally posted 2011-09-26 14:16:07. May not seem like much but this interactive map of trans-atlantic cables enabling the global Internet is pretty cool: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ Now just use your imagination a little and think about the process to not only lay this cable but fix it. Puts our global Internet into a much different perspective. Almost [...]

Wetware 0.5

Posted in PhilosophyTechnology

Originally posted 2011-07-14 08:46:21. If you ever want to say, "I was there the day we started down the path of becoming the Borg," you have no further than to look at Jawbone's latest product, UP: http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/13/hosa... As the CEO says, this is a pretty big departure from their current audio-based product set (you may [...]

Are You Always On?

Posted in CloudHypothesisPhilosophy

Originally posted 2011-07-10 09:05:07. GigaOm recently produced a fantastic video interview series with John Hagel, the co-chairman of Deloitte's think tank, The Center for the Edge. http://gigaom.com/2011/07/10/the-futu... There is a lot of information in these videos and a bit of postulation about what the Internet means for modern businesses. Two points in particular I want [...]

The Need for Developer Cloud Resources

Posted in ProgrammingReview

Originally posted 2011-07-11 11:39:57. I recently came across a cool new service called FluxFlex: https://www.fluxflex.com/about Although other cloud provides enable developer support (and there are specific providers, like EngineYard, that hook with GitHub) this is the first I've seen with an approach to deploying standard apps and aimed at a target market of "casual personal [...]

Photo: The Invasion Is Upon Us!

Posted in Photo

Originally posted 2011-07-27 11:57:49. NatGeo has an amazing photo of an unlikely invader, silhouetted against a burning sky. Sometimes, it's the littlest creatures that spark in us the greatest fright. http://photography.nationalgeographic... From In the Mind of Jason Thibeault, post Photo: The Invasion Is Upon Us!