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The stuff reality is made of..

September 30, 2010

It came true! They actually implemented it. I had that idea two months ago! I have started to see a number of my ideas turn into real products, and services. Now there is no reason to believe that I had any part to play in the creation of these things, but it still feels good [...]

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My Consumer Manifesto

July 28, 2010

Hello World. I am here today to pitch you my idea, and I am going to talk to you as a consumer. The thing I never thought that I would want to be… until I realized that I could have it the way I wanted. We can change the game. Like you, I am sick [...]

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Search William Roth on Google and you can learn all about the late Senator from Delaware, whom the Roth IRA is named after. The problem is that William Roth is my name too – and I don’t show up until page 2, or Goo. People in social media need to have a front page presence [...]

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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. Basically it boils down a webpage to it’s elements, like text and title, and removes all the unneccesary fat, like pictures and ads. Then an RSS reader like Google Reader takes the pages whose RSS feeds you have subscribed to, and it searches for new content. Every time you visit your Google Reader you will see new content, like new job listings in your search queary, pour in like they were emails.

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The Search Box Confessional

November 12, 2009

“Someone once told me that there is nowhere we are more honest than the search box. ” Check out this blog article by Ben Casnocha.

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Microsoft recently launched Bing, a search rival to Google, making people wonder whether it’s worth it to make the switch. Putting lots of dollars into advertising and a mega “chess move” of a deal with yahoo, Microsoft hopes Bing will cut a large chunk out of Google’s search dominance. Should I use Bing? How do [...]

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